Sourcing Manager - Travel and Events

Job Title Sourcing Manager – Travel and Events
Salary: £57,456 - £63,940
Location: Edinburgh, Bristol, Birmingham or Halifax
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at one of the above locations.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone!

About the Role:

This is a unique opportunity to become the Sourcing Manager responsible for the Group's travel and meeting & events, where we support nearly every area of the Bank in their exciting transformation journeys. In today's dynamic environment, the way we purchase travel has never been more crucial. You'll navigate a challenging supply market while helping us reduce our carbon footprint. Every contract we develop directly impacts our customers, clients, and/or colleagues, and we take pride in ensuring they are at the heart of that change.

In Group Sourcing and Supplier Management (GS&SM), we play a pivotal role in delivering our vision by working closely with our supplier network to deliver value at pace and scale. It's a phenomenal time of change and transformation within the Group, and the GS&SM teams are at the heart of that change.

What You’ll Do:

• Sourcing Activities: Manage end-to-end sourcing activities and commercial negotiations, ensuring optimal solutions from customer, commercial, technology, and risk perspectives.

• Market Insight: Maintain an up-to-date understanding of the travel supply market and share that knowledge with your customers to help develop a strong future view.

• Value Delivery: Develop and nurture critical relationships with key partners , driving commercial thinking by challenging the status quo to deliver greater value.

• Contract Outcomes: Manage and deliver outcomes for a portfolio of contracts, coordinating activities related to major contracts within established procurement procedures and risk management systems

• Personal Development: Grow your capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities.

• Wider Category Knowledge: There may be opportunity to support other categories within the immediate team and develop a wider knowledge of the bank’s operations.

What you’ll need

• Sourcing Expertise: Experience of managing end-to-end sourcing activities and commercial negotiations,.
  Experience within the Travel industry would be beneficial but not essential.

• Relationship Builder: The ability and experience in developing and nurturing critical relationships with key partners, driving commercial thinking by challenging the status quo to deliver greater value. As part of our annual hotel programme, you'll be required to meet with account managers from hotel groups to promote LBG as a strategic customer.

• Contract Management: Experience in managing and delivering outcomes for a portfolio of contracts, coordinating activities related to major contracts within established procurement procedures and risk management systems.

• Market Knowledge: The ability to maintain an up-to-date understanding of the category supply market as well as developing an understanding of the wider influences on that market including technology.

• Personal Growth: A willingness to grow your capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities.

• IT Skills: A significant aspect of the role will involve the preparation of detailed and complex reports therefore experience in Excel (macro’s / pivot tables) will be important.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

Join our journey!