Job Description
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Are you a Professional Services Specialist with a keen interest in Business Process Outsourcing? We’re looking for a proactive person to help us lead and coordinate business and market strategy and then convert this into execution of tender activity and negotiation across a variety of Professional Services categories.
The Sourcing Operations function is key in Aquanima’s structure, as one of our procurement analysts, you’ll be well versed in negotiating operational and commercial conditions that align to the Client’s needs, by ensuring contracts are well drafted and robust.
The difference you’ll make:
- Conducting market and spend analysis for the category, monitoring latest trends to recommend optimal cost positions / market innovations to the client
- Supporting the Category Manager in the definition and execution of strategies for the different spend areas
- Coordinating and delivering multiple tenders and negotiations for the category, drafting and issuing RFx documentation, completing offer analysis inclusive of technical and commercial scoring, negotiating contractual and commercial terms, preparing recommendations for the client
- Supporting the client with the review and definition of RFI/P specifications, recommending best commercial approach to deliver best value and savings
- Supporting and advising the client in supplier selection criteria, ensuring transparency of procurement process at all times
- Completing legal contracts using predefined templates. Negotiate commercial terms and liaise with Legal Department as necessary
- Ensuring compliance of own projects with defined Aquanima and Client’s policies, processes and procedures, managing risk for the organisation at all times
- Identifying and anticipate issues in the execution of the negotiations, propose and implement solutions, escalate as required
What you’ll bring:
These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:
- Experience in handling Professional Services and Human Resources categories including consultancy, legal services and business process outsourcing, with excellent experience in sourcing the categories
- Demonstrate high level of understanding of category spend, cost management, strategic sourcing, supplier negotiation, supplier management
- Brilliant interpersonal skills, and the ability to interact effectively with all levels in a large corporate environment
- Experience in process improvement in the procurement environment
It would also be nice for you to have:
- Ability to work well in a high volume, fast-paced environment
- Solid organisational skills; can manage multiple & competing priorities while achieving results
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Additional professional qualifications (e.g. MCIPS or working towards this) or equivalent
What else you need to know:
This role is based in Milton Keynes.
We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).
If you apply for this role in this locations, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.
We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.
If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.
Inclusion
At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.
How we’ll reward you.
As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.
- Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
- We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
- Bupa medical insurance included, and voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates. Including:
- dental insurance,
- healthcare cash plan and health assessments
- Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover.
- 24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more.
- Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships.
Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies
What to do next:-
If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.
If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at [email protected] or call 0870 414 9080.
Our purpose at Santander UK is to help people and businesses prosper. We are a leading financial services provider, offering a wide range of personal and commercial financial products and services, with around 15 million customers across our Retail and Corporate Businesses.
We have set ourselves an ambitious target - to become one of the best banks in the UK to work for. We’re transforming our business, creating a Simple, Personal and Fair culture in a dynamic and creative environment. We are committed to making a difference.
Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our people. We aim to reflect and celebrate diversity in our workplace in order to create an inclusive culture that adds real value to our business.
We care about you
In Santander, this means creating a workplace that respects your individuality and supports you to enjoy life outside work, from volunteering in the community to more family time.
We care about you and enhancing society and protecting the environment through products and services that enable people and communities to prosper. In short, it means supporting your ambitions and interests at every level.
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It’s not your background or degree that matters to us. It’s not who you know or how you can blend in. We’re interested in your unique perspective, capacity to be yourself, and drive to take on challenges that will help you discover your career path.
Our programmes have been designed to bring out the best in you, providing you with the training and opportunities to set your potential free.
Our culture
The Santander Way expresses the culture we foster to ensure we deliver on our values ‘Simple, Personal and Fair’. At its core are five simple behaviours (TEAMS) which will fuel our growth, provide a shared focus and help us move faster.
When you become part of Santander you’re joining an incredible community of people with a shared respect, who put our customers at the heart of everything they do. Our behaviours guide us on our transformation journey as we innovate to help people and businesses prosper, both in the UK and globally.
Think Customer
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Act Now
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Speak UP
These are the foundations of how we all work and connect with each other day-to-day, and something you’ll learn even more about when you join us..
WHAT WE DO FOR OUR PEOPLE
Inclusion and diversity
We believe in equality of opportunity in all areas of employment and business, where selection and promotion is based on the relevant aptitudes and abilities to do the job. Learn more here
Santander UK is a member of a number of diversity partnership programmes including:
• Employers' Forum on Age
• Employers' Forum on Disability
• Opportunity Now
• Race for Opportunity
• Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme
Family Friendly Policies
If you’re thinking about joining us you may be interested in understanding how we support our employees who have family or caring responsibilities. Download our friendly policies here: do-careers-uk-Santander_Family_Friendly_Policies_Apr_2023.pdf
Gender Pay Gap Reporting
We are committed to creating a culture that values and champions diversity, and creates equality of opportunity for all. This is a commitment that starts at the very top of our organisation and flows throughout it.
The gender pay gap takes into account all roles at all levels of the organisation, rather than comparing pay received by women and men performing the same roles. We regularly review and analyse our employee pay to ensure men and women are treated equally when performing the same role. We are, therefore, confident that we do not have an equal pay issue at Santander UK.
Working with our unions
We have a long history of trade union recognition governed by:
a partnership agreement with Advance - the independent trade union recognised in the former Abbey and Bradford & Bingley parts of the business
recognition agreements with the Communication Workers Union - recognised in the former Alliance & Leicester parts of the business
Both unions are affiliated to the Trade Union Congress.
Health and safety
Helping to look after our employees' health has mutual benefits to the individual employee and to the business.
All managers and employees have access to guidelines, standards and procedures they need to manage safety effectively through our Health and Safety Management System.
We promote physical and mental wellbeing through:
• a quarterly health and lifestyle newsletter
• an Employee Assistance Programme that offers a free, confidential, 24/7 helpline
• face-to-face counselling
We help millions of people prosper and realise their dreams
• 196 thousand employees in the Group
• 40 training hours per employee throughout the year
• 102 million euros for our employees development
• 140 thousand volunteering hours
• 46 million euros for social programmes and projects
• Culture
• Our culture — The Santander Way — is aligned with our corporate strategy. It encompasses our purpose, our aim and our ways of working. It is the cornerstone of our bank – a responsible bank.
• Simple, Personal and Fair is how we work and that is the behaviour expected of our corporate culture.
• Simple - We offer customers an accessible service with simple products that are easy to understand. We use simple language and improve our processes every day.
• Personal - We provide our customers with a personalised service, offering them the products and services best suited to their needs. We want each and every one of our employees and customers to feel valued and treated as an individual.
• Fair - We treat our employees and customers fairly and equally; we are transparent, and we keep our promises. We create good relationships with different stakeholders because we understand that what is good for them is also good for Santander.