SUPPLIER MANAGER

As a Barclays Supplier Manager, you will be the contact point between Suppliers and internal stakeholders, build effective relationships, and ensure compliance. You will play a key role in bringing your Commercial focus, and owning the relationship between the supplier and the bank. The team you’ll be managing is responsible for all aspects of working with supplier resources – working post implementation of contracts, balancing costs against service levels & risks, and enabling Barclays to achieve its ambition of becoming the bank of choice.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. 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.

WORKING FLEXIBLY

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month, or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally can request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances.

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

•     Supporting Supplier Managers in delivering ‘best in class’ supplier management of one of the group’s strategic and /or operational 3rd party suppliers

•     Providing effective management of ‘complex’ Supplier relationships on behalf of Barclays by applying all elements of Sourcing and Supplier Management Policy

•     Assisting the activity of root cause analysis of incidents, implementing remedial action as agreed with the Supplier Manager

•     Building an understanding of the specific cost, risk & service parameters which underpin the service and use knowledge of the service/supply to identify/deliver improvements

•     Engaging with the delivery of small/medium variations to documentation and support the delivery of large change

•     Providing an interface into the supplier in respect of required variations to services, ensuring necessary discipline/agreed change acceptance methodologies are deployed at all times 

•     Managing the collation, analysis and timely reporting of data inputs to support the development and implementation of the Supplier Management strategy

•     Developing with the supplier a means of assessing the supplier relationship covering all the key service attributes required for effective service delivery

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

•     Dealing with services delivered through 3rd parties and / or operational experience

•     Experience with analysis and interpreting data, draw conclusions and make reasoned recommendations

•     Financially aware; analytical, with a attention to detail

•     Written and spoken communication skills in English; confident and articulate

SKILLS THAT WILL HELP YOU IN THE ROLE:

•     Industry / market knowledge of the sector

•     Knowledge of Barclays business areas, key priorities & challenges

•     Knowledge of cost, risk & service parameters

•     Preferably a degree caliber candidate with relevant qualifications

WHERE WILL YOU BE WORKING?

At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live. We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany, you’ll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.

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.