Establish strong relationships with the assigned brand/region Xco and Divisional LT level , internal business stakeholders; building a strong understanding of the brand/regions strategic business direction, requirements and priorities and combining that with BI to build category strategies to drive effective management of Flutters 3rd party spend.
Collaborate with brand/regional Sourcing teams to develop and implement comprehensive sourcing strategies for key spend categories to achieve cost reductions, supply assurance, innovation and value creation.
Support ongoing review of strategies with stakeholders and maintain strategy packs and socialisation of target delivery / updates with global procurement colleagues.
Partner our PBMI team to conduct market analysis, supplier benchmarking and spend analysis to inform category strategies.
Drive initiatives to achieve cost savings targets, including leveraging economies of scale, optimising sourcing channels, utilising our Sourcing tools such as Coupa and SIM.ON.
Align with our Supplier Management and Risk teams to identify critical suppliers and support strategies for risk mitigation, for local/regional partnerships and core suppliers for key categories for acquisitions.
Act as a “trusted advisor” to Senior Flutter Brand leaders in terms of category strategy and spend management.
Requirements
Significant experience of strategic sourcing /risk/supplier management role , ideally within a multinational corporation.
Proven ability to capture, prepare and deliver Category Strategies to ExCo and key internal leaders.
The ability to manage up and down the chain in a large complex organisation.
In-depth knowledge/ experience in best-in-class procurement practices (category management, spend and data analytics, bench-marking , RFX, end to end contract management , etc.).
Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder influencing skills.
Strong experience assessing opportunity and concisely explaining complex issues to key business owners.
Extremely customer-focused and takes the time to understand the needs of the business.
Experienced in working in a large, global, federal organisation.
Strong analytical skills including the ability to quickly analyse , distil and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data and lead a team specialising in this space.
Passionate self-starter with the highest level of integrity and ethics.
Tech Stack
Flutter
Benefits
Bonus scheme
Uncapped holiday allowance
Enhanced pension scheme
Private healthcare
Life assurance
Income protection
Hybrid working
£/€1,000 annual self-development learning fund
Invest via the Flutters Sharesave Scheme
Paid volunteering days
Enhanced parental leave
Wellbeing fund (£/€250 a year)
Recognition programs
Electric car scheme, gym membership, discounts, vouchers and much more!