Sourcing Manager (Retail IT Transformation)

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Job Title: Sourcing Manager (Retail IT Transformation)

Location: Bristol, Birmingham, Edinburgh or Halifax

Salary: £57,546 - £63,490

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office.

About us

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

About this opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to get involved in sourcing IT solutions which have a real impact on helping LBG's customers. Consumer Lending encompasses Homes, Loans, Embedded Finance, Transport and Enterprise Risk. They view our team as integral to their success in sourcing market leading technical solutions for their platforms.

We're looking for a professional with strong commercial acumen, robust knowledge of sourcing processes and effective commercial and contract negotiation skills.

We actively encourage and support personal development to enable each colleague to become a trusted adviser providing the business an end-to-end Souring service managing all aspects of spend relating to that platform across a multitude of suppliers.

What you'll do

• Developing strong working relationships across stakeholder communities.

• Contributing to the development of category strategies, delivering specific initiatives to drive the effective supply of IT solutions to LBG and management of the cost base.

• Leading initiatives with clients that drive effective spend management through demand management, simplifying specifications and supplier consolidation.

• Leading Sourcing activities across the Group and category and create market competition to generate the best possible commercial outcomes as well as bringing innovation to the business.

• Supporting our group colleagues with their commercial needs through the delivery of great sourcing strategies to meet their technology goals

• Maintaining and effective and up to date understanding of the technology supply market, looking after critical supplier relationships to seek early access to new and innovative product developments, allowing you to build and deliver to support the Group's technology transformation

What you'll need

• Strong Sourcing process experience

• Experience in developing and delivering to sourcing plans and strategies and supporting business areas on projects with varying degrees of complexity.

• Being highly risk conscious and appreciation of all aspects of operational, commercial and contractual risks

• Excellent negotiation, communication and influencing skills

• Contract management experience

• Strong analytical skills

• Commercial acumen

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in/all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.