Sourcing Specialist - London, United Kingdom - LegalAndGeneral

LegalAndGeneral

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Company Description

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes.

It's up to us in
L&G Group functions - which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas.

Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we're helping to improve our customers' lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description:

Your role at a glance
Would you like the opportunity to join an emerging Procurement Team in a FTSE 100 business?

Due to exciting transformation, we are pleased to announce an opportunity for a confident, ambitious, and pro-active individual, with some previous experience working in Procurement, to join our Procurement & Supplier Management team (GPSM) as the Sourcing Specialist.

In this varied role you'll undertake support for sourcing and associated activities on behalf of the company in accordance with policies, process, regulations, and risk appetite with the objective of ensuring value is maximised and risks are managed appropriately.

This will entail you working with stakeholders across GPSM and supporting sourcing and change activities as required.

This is fantastic opportunity for someone that is passionate about starting or advancing their career in Procurement.

The role offers a good amount of depth and variety, giving you the experience needed to really develop your career and skillset.

What you'll be doing

Planning and execution of allocated sourcing activities as required ensuring they are in accordance with policies and practices
Manage requisition queues and purchase order approvals including followup of queries/incorrect documentation to ensure all transaction are in accordance with policy
Support sourcing teams by undertaking spend analysis and evaluation with a view to identifying anomalous spend and potential opportunities in line with Group strategy
Producing project reports and other MI, in a timely and accurate manner, as required
Ensuring records are kept in accordance with requirements and expectations including but not limited to contract and supplier records and maintenance of the pipeline
Initial point of contact for new procurement enquiries and ensuring demand is captured appropriately, providing prompt, professional and courteous support to "how do I" enquiries from internal stakeholders
Carry out all Sourcing activity in line with the company's Consumer Duty accountability

Qualifications:

To be successful in this role you'll need excellent organisation skills. Having the experience and ability to prioritise a busy workload, and to work to deadlines will be essential.

As the function continues to develop, you'll have the ability to be flexible in a continuously changing environment, showcasing your adaptability and ability to work both independently and within a team.

Here's some of the experience that we'd love to see:

Previous experience working in a Procurement support or Contracts Governance position would be desirable
Deal confidently with issues that arise and resolve or escalate as appropriate. Seek proactive resolution and continuously suggest ways to improve existing processes and procedures
The ability to produce reports and presentations in a wellstructured way.
Data driven, numerate, and an ability to handle data analysis activity.
Can easily build and maintain relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
Take a proactive approach to coordinating activity, assisting peers and sharing knowledge and expertise.

Additional Information

When you commit to Legal & General, we'll commit to you too. That means we'll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you'll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, at least 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection.

You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice.

We're also proud to offer competitive family leave.

You'll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes.

And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we've grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands.

We're all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long