Sourcing Manager

Role Overview

• Provide direction and oversight for sourcing strategies within the Digital & Talent Category, ensuring alignment with business goals and risk management frameworks.
• Support and guide the team on the major deals and help them drive value delivery.
• Drive an agile and innovative approach to supply market engagement.
• Lead negotiator on high value & complexity negotiations. Applies advanced negotiation techniques to consistently secure high-value outcomes.
• Resolve stalled negotiations and adapts strategies based on situational needs to increase supplier value.
• Ability to collaborate and build relationship with Senior partners like VP’s, SVP’s levels for major projects/engagements and deliver value.
• Act as a senior point of contact for key business collaborators, ensuring sourcing priorities are aligned with business needs and delivering significant value and risk mitigation.
• Driving sourcing excellence through deploying guidelines, providing a consistent experience, utilization of strong market intelligence and running world class bids that deliver significant value for the business and where applicable enables the business to buy quickly, easily & where it makes sense, independently.
• Ensure full compliance with Category Management Policy, S2C procurement controls, regional governance, contract templates, and Delegation of Authority requirements.
• Monitor and report on team performance using key metrics, including value delivery, cycle time, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Sourcing Team Leaders.
• Foster a high-performance culture focused on capability building, career development, and continuous improvement.
• Create and maintain a psychologically safe team environment where individuals feel respected, heard, and empowered to speak up, share ideas, and challenge constructively without fear of negative consequences.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in any subject area or higher
• Extensive experience in global procurement, strategic sourcing, also demonstrated experience in a leadership role.
• Proven experience in managing Talent (Corporate Services, People& Culture, Workforce, Mobility, etc) Categories.
• Proven track record of leading high-performing, multi-cultural global teams and delivering complex sourcing strategies.
• Proven experience with Strategic Sourcing, Complex Contract & Commercial negotiations and strong contract drafting skills.
• Strong commercial skill, negotiation expertise, and supplier relationship management skills.
• Experience working in a global, matrixed organization with cross-cultural teams.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior partners and drive strategic outcomes.

Benefits

• Different bonus opportunities based on performance
• wide range of cafeteria elements
• Life & health insurance
• medical care package
• Hybrid working arrangement aligned with team arrangements and business needs
• Opportunity to build up long term career path and develop your skills with wide range of learning options
• Celebrate in bp’s success. You may be eligible to join bp’s Global ShareMatch plan. This non-contractual benefit lets employees buy bp shares and receive matching shares, in line with plan rules
• Family friendly workplace e.g.: Extended parental leave, Mother-baby room
• Employees’ wellbeing programs e.g.: Employee Assistance Program, Company Recognition Program
• Possibility to join our social communities and networks
• Chill-out and collaboration spaces in our beautiful Budapest Agora and Szeged offices e.g.: Play Zones, Office massage, Sport and music equipment