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VN-14215
Permanent
Hove
Competitive
2 December 2019
To strategically manage and optimise Procurement’s influence on marketing, print and postage external spend by developing effective stakeholder relationships and maintaining supply market expertise to drive best overall value for money and minimise supply chain risk.
We are recruiting for a Procurement Manager, category owner for - Marketing / Digital Coms, Print and postage Category. You will be strategically managing and optimising Procurement’s influence on marketing, print and postage external spend by developing effective stakeholder relationships and maintaining supply market expertise to drive best overall value for money and minimise supply chain risk.
In this role you will be responsible for....
- The ownership and management of marketing, digital coms procurement category/print and postage across the L&G Group
- You will be responsible for proactively managing and addressing spend via RFP`s, E Sourcing and Supplier / Market engagement, providing expert level market intelligence and best practice procurement principles to the federated marketing functions across the L&G Group.
- You will be business partnering with key stakeholders to develop robust internal relationships and develop accurate project pipeline.
- Provide thought leadership and sourcing strategy regarding category.
- Extensive Procurement experience with specific marketing procurement experience.
- Marketing / Digital Coms/ Print experience essential, including:
- Must be competent in multi-channel marketing disciplines including SEO, PPC, Media Buyer (TV, OOH, Sponsorship, Radio and Press), PR and Display Advertising);
- Knowledge of cold list data purchasing and GDPR regulations;
- Credible market knowledge of Postage, Print, Transactional and Acquisition direct mail.
- Must have category knowledge of Postage, Print, Transactional and Acquisition direct mail.
- Team player but able to work on own initiative
- Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills
- Robust stakeholder management skills
- MCIPS ideal but not essential
- Degree ideal but not essential
- Working knowledge of P2P/E Procurement tools
- Some team/people management skills ideal but not essential
- Ability to work in an Agile/Flexible manner
- Openness and ability to drive change
Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 27 days' holiday,private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.
For further information please contact Chloe McCauley, Resourcing Lead on chloe.mccauley@landg.com
About L&G
Working here is about being there for our customers; we’re available should the worst happen and we work together to enable social and financial equality across the UK. But it’s also about you –how you develop and what you can achieve. We’ll help your talent thrive in an environment where you’ll be supported to work flexibly and autonomously, sharing in our success and rewarded for a great performance with a generous benefits package.
About the business area
From HR and Digital teams through to Group Finance, Risk and Corporate Comms – our Group function support our businesses across the UK and abroad. Delivering essential services and activities that have a real impact on our business and our customers lives, we enable our people to do what they do best, contributing to delivering a great customer service, profitability and strategic growth.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or age.