Head of Global Vendor Management and Procurement

4 weeks ago


Houston, Texas, United States Norton Rose Fulbright LLP Full time
Job Summary

The Head of Global Vendor Management and Procurement will lead the strategic sourcing and procurement across a total spend of approximately $150M and growing. This role is responsible for managing the global and multi-regional suppliers, ensuring a consistent and standardized approach to all processes and policies implemented, and tools adopted.

Key Responsibilities

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 & maintain the structure of the function's processes and data including, but not limited to: 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; information must be collated in order to provide a holistic view of supplier performance to brief Norton Rose Fulbright stakeholders and as input to governance meetings
Adhere to agreed supplier governance / 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 to provide 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) in order to ensure suppliers are billing accurately and in line with contract
Drive supplier innovation, cost reduction and performance improvement in order 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

Team Management

The successful candidate will manage a team to:

Maintain supplier documentation including contract changes, reports, notices and relevant supporting materials are stored with controlled access
Drive actions, minutes, management pack preparation and associated execution from the vendor and internal governance forums
Model contracted charges including contract changes to provide accurate forecasts of spend, total cost of ownership, contract cost to complete, phasing of spend, build of detailed budgets
Manage end to end in-life contract changes for strategic suppliers in close collaboration with global and regional procurement teams as appropriate
Financial management of strategic suppliers managing indexation / foreign exchange variation, rate card validation and change

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have:

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 in particular 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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