Head of Procurement and Strategic Sourcing

14 hours ago

Houston, Texas, United States Norton Rose Fulbright LLP Full time
Job Title: Head of Vendor Management and Procurement, Central Services

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to lead our Vendor Management and Procurement team in Central Services. As the Head of Vendor Management and Procurement, you will be responsible for managing our global and multi-regional suppliers, ensuring a consistent and standardized approach to all processes and policies implemented, and tools adopted.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead the strategic sourcing and procurement across a total spend of approximately $150M and growing.
  • Work closely with regional leads of the Vendor Management and/or Procurement teams to ensure a consistent and standardized approach to all processes and policies implemented, and tools adopted.
  • Innovate the direction of the function to ensure continued alignment to the strategic priorities of the firm and market standards (for example ESG).
  • Lead with vision in improving centralized procurement to be faster, more efficient, and have an increased element of automation.
  • Manage and maintain the structure of the function's processes and data, including Contract Database, Benefits Tracker, Work in Progress Tracker, Methodologies, Policies & Processes, Vendor Categorization & Governance Frameworks.
  • Work closely with C-suite management to highlight areas of improvement, business risk, and any performance issues with suppliers.
  • Work closely with a variety of senior stakeholders, including Finance, Legal, Data Protection, Security, and IT, to maintain adherence to standards in procuring goods and services for the firm.
  • Improve general reporting from the function.
  • Play an active role in the budgeting process both globally and across the five member firms.
  • Build insights to key strategic vendors to build NRF intelligence and develop supplier strategies.
  • Own the relationships for a mix of strategic and transactional suppliers, including their overall performance.
  • Adhere to agreed supplier governance and chair regular supplier relationship management governance meetings to ensure any supplier relationship, delivery, quality, or commercial issues are highlighted and resolved.
  • Manage against budget, including authorizing spend against that budget, tracking actual spend, and providing good financial control over commercial performance.
  • Understand the key cost drivers behind supplier invoices and review supplier invoices for accuracy (and approve/reject as appropriate) to ensure suppliers are billing accurately and in line with contract.
  • Drive supplier innovation, cost reduction, and performance improvement to maximize the value from supplier relationships over and above contractual commitments.
  • Manage supplier commercial issues and negotiate their settlement to avoid escalation of such commercial issues into legal dispute.
  • Own the negotiation of all contracts that are global and/or multi-regional.
  • Be the firm's contact person for any client audit requests in regard to third-party contracts.
Requirements:
  • 5+ years' experience of management of multi-million-dollar outsourced IT supplier relationships; within legal services or professional services organizations preferable but not essential.
  • A degree in commercial management or procurement would be beneficial.
  • Ability to build strong trusting relationships with business partners and suppliers.
  • Experience building collaborative environments, teaming cultures, and with engaging executives in the strategy development and financial management processes.
  • Demonstrated experience in problem-solving, consensus building, and negotiation.
  • Strong commercial awareness alongside risk management.
  • Knowledge of contract law and IT Service Delivery Management (ITIL) preferred but not essential.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, particularly data manipulation in Excel and presentation build in PowerPoint.
  • Experience of working in a global company and global capacity and the associated complexity on stakeholder management preferred but not essential.

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