Senior Sourcing Manager - Labour Services

Senior Sourcing Manager - Labour Services

Contract length: 6 Months

Location: Hybrid/London & Surrey

Department: Procurement

Job type: Contract

Your role

This is a senior position within our Sourcing team. You will be expected to build deep relationships with your business stakeholders and to use these relationships to develop, maintain and deliver category strategies for your business area. The role is a trusted advisor to the business, bringing deep prior experience and market insights to both strategic planning, and also project delivery. You will deliver your agreed strategies with the business, helping to continually innovate, mitigate risk and create efficiency

Key Responsibilities

• Developing your network of influence in the organisation, across your business stakeholders, Finance, Change, SRM and other important functions;
• Establishing category governance and introducing Tier 2 suppliers and preferred supplier lists;
• Partnering with senior stakeholders to build strong alignment and collaboration between our teams;
• Creating comprehensive category strategies covering short and mid-term targets, aligned to business objectives (including service delivery, value, efficiency & ESG);
• Taking personal accountability for category data (spend, risk, contract etc.) and using it to create insight and analysis to influence decision making;
• Delivering large global projects via cross-functional teams, from project identification through to contract execution;
• Making our ESG objectives real through our supply chain arrangements.

Experience and Qualifications

• Deep experience of category management within corporate property (facilities management, real estate, construction) and travel spend areas;
• The ability to work collaboratively, spanning organisational boundaries in a global firm, and to influence at a range of levels;
• Have developed and delivered comprehensive category strategies in partnership with key senior stakeholders;
• The ability to build collaborative relationships;
• Have a commercial and analytical mindset, and to articulate ideas via a range of means depending on the audience;
• Experience participating on company-wide savings programmes, educating and influencing stakeholders, while delivering transformational strategies.

Why Fidelity

Fidelity International offers investment solutions and services, and retirement expertise to more than 2.56 million customers around the world. As global leaders, operating in more than 25 locations and with $783.6 billion in total assets, they continually push the boundaries of technology to build an even stronger business.

Rewards and benefits

As well as the prestige of working for a global financial services player, you’ll work with some of the smartest tech, expanding your skills and building your experience. Also, as a contract employee of Randstad Sourceright, you’ll receive a wide range of financial and personal benefits. There’s enrolment in a pension plan (after 12 weeks on assignment) and holiday pay. You’ll also get 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme, designed to help you deal with any problems that could be affecting your home or work life.

Inclusion and diversity

Fidelity is proud of its achievements as an equal opportunities employer. They care deeply about creating a supportive place where all people feel valued and free to be themselves. A commitment to Diversity and Inclusion is not only right, it's critical for a healthy culture and leads to better business outcomes. That’s why Fidelity has an environment where all differences are welcomed and celebrated.

The Randstad companies are responsible for finding and contracting talent for project roles at Fidelity International. If you are selected for a role, you will be employed by a Randstad company, and will not be an employee of Fidelity International