Facilities Management Sourcing Category Lead in Manchester

Hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join us as a Facilities Management Sourcing Category Lead at Barclays to optimise and address Barclays’ third‑party spend requirements. You will be responsible for the definition, development, and implementation of sourcing strategies across Facilities Management, including construction and capital projects suppliers, and will work closely with business stakeholders to deliver value through strategic sourcing, supplier optimisation, and effective buying channel development.

To be successful in this role you should have experience with:

• Strong Negotiation Skills – demonstrated experience leading end‑to‑end commercial negotiations, securing favourable contractual terms, managing risk, and balancing short‑term savings with long‑term strategic value.
• Commercial Acumen – strong understanding of cost drivers, pricing structures, and commercial levers, with the ability to identify opportunities for savings, cost avoidance, and long‑term value creation across Facilities Management (and ideally, capital projects) spend.
• Influencing Skills / Stakeholder Management – proven ability to engage, challenge, and influence stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership, ensuring alignment between procurement strategies and business objectives.
• Presentation and Communication – the ability to develop and deliver clear, compelling presentations to senior stakeholders, particularly when securing approval for commercial deals, sourcing strategies, and supplier selections.
• Stakeholder Management – experience building strong, trusted relationships across CRES, finance, legal, and external suppliers, acting as a key interface to ensure smooth execution of sourcing activities and ongoing supplier performance.
• Ability to multitask & manage multiple projects – capability to manage a broad portfolio of sourcing initiatives simultaneously, prioritising effectively while maintaining quality and meeting deadlines in a fast‑paced environment.

Additional highly valued skills may include:

• Analytical skills – the ability to interpret financial data, benchmark suppliers, and evaluate total cost of ownership (TCO) to support strategic sourcing decisions.
• Supplier Relationship Management – experience managing supplier performance, including KPIs, service reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring suppliers deliver against contractual commitments and drive innovation.
• Organisation and communication skills – strong planning and coordination skills, with the ability to manage sourcing timelines, track deliverables, and communicate progress clearly to stakeholders.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role can be based in Glasgow, Northampton, Knutsford or Manchester.

Purpose of the role To optimise and address Barclays 3rd party spend requirements, including the definition, development and implementation of approaches for relevant spend categories and requirements with close collaboration with the business and execution of strategic sourcing and buying channel development/optimisation.

Accountabilities

• Profile spend in category area and develop understanding of business strategy, requirements, cost levers and opportunities.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify sourcing needs, develop requests for proposal and ensure sourcing activities align to the bank’s needs and priorities.
• Plan and execute sourcing events including RFP/RFX, negotiations to best meet the business requirements for value, speed, compliance, risk.
• Monitor and guide controls and compliance requirements throughout the category and sourcing cycle from request to contract, including regulatory engagement, controls, audits and data quality.
• Develop, implement and operate policies and procedures for sourcing activities aligned to the policies, standards, relevant compliance and regulation.
• Identify and deliver change opportunities to improve effectiveness, control and efficiency of sourcing processes, including buying channel optimisation for relevant categories of spend.
• Identify industry trends and development related to sourcing and category management by attending conferences, participating in training, and conducting market research on techniques and tools.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets and policies; manage and maintain policies and processes; deliver continuous improvements and respond to breaches of policies and procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions.
• Lead specialists to influence operations, balancing short and long‑term goals while ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• For an individual contributor, act as a subject matter expert within your discipline, guide technical direction, lead collaborative multi‑year assignments, and coach less experienced specialists.
• Provide information influencing long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks, supporting the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Show comprehensive understanding of organisational functions to contribute to achieving business goals.
• Collaborate with other areas of work to keep pace with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives; conduct in‑depth analysis and interpretative thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt outcomes of extensive research in problem‑solving processes.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.