Professional, Category Management

Job title:

Professional, Category Management

Company

Jones Lang LaSalle

Job description

JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way.Our people at JLL and JLL Technologies are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.Primary responsibilities:

• Provide governance and management of our tail spend solution.
• Accountable for the tail spend provider performance and providing necessary oversight to our provider of sourcing services – savings delivery, KPI, SLAs, etc.
• Accountable for delivering savings targets
• Engage internal clients to identify and implement recommended changes and enhancements to improve user experience
• Manage and mitigate risks associated with the tail spend provider relationship while strategically driving the vendor’s performance and identifying cost savings opportunities
• Oversee the transition of services to tail spend solution partner and ongoing relationship management
• Manage and mitigate risks associated with the tail spend solution while strategically driving the vendor’s performance and identifying cost savings opportunities
• Interface and influence various senior level stakeholders and leaders within the organization
• Maintain deep expertise of operations that are being outsourced to the tail spend provider and develop effective solutions to both operational and contractual problems
• Oversee the coordination and incorporation of category strategies and playbooks in partnership with Sourcing and Procurement teams and tail spend solution
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with internal clients and colleagues at all levels.
• Point of escalation and business / provider liaison for issues
• The Tail Spend Sourcing Program Manager will collaborate closely with the Category Strategy Leads, Site/Regional Procurement and Purchase-Pay-Pay Shared Services colleagues to enable an end-to-end procurement process

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in a technical major or business concentration
• 5 years indirect sourcing, procurement or category management
• Global / regional work experience across multiple category teams, site procurement and P2P shared services
• Highly proficient in analytics, negotiations, program management and communications

Preferred Experience:

• 5+ years of tail spend management expertise
• 5+ years working at a firm that provides Tail Spend solution
• Vendor management
• Procurement Operations / P2P
• MBA

Location

• UK/London
• Remote

Skills:

• Strong influencing and persuasion skills
• Effective change management skills
• Process Creation
• Supplier Management
• Vendor Negotiation
• Supplier Evaluation
• Contract Review
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Indirect Purchasing
• Global Sourcing
• Category Management
• Business Requirements
• Relationship management
• Business Process Outsourcing
• Tail Spend

Location:Remote –London, GBRIf this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table! If you require any changes to the application process, please email or call +44 (0)20 7493 4933 to contact one of our team members to discuss how to best support you throughout the process. Please note, the contact details provided are to discuss or request for adjustments to be made to the hiring process. Please direct any other general recruiting inquiries to our page
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Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:16:31 GMT

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