Procurement Category Manager - Corporate Services

Procurement Category Manager - Corporate Services

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Company Description

Sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment is changing, and we’re leading that change. By putting people first. By placing exciting, engaging and entertaining experiences at more fingertips than ever before. We're pulling into pole position by pushing boundaries further. With innovation. With technology. But most importantly, with people like you. Because when you join Entain, it’s your game. So let’s win together.

Company Description

Sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment is changing, and we’re leading that change. By putting people first. By placing exciting, engaging and entertaining experiences at more fingertips than ever before. We're pulling into pole position by pushing boundaries further. With innovation. With technology. But most importantly, with people like you. Because when you join Entain, it’s your game. So let’s win together.

Job Description

Role Purpose

Entain are looking for a Procurement Category Manager for Corporate Services, to join its growing global business. You’ll be working across the major areas of Corporate Services spend including Legal, Human Resources, Travel, Treasury, Insurance, Corporate Relations and Consultancy.

The key purpose of this role is to optimise 3rd party spend on all Corporate Services expenditure across Entain, creating short/mid and long-term value optimisation strategies aligned to the objectives of the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage Corporate Services community to understand business strategies
• Develop medium and long term Strategies, ensuring commercial tension across all areas of spend
• Using stakeholder and supplier networks, identify continuous improvement and step-change opportunities to product and service specifications
• Identification of revenue improvement opportunities
• Own and embody the team’s values, including the promotion and embedding within the team
• Financial reporting of cost improvement on a P&L basis, interpreting CAPEX, OPEX, depreciation and cash flow
• Operate agile and effective commercial processes
• Optimise buying channels, to ensure efficient transactional procurement
• Identification of global synergies
  
  

• Creation of global Corporate Services commercial strategy identifying all sources of benefit short/mid and long term
• Provision of strong commercial leadership on all areas of CS costs
• Develop and conduct Rfx’s for market activity ensuring size and complexity are fit for purpose
• Creation and buy in to key supplier management strategy to drive improved performance across the supply base
• Develop an understanding and knowledge of all industry specific technology solutions
• Become a “trusted advisor” member of the CS community
• Maximise contract compliance and spend under management
• Technically and commercially astute
  
  

• Exceptional commercial experience (including strategy creation, implementation and benefit delivery)
• Building of Corporate Services strategies
• TCO modelling to define optimal cost structures
• Excellent people and influencing skills across all levels of the organisation
• Highly organised
• Self-motivated and can-do attitude
  
  

• Graduate calibre with Bachelor’s degree (desirable but not mandatory)
• Post-graduate qualification (e.g. MSc/MBA) or a professional qualification such as MCIPS is desirable but not essential
• Project Management qualification desirable but not essential
  
  

• Generous group bonus scheme
• Hybrid working
• Private medical insurance
• Pension scheme
• Ability to buy and sell holiday
• Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind
• Additional “It’s Your Game” day off to use at either Christmas or New Year
• Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development
• Share save scheme
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Supply Chain

• Industries

  Entertainment Providers

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