Role: Interim Procurement Manager - Legal Services

Rate: £650 inside IR35

Location: Bristol, Halifax, or Edinburgh

Contract Length: End of 2023 likely extension

Client: FTSE 100 Bank

Key requirements:

This role requires an end to end procurement professional with significant experience on procuring legal services within large matrix organisations ideally in financial services.

Key Accountabilities:

• Sourcing manager would have projects they would be leading and own
• Major panel agreements - use firms to take them through the legal process
• Scan the market
• Speak with suppliers to see what plans are
• Market piece, helping with tender documents
• Once selected supplier, working through contracts
• Having a strong understanding of key contract terms
• Taking contracts through governance process
• Looking at requirements, advising lawyers of panels we have in place
• Supporting RFI
• Yield a cost reduction
• Day to day responsibilities can be quite variable - could be scanning market or working on complicated contract negotiation
• Managing risk of service
• Reviewing risk and security controls with firm
• Stakeholder management- meeting with legal community
• Being part of sourcing community- internal meetings. Part of a customer product team- meet with consultancy and customer product team