Global Procurement Manager - Foodservice: Equipment & Supplies
Job Introduction
We’re looking for an ambitious Global Procurement Manager, with a great technical knowledge and understanding of the Equipment & Supplies categories used within Foodservice to become part of our Global Supply Management (GSM) team. Our GSM team are responsible for negotiating, governing and reviewing over 160 global contracts, ensuring they meet our ambitious cost savings, efficiencies, innovation and sustainability targets.
As a Global Procurement Manager, you’ll develop and deliver category strategies for our organisation ensuring we meet our social and corporate responsibilities as part of our responsible sourcing model. You’ll use TCO methodology, increase our international coverage of the managed categories and drive efficiency, innovation and commercial competitiveness for the Group.
You’ll have exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, be highly collaborative and have the ability to build and navigate relationships across regions and cultures, adapting your approach to drive change and regional and global collaboration within your categories.
You’ll be stretched and challenged in this role to ensure you perform at the highest levels but with this comes substantial opportunity to develop and further your career in a global organisation.
You’ll work in a hybrid model, between office and home based when in the UK, with both national and international travel likely to make up part of your role.
Role Responsibility
- Design and implement category strategies to deliver business needs by co-building with Platforms (Subject Matter Experts), Sodexo Business Segments and regional buyers, for allocated categories. The goal, to significantly improve the commercial performance at a group and regional level, deliver category innovation and support sustainability targets whilst maintaining compliance to company policy and standards and mitigating risks.
- Engage the defined regions to actively collaborate in the development and deployment of category strategies and ongoing category management activities.
- Ensure an understanding of the differences and/or commonalities in the regional supply markets and business needs of the Sodexo segments is evident when developing category strategies and undertaking procurement / contracting activity. Able to demonstrate a good understanding of diverse and international contexts.
- Ensure procurement solutions consider Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in all procurement activity to maximise greatest value to Sodexo, whilst also mitigating risk.
- Lead cross functional sourcing group teams with joint accountability for technical and quality performance and manage all sourcing activity that emanates from Category Strategies.
- Ownership and delivery of assigned category, contracts and procurement initiatives to deliver financial targets and contribution to Supply Management budget (savings & revenues)
The Ideal Candidate
- Extensive procurement, buying or category management experience working in a multi-cultural and matrix environment is essential
- Knowledge and proven experience working within the Food Service, Hospitality or Retail industry and specifically within Equipment & Supplies categories
- Bachelor’s degree with CIPS / ISM or equivalent qualification
- Proven track record of delivering value and complex supplier negotiations, a commercial mindset and high levels of financial acumen
- Team player with excellent communication, collaboration and influencing skills
- Financial acumen and results orientated
- Category management and strategy development skills
- Project, planning and change management skills
- Process driven orientation and experience of working with cross functional teams and global stakeholders
About the Company
In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.
Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.
Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.
Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.
We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.
We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process
