Sourcing Business Partner – Nest Invest

Role Overview

The Sourcing Business Partner role is a trusted advisor to Nest Invest (NI), collaborating with this part of the business to provide early commercial and procurement advice and identify opportunities to create better value & opportunity for NI. The Sourcing Business Partner will manage and deliver pipelines of procurement activities and collaborate with other business partners across the organisation, ensuring procurement activity is delivered to meet business needs and is compliant with the relevant regulations.

The minimum criteria for this role are:

• Good understanding of Managing Public Money, and compliance with PCR 2015, PA 2023 and legal and regulatory requirements
• Extensive experience of commercial Business Partnering, acting as a trusted partner, providing strong strategic support to internal stakeholders
• Strong understanding of the investment management industry5
• Experience in complex, multi stakeholder environments, preferably financial services or asset management
• Strong commercial evaluation ability (pricing analysis, cost drivers, benchmarking)

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different. To make the most out of hybrid working we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

• hybrid of officeand home working(there will be anexpectationto attend the office, as required)
• reduce or vary working hours
• reduce or vary the days worked
• work from home (or a different location)
• work compressed hours
• job share

Directorate/Department Overview

The Finance Directorate, led by the Chief Financial Officer and their leadership team, is made up of two distinct teams:

• Finance
• Strategic Sourcing

This role would be responsible for delivering core activity within the Strategic Sourcing Team in support of sourcing & commercial activity carried out on behalf of Nest Invest. Nest Invest was established in 2019 and authorised as an Occupational Pension Scheme (OPS) firm by the FCA in 2020. OPS firms undertake investment management on behalf of a trustee or pension scheme and have the ability to manage more complex investment decisions and tasks in-house.

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, belief, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, socio economic background, sex, sexual orientation, religion or race or any other legally protected status.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

We are a level 2 Disability Confident Leader under the Disability Confident Scheme. As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we’re part of the guaranteed interview scheme.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.