1st Executive are mandated with a well known global financial services organisation, who are going through a period of growth and acquisition. We're specifically looking for someone to take ownership of all things procurement and sourcing. Mainly aligned to professional services and HR/Recruitment, consultancy spend areas.

Duties would include:

• Leading the execution and supporting the development of Category-based sourcing processes for assessing and fulfilling current and future sourcing needs
• Managing complex sourcing deals, driving the supplier selection and negotiation process for key sourcing events. Guiding the execution of strategy for all Tier 1 category spend
• Leading the development of annual and medium-term strategic plans, in collaboration with clients and colleagues, for all new sourcing projects
• Executing strategies to extract supply-side savings and manage demand-side consumption in order to lower the Bank's Total Cost of Ownership for external spend as it relates to the specified category
• Highlighting operational, regulatory and other risks to the Head of Procurement
• Leading the implementation of innovative business change solutions