Category Lead - London, United Kingdom - HSBC

HSBC
HSBC
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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Some careers are more impactful than others.


If you're looking for a career where you will be respected as an individual and valued for the contributions you make, join HSBC and discover how diversity drives our success.

Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.


As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package.

This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.


Role Purpose:


The Category Lead is accountable for strategy and planning for a Sourcing Category within Procurement, to deliver competitive advantage for HSBC through lifecycle value generation, demand management and innovation by bringing best in class people, processes and tools together to enable optimal commercial outcomes for the category at local, regional and global levels in their spend with suppliers.


The role holder will demonstrate deep category knowledge to create and continually review robust and forward-looking category plans and strategies that use the full range of supply and demand-side levers and will seek to identify new sourcing opportunities, assessing their relevance and potential value to the organisation.


Your responsibilities will include:

  • Work closely with the Global Head of Workforce Sourcing and other Category Leads to deliver against the identified portfolio of initiatives.
  • Ensures a robust governance process is embedded within source to contract practices
  • Manage our key strategic supplier relationships with the appointed HSBC
  • Monitors buying channel compliance, for the business/function with whom they own the Procurement relationship and drives corrective action as necessary, both individually and via the Categories resource pool
Requirements

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

  • Background in Consultancy and Non-Permanent Workforce.
  • Significant experience in leading, defining and executing complex transactions and deals across multiple categories of spend
  • The ability to manage senior stakeholders
  • Extensive knowledge of source to contract best practice gained across different industries and companies
  • A good understanding of post contractual activities including contract management and supplier relationship management
  • A robust understanding of the financial services industry, including key players, strategic requirements, and key risks facing financial services institutions
The base location for this role will be UK based with hybrid working

You'll achieve more when you join HSBC.


As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package.

This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.


At HSBC we look to enable our employees to better balance their work / life priorities and have the flexibility required to meet challenging needs as they progress through different life stages.

Where possible we will consider the following flexible working options:
part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, and working from home and staggered hours.


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Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.

HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism.

This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

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