Sourcing Manager Capital Projects
New York, NY

As a Barclays Sourcing Manager Capital Projects, you will be the category lead for delivering all procurement activities for the renovation and refurbishment of Barclays historical Americas headquarters based in New York. Get this exciting opportunity to support the delivery of the end-to-end global procurement strategy. In this role, you will also interact with senior stakeholders in Procurement, Capital Projects as well as our supplier partners.

Salary / Rate Minimum: $150,000
Salary / Rate Maximum: $190,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Building strategic relationships with a network of senior Barclays and external supplier stakeholders in order to understand business requirements
• Identifying opportunities to create value and to position Procurement’s value proposition and align sourcing strategies accordingly
• Creating compelling business cases for change and obtain Procurement and stakeholder approval to execute from Barclays budget/business owners
• Delivering benefits identified in strategies through effective strategy execution, aligned to risk management, compliance, quality, service, cost and innovation
• Engaging senior stakeholders and other relevant functions in the 745 sourcing strategy delivery and execution
• Building strategic relationships with key capital projects and engineering suppliers at a senior level and managing processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships
• Building the organisational capabilities necessary to implement Barclays strategy, now and in the future
• Ensuring appropriate communication strategy is in place and in use within the relevant Procurement and business customer networks

What we’re looking for

• Significant indirect category management experience, ideally demonstrating ownership of multiple categories of spend greater than £100m per sub-category
• Solid understanding of procurement market drivers impacting the category; ability to share current trends and mitigation plans
• Highly developed business acumen with demonstrated success in delivering a multi-year strategy ensuring competitive commercial advantage
• Demonstrated ability to forge close business relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all management levels

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Deep expertise in Capital Projects across a number of sub-categories including Engineering, Project management, cost management and construction
• Experience of working withing the Financial Services sector
• Past experience on leading the delivery of a global HQ refurb/renovation from a procurement perspective in New York
• Academic degree or equivalent course or experience in Business or related field

Where will you be working?

You will be working at our Americas Headquarters at 745 Seventh Avenue. This 32-story office tower is located in Times Square in the heart of Manhattan and features a cafeteria, fitness center and state-of-the-art LED signage on the facade of the building.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 50 countries and employing around 83,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.