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Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centred approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity.

Purpose of the Role

Within dentsu Global Functions Procurement, our focus is to deliver value for money through commercially sound agreements and to enable business improvements and efficiencies via supplier sourcing and relationship management.

This role will require the application of strategic sourcing methodology and supplier/stakeholder management principles to deliver savings and service improvements in line with our OneDentsu objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Ownership of selected spend and commercial relationships within Professional Services and other Indirect categories, with responsibility for the category planning process and strategic sourcing of key supplier contracts in alignment with business requirements.

• Leading BAU procurement activity such as supplier sourcing, negotiation, drafting contracts and business improvement plans to deliver against targeted KPIs and other OneDentsu objectives.

• Supporting the business with contract and performance management, supplier relationship management (SRM) techniques and contributing to dentsu’s award-winning sustainability agenda.

• Building and managing interdepartmental project teams to meet functional and individual targets, while actively identifying, prioritising and mitigating risks and issues for all procurement activities.

• Compiling and presenting in-depth, accurate and insightful reporting to senior stakeholders and executive management.

• Running RFX and competitive sourcing exercises for high-value, high-risk projects (with and without e-sourcing tools); implementing global rate cards where possible and incorporating requirements from Legal and Data Privacy, Security Assurance, Vendor Due Diligence, and other internal SME teams as needed.

Qualifications + Skills

• Experience of owning end-to-end Procurement at a large global, matrixed organisation, and specifically to have a proven track record in managing multiple indirect categories.

• Can evidence strong negotiation skills, implementing complex contracts and conducting SRM initiatives with a range of vendors (with a focus on Professional Services, SaaS, Finance and HR).

• Preferable to be working towards, or be CIPS / MCIPS qualified, or have undergone training in contract law.

• Strong understanding of financial reporting and modelling principles and capable of extracting and rationalising large spend data sets for subsequent presentation.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills – both verbal and written, and ability to influence stakeholders up to C-Level.

What we offer

• This is a permanent role.

• The team is based in our London office but operates under flexible working arrangements. The official guide is that team members will attend the office 1-2 times per week, however this will ultimately depend on project and individual category requirements.

• As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Inclusion and Diversity

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

About dentsu

Taking a people-centred approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity. As part of Dentsu Group Inc. we are headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and our 65,000 employee-base of dedicated professionals work across four regions (Japan, Americas, EMEA and APAC). Dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion sits at the heart of our Social Impact strategy – our fully integrated sustainability strategy which includes our ambition to build a fair and more equal society, where everyone is equipped to thrive.

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