Senior Manager, Business Services Procurement

**Senior Manager, Business Services Procurement**

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your experience to a world-class company that is market-leading for both content and technology? If yes, we are looking for you

Join our team Global Procurement manages and optimizes the third party spend of Thomson Reuters. Our mission is to partner with our stakeholders to acquire the right goods and services at best value and within an acceptable risk perimeter to drive our corporate objectives. We integrate and manage a highly complex network of products, services, processes, technologies and suppliers across all Thomson Reuters locations worldwide.

**About the Role**

In this opportunity as a **Senior Manager, Business Services Procurement** you will:

- Support category plans and sourcing strategies development containing a portfolio of key initiatives across the company.
- Deliver the key Procurement initiatives, achieving best value within acceptable risk.
- Contribute to the development of the annual pipeline of Procurement initiatives, integrating with the financial planning process.
- Contribute towards the development of initiatives aimed at optimizing cost, improving user experience, driving transparency / contract compliance and increasing efficiencies
- Rationalize the number of suppliers and reduce fragmentation in the spend base in order to simplify the supplier landscape and drive commercial efficiency.
- Support the implementation and development of the sourcing methodology to provide greater visibility and control of sourcing initiatives.
- Nurture relationships within Procurement and with customers through working collaboratively, understanding the requirements/priorities and providing a well-rounded advice in making spend decisions based on best-in-class practices.
- Provide feedback to stakeholders and management regarding status of projects and initiatives.
- Extend the reach of Procurement by exercising appropriate influence within project teams, customer groups, and peer groups.

**Key Deliverables**:

- Build, articulate and execute global Procurement roadmap for all categories in scope that builds the capabilities needed for long-term growth and sustainability including spend analysis, category management, sourcing methodology, tools and templates, policies and procedures and supplier relationship management.
- Robust category/spend profiles developed to support the development of an opportunity pipeline across different sub-categories aligned with the developed roadmap.
- Robust business cases developed for every sourcing initiative.
- Robust implementation plans (including approach to deal governance and approval) developed for every sourcing initiative.
- High-quality sourcing collateral developed at each stage of the sourcing lifecycle to facilitate informed decision-making amongst the stakeholder community.
- Significantly reduced third party risks with active risk management implemented for each sourcing initiative.
- Significant and sustainable annual reduction in Thomson Reuters cost-base, demonstrated using a robust savings methodology which is consistently applied and rigorously approved.
- Rationalization of supply base to drive spend with preferred suppliers and other development initiatives.

**About You**

You’re a fit for the role if your background includes:

- Credible knowledge and expertise across a wide range of Non-IT areas of spend, with significant experience in successfully developing and negotiating agreements within any value between $50K - $1M across geographies.
- 7-10 years of applicable experience across the HR Services Procurement value chain, operations, program management and sound understanding of applicable laws / regulations.
- Strong ability to clearly understand business needs, historic spend, construct of existing contracts, applicable buying practices, external market drivers to build an insightful profile for assigned spend
- Expert ability to understand the different cost drivers in the end-end value stream within Non-IT sub-categories, develop a TCO/TVO model and build applicable strategies to drive sustainable value.
- Excellent (external and internal) relationship management and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Experienced sourcing practitioner, with deal architecture and negotiation skills, understanding of best-practice sourcing methodology and a demonstrated track record of working ethically to achieve excellent outcomes.
- Knowledge of the sourcing marketplace and trends in the industry including the ability to assess the impact of change in the context of the sourcing strategy.
- Expert analytics and ability to develop coherent and high-quality sourcing collateral including business case, contract summaries, and RFx materials.
- Experience with Source to Pay tools such as Ariba / Fieldglass.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English).
- Experience of building strong relationships with senior business execut