Procurement Category Management

Procurement Category Manager

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If you’re looking for a career where you will be respected as an individual and valued for the contributions you make, join HSBC and discover how diversity drives our success. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

Role Purpose:

Digital Business Services (DBS) provides essential support for the bank through operations, technology, key central business services, and our worldwide network of Chief Operating Officers. DBS’s remit includes running customer operations, delivering innovative digital solutions for customers and colleagues, management of risk and controls, bank-wide change, and central services including procurement and real estate management. Our teams play a vital role in driving great experiences for customers and colleagues, and enabling the bank's strategy.

Global Procurement enables businesses and functions to maximize value and minimize risk from HSBC's annual USD15 billion external spend with suppliers. We do this by providing core services designed to help our business partners 'Buy, Pay and Manage' suppliers effectively.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing strategic direction for the procurement Goods and/or Services aligned to the Global Operations Category
• Leading complex sourcing events whichwill deliver increased value for money for HSBC
• Working with stakeholders to effectively manage vendor risk and drive vendor innovation.
• Ensuring maximum contractual protection for the business

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• Be able to support, guide and influence a wide range of senior stakeholders
• Perform data analysis and draw useful insights so as to inform important sourcing decisions
• Have experience of leading high value, strategic commercial negotiations
• Strong experience of executing complex sourcing events
• Understand and accurately capture business requests/stakeholder requirementsComprehensive experience of negotiating supplier contracts in challenging supply market environments
• Background in creating robust reports on progress against targets
• Be able to build quality knowledge of a given supply market and produce useful insights, therefore enabling comprehensive Category Plans to be put in place
• Project delivery experience

The base location for this role will be UK based with hybrid working

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HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme, and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please contact our Recruitment Helpdesk:

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Telephone: +44 2078328500.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism. This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.