Vendor Manager

**Please note that this role is open to applicants in both our GLASGOW & LONDON offices ***

SThree are delighted to announce that we're looking for a talented Vendor Manager to join our wonderful team!

The chosen candidate will support SThree's overall purpose to 'bring skilled people together to build the future'. In SThree's journey towards total spend transparency and more centralised spend control, this role holder will need to embrace new behaviours, processes and polices, achieving a balance between regional and group needs.

Responsibilities include monitoring vendors to ensure compliance with company policies, attending company meetings, and informing new vendors of their responsibilities. Additionally, to perform supplier audits to actively review and measure supplier compliance

About us

SThree is the global STEM-specialist talent partner that connects sought-after specialists in life sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics with innovative organisations across the world. We are the number one destination for talent in the best STEM markets: Recruiting highly skilled professionals and discovering life-changing jobs for the unsung heroes who will positively shape our future. Elevating expertise and energising progress for everyone.

Operating through a global house of specialist recruitment brands we know how to achieve the goals of STEM professionals seeking both permanent and contract work and understand the organisations who need them. The world is changing. And the people who change the world work with us.

What are the day-to-day tasks?

• Identify and manage key suppliers and take ownership for finding optimum solutions to drive relationships.
• Help deliver the Category Strategy through review and rationalisation of suppliers
• Ensure effective use of MI and reporting to drive required behaviours both internally and externally
• Understand contracts and make them part of the central Vendor management process
• Perform regular reviews of each contract to ensure they are fit for purpose
• Drive procurement best practise and obtain stakeholder & Supplier buy-in.
• Analyse and interpret MI to drive Continuous Improvement
• Work with suppliers to create a better working relationship in order to gain the maximum 'value add'
• Ensure effective supplier process, system integration and policy governance
• Involvement in key group forums to actively contribute and influence, understand general strategy and procurement needs in relations to supplier management and risk mitigation
• Carry out any other tasks as directed by the Global Procurement Director and Head of Procurement Operations
• Recommend appropriate remedies that can be taken with suppliers that may have committed breaches
• Support with rationalisation of supplier base across all category areas, specifically the primary category.
• Drive effective cross-functional use of the SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) tool
• Create and track supplier performance reports in collaboration with Category Leads

What skills and knowledge are we looking for?

• Able to demonstrate relevant procurement and supplier management experience
• Strong track record of adopting new processes and systems
• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) tools and principles
• Proven negotiation skills
• Ideally MCIPS, studying for CIPS or has an appropriate business qualification
• Degree education is an advantage

Benefits for our U.K. teams include:

• The choice to work flexibly from home and the office, in line with our hybrid working principles
• Bonus linked to company and personal performance
• Generous 28 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays
• Annual leave purchase scheme
• Five days paid Caregiver/Dependant leave per annum
• Five paid days off per year for volunteering
• Private health care, discounted dental insurance and health care cash back scheme
• Opportunity to participate in the company share scheme
• Access to a range of retail discounts and saving

What we stand for...

We're committed to ensuring for our colleagues, candidates and communities, that all processes are equitable, and everyone is treated with fairness and dignity where everyone belongs, is valued and is connected. If you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments in submitting your application, please let us know, and we'll be happy to help.

While SThree is committed to hybrid working and these roles will fall under this policy, it is important to note that for a successful and efficient delivery of the project there will be a requirement for extended attendance in the office in line with the hybrid working policy.

What we stand for..

We create community and deliver change that transforms the future for everyone. With this in mind, we're committed to ensuring for our colleagues, candidates and communities, that all processes are equitable and everyone is treated with fairness and dignity where everyone belongs, is valued and is connected.

If you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments in submitting your application, please let us know, and we'll be happy to help.