Commercial Procurement Manager - Finance in London

The role of the Commercial Procurement Manager - Finance involves repositioning the Commercial Procurement team to become a strategic enabler for the BBC, partnering with divisions across the group. The Finance function aims to be a trusted partner providing world-class financial insight that drives the BBC's mission and Value for All strategy, underpinned by four priorities:

• Trusted business partnering
• Data-driven insights and decision making
• Outstanding talent and capabilities
• Risk and control rigour

The Commercial Procurement Manager will partner with stakeholders to influence the appropriate sourcing approach by:

• Driving third-party commercial strategy whilst navigating risk.
• Operating independently while leading junior staff across a pipeline of defined category projects.
• Ensuring BBC standards are met and public procurement regulations are followed.
• Owning governance processes to ensure approval routes are navigated efficiently and effectively, resulting in the best outcome for the BBC.

Your Key Responsibilities & Impact:

• Developing and maintaining key stakeholder relationships, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.
• Preparing strategic presentations and reports for category stakeholders, providing data-driven insights and spend management recommendations.
• Delivering procurement projects against plans from initiation to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and budget.
• Identifying and mitigating project risks, escalating issues as necessary to senior management.
• Maintaining good relationships with key suppliers, ensuring compliance with organisational policies and ethical standards.
• Analysing market trends and data to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Developing and implementing strategic category and sourcing plans that align with business goals.
• Establishing processes to navigate approval and governance processes.
• Coordinating with internal category stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Monitoring and reporting on procurement performance metrics for continuous improvement.
• Conducting performance reviews and providing continual feedback to junior staff.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Ability to manage business process outsourcing contracts and associated contract management activities for financial services.
• Ability to negotiate commercial change and drive cost optimisation from financial service providers.
• Ability to manage a daily relationship independently with one of BBC's key strategic relationships.
• In-depth understanding of procurement processes in a public regulated environment.
• Relevant project management skills for successful end-to-end delivery of procurement projects.
• Significant interpersonal skills to develop and maintain relationships at all levels of the organisation.
• Experience in managing a commercial relationship with suppliers, including managing volumetrics and validation of complex billing.
• Ability to analyse data and apply it to market context and trends for actionable insights.
• Experience in procurement software and tools.
• Proven background of successfully delivering cost optimisation.

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge, and experience required for satisfactory performance. It is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.