Sourcing Delivery Procurement Manager

Manager, Sourcing Delivery Procurement

As a Manager Sourcing Delivery for Liberty Procurement Services (LPS), your primary responsibility will be to deliver sourcing activities for our customers, which ranges from driving sourcing processes (RFI, RFP, RFQ) to renegotiation of existing contracts and contracting. You are leading sourcing activities at one of our LPS customers (primarily for Liberty Central and Scale). Our ambition is to - over time - have you involved with different customers. The duration at one customer varies from 12 to 24 months. If needed, you might be deployed ad hoc on another customer.

As the Procurement categories LPS gets involved in varies per customer, this creates a dynamic environment for the Sourcing Manager as you can get involved in a wide variety of Procurement categories. A Manager Sourcing Delivery could be linked to a specific department at the customer (e.g., Technology, IT, Marketing, Contact Center) for a period of time or the remit could be more fluid and cut across different customer departments simultaneously.

As Manager Sourcing Delivery, you will work closely together with the Sourcing Strategy team. It is important to deliver your work with high quality, in an efficient manner, on time, while achieving the agreed annual savings targets. This role requires a can-do mentality, strong communication (both written and verbal), excellent interpersonal & stakeholder management, strong negotiation skills, and the ability to think out of the box as well as the ability to embed emerging technology in your day-to-day activities. The ideal candidate will be hard-working, motivated, open to working in a fast-paced, demanding environment, across different customers and countries. Prior experience in procurement is valued.

What You Will Be Involved In

• Sourcing delivery: Contribute to Category Strategy development and have a close collaboration with the LPS Category Intelligence team for the project/supplier that you are involved in.
• Tendering & Supplier selection: Finetune requirements with the internal customers and prepare the Request for Information/Request/Quotation documents in our online Sourcing tool. Lead the set-out tendering process ensuring an equal playing field for all suppliers involved amongst others by preparing an objective evaluation framework.
• Contracting: Bring together the outcome of your tendering process or renegotiations with existing suppliers in an agreement. This can vary from putting a Framework agreement in place for new suppliers or Statement of Work for existing suppliers.
• Procurement value recognition: Calculate the Procurement value delivered on your sourcing activities and supervise the result (e.g., price reduction, costs avoidance, TCO improvement) in line with applicable savings rules in the LPS system.
• Stakeholder management: Procurement work is people business, therefore you are encouraged to build a good relationship with internal customers to ensure a smooth sourcing process and optimize your results.
• Contract In-life management: Support internal customers when and where needed when the contract is live by supporting formal change requests or other changes with commercial implications. Continuously monitor contract renewal roadmap in order to allow ample time for sourcing activities to take place.

Knowledge & Experience

Preferred Education/Qualifications:

• Academic background (minimum Bachelor): preferably in business administration, or finance/procurement or equivalent experience
• Validated experience in procurement
• Preferably experience in an international/multi-country/service environment
• Demonstrated experience of working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment, with a strong focus on customer service

Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent communication and networking skills, relates effectively to people at all levels of the organization and with the supply base.
• Ability to deal well with ambiguity and excellent change management skills to drive improvement
• Can-do mentality, pragmatic, drives for excellent results.
• Sourcing experience (e.g., competitive bidding processes, running effective tendering processes, Negotiation Preparation, Negotiation Execution, Supplier Screening and Selection, Total Cost of Ownership Analysis) is valued
• Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data
• Proficiency in using procurement technology tools and systems, particularly supplier collaboration tools.
• Proficient (oral & written) in English and a confident negotiator

Who Are We?

We’re building Tomorrow’s Connections Today, bringing people together through the power of our technology. Liberty Global is a world leader in converged broadband, video and mobile communications and an active investor in cutting-edge infrastructure, content and technology ventures. With our investments in fibre-based and 5G networks, we play a vital role in society, currently providing over 85 million fixed and mobile connections and rolling out the next generation of products and services, while readying our networks for 10 Gbps and beyond.

We’re creating national champions, combining the best broadband and mobile networks under brands such as Virgin Media-02 in the UK, VodafoneZiggo in The Netherlands, Telenet in Belgium, Sunrise in Switzerland, Virgin Media in Ireland, and UPC in Slovakia. Liberty Global Ventures, our global investment arm, has a portfolio of more than 75 companies and funds across content, technology, and infrastructure, including strategic stakes in ITV, Univision, Plume, Lionsgate, and the Formula E racing series.

Our scale enables us to transfer knowledge and expertise across our operations and investments, creating a dynamic family of brands united in the pursuit of innovation and excellence. And we’re prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion in our workplace and communities, while reducing our impact on the environment. We are using technology as a force for good; for our people, our partners, and the planet.