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Supply Chain Management (SCM) is responsible for the overall commercial and risk management with the bank’s external third-party vendors. To meet increasing business demands, the SCM team is looking for a candidate with strong experience in sourcing / procurement with a specific expertise in eAuctions (with a preference for Reverse eAuctions), and the gravitas to engage stakeholders within SCB business function to support key priorities. The successful candidate will be responsible driving the adoption of auctioning capabilities and influencing and executing sourcing activities through auctions in collaboration with the SCM Category Management capability as well as various business functions and related support teams and must be able to demonstrate excellence in driving favourable commercial outcomes. The successful candidate will also be responsible for supporting tracking and reporting.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy
Strategy
- Develop the eAuction capability within Supply Chain Management, including:
- Enhancing existing processes to embed eAuction Capability
- Integrate eAuction thinking into the SCM community
- Identify Priority Reverse Auction opportunities from in-flight Sourcing Engagements
- Drive the execution of eAuctions by supporting Global Category Management and embedding the approach into the Global Category Strategies.
Liaise with the business functions leads to produce a needs assessment that is aligned to their business plans
Stakeholder Management
- Ensure the intrinsic business value of the eAuction approach is communicated and understood by the business functions and the SCM department.
- Provides guidance on the SCM eAuction process, system, and benefits.
- Assist stakeholders in achieving their strategic objectives through the deployment of eAuctioning.
Project Management
- Identifies and mitigates risks that would impact the overall success/failure of eAuctioning.
- Ensures eAuction supported sourcing projects are prioritized and delivered against agreed timelines
- Supports, leads and executes sourcing initiatives supported by eAuctioning.
- Implements regular category eAuction reviews with Global Category management leads, to ensure all stakeholder requests are being owned
Key Responsibilities
Cross Functional Engagement
- Work in a highly effective Supply Chain Management (SCM) team that will deliver commercial agreements that exceed stakeholder and client expectation.
- Keeps open channels of communication to ensure high level of engagement
- Contribute to process improvement initiatives
- Engages functions and businesses in collaboration with Global Category Management to enhance awareness of the eAuction process.
Risk Management
- Assist in effective governance and controls for the eAuction engagement process.
- Supports the business functional vendor management teams in day 2 supplier matters
- Operate in compliance with mandated sourcing processes, policies, and procedures
Key Stakeholders
- Key stakeholder interactions are Global Category Leads/Managers and Business / Function service delivery leads, and or Contract Managers
- SCM teams; Cluster Leads, Country Leads, Global Category Management, Risk and Governance and Vendor Management.
- Cross functional teams during category management development and during strategic sourcing events. This includes, but not limited to, Business stakeholders, Legal, Compliance, Tax and Finance
Regulatory & Business Conduct
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Lead the Group/Country Stakeholders to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment. *
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters
Skills and Experience
- Business Process Design
- Auction
- Reverse Auction
- Business Writing
- Presentation Skills
- Internal Controls
- Product Design and Development
- Sustainability
Qualifications
- Bachelor/Master Degree with 5 years’ experience in Procurement
- eAuction practitioner
- Possess strong relationship-building skills, with an ability to work effectively with peers and senior stakeholders across multiple regions
- Agile and comfortable with dealing with complex datasets
- Effective verbal and written presentation and exceptional communication skills
- Strong project management and problem-solving skills
- Self-starter and resilient
- Strong cognitive ability to design meaningful dashboards to drive key management decisions
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.
Together we:
- Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
- Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
- Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
What we offer
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
- Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
- Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
- Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
- Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
- A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
- Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
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