Contract & Supplier Manager/Supply Chain Relationship Manager - Brighton/Hybrid working

Contract & Supplier Manager/Supply Chain Relationship Manager - Brighton/Hybrid working

£45,000 - £50,000 plus excellent benefits and flexible working (2 to 3 days/week in their Brighton office)

Contract & Supplier Manager - alternate job titles:

• Contract & Supplier Engagement Management Manager/Procurement Manager/Supply Chain Manager/Supplier Relationship Manager.

Notes on the Contract & Supplier Manager/Supply Chain Relationship Manager position:

• This role will be dealing with 15 corporate suppliers in the E&C space, delivering projects and ensuring projects are managed and delivered successfully - candidates will be able to demonstrate they have delivered supplier relationship management in a decent sized company at a strategic level.
• Currently a team of 4 within a larger procurement team of 21, innovative thinkers who are comfortable working across different areas and are able to get involved with things which may not sit in their remit day to day.

Job Overview for the Contract & Supplier Manager/Supply Chain Relationship Manager position:

• Their Business Plan 2025 to 2030 is their largest and most ambitious plan ever and is to enhance the health and wellbeing of their communities, protect and improve the environment and help to sustain the local economy.
• The plan includes their largest ever Capital Build Programme and the companies Supplier Engagement and Contract Management team plays a key role in delivery of supply chain strategy, raising the supply chain performance bar, fostering a collaborative supply chain network, enabling supplier innovation and continuous improvement and ensuring supply chain partners have a vested interest in our business plans.

As a Contract & Supplier Management Manager/Supply Chain Relationship Manager you will:

• Execute the companies Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) strategy in partnership with executive sponsors, business unit leads and supply chain partners.
• Drive engagement with suppliers and stakeholders from across the business.
• Coordinate and facilitate supply chain and stakeholder engagement forums and top to top engagements.
• Execute Voice of the Supplier surveys, generate insights to inform opportunities to improve supply chain partner relationships.
• Identify relationship issues and risks, develop and implement mitigation plans.
• Develop views of aggregated supply chain performance and use insights to raise the performance bar.

Requirements for the Contract & Supplier Manager/Supply Chain Relationship Manager position:

• You will be proficient in Supplier Management with the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation.
• You will have a real passion for SRM, able to evangelise the benefits of a structured SRM approach.
• You will be able to work with ambiguity, making decisions on incomplete information.
• You will be outcome delivery focused with a passion to develop own capability.
• You will be someone who can demonstrate the desire to push the boundaries and seek opportunities to improves ways of working, demonstrating e a relentless curiosity.

The Contract & Supplier Manager/Supply Chain Relationship Manager role operates in a multidisciplinary environment, the successful candidate must be able to demonstrate an aptitude for building and maintaining relationships to become confident and trusted by stakeholders both internal and external.

• This will require strong inter-personal and communication skills and a strong problem-solving analytical mindset.

Contract & Supplier Manager/Supply Chain Relationship Manager - Brighton/Hybrid working

£45,000 - £50,000 plus excellent benefits and flexible working (2 to 3 days/week in their Brighton office)