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The Sourcing Group Manager - MIB is an experienced Procurement professional providing strategic sourcing expertise and guidance across multiple business lines. This role will incorporate a strong consultant oriented approach working with the business lines to deliver cost effective, efficient solutions to sourcing challenges.  Through engagement with business partners and a deep understanding of the market and commodities you are responsible for developing and delivering sourcing strategies that positively impact the business. 
Purpose of the role:



Provide input to managed commodity strategies, delivering supply chain projects and managing key suppliers across RBS group.

Support the development and implementation of category strategies for the areas under their direct control.

Develop and implement a robust project based approach to ensure the pro-active management of contracts and projects ensuring the delivery of cost saving and revenue benefits

Ensure that commercial agreements with third party suppliers mitigate both supply chain and contract risk.  

Deliverables:



Support delivery of sourcing benefits on approx. $200m of influenced spend across multiple commodities (wide range of commodities including Technology, Legal and Resourcing). 

Develop and execute regional or global sourcing strategies and practices across managed commodities and work with colleagues in UK, Europe, India, and Asia as needed.

Minimize commercial, legal and supply chain risk across all areas within remit.

Use sound knowledge of commodities supply base to make suitable recommendations for a range of project specific requirements.

Run e-sourcing events and demonstrate to business flexibility of e-sourcing approach.

Support Supplier Management activities to deliver measurable ongoing benefits.

Create and develop strong working relationships with key internal and external partners up to Executive levels to achieve sourcing objectives and be able to challenge business requests in line with demand management objectives.

Drive innovation related to strategic sourcing and supplier relations


Qualifications

A solid understanding of Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Management approaches.

Bachelor's degree in business or a related technical field required

5 years relevant experience at a Fortune 500 organization; prior sourcing or consulting experience preferred

Ability to work under pressure with efficiency and accuracy

Ability to plan and prioritize workload

High-level understanding and application of financial and management accounting principles within purchasing

Strong negotiation skills applied in complex negotiations within the Purchasing cycle

Working knowledge of relevant sourcing platforms (Oracle, Ariba, etc) helpful

Demonstrable experience managing suppliers with pervasive relationships across many areas of a large organization a plus

Project management experience preferred

THESE POSITION WILL BE LOCATED IN STAMFORD, CT
It’s a unique time – having gone through an extraordinary period in our long history we are now delivering a renewed strategy. Procurement Services is playing a significant role in the Market and International Banking (M&IB) journey. We are consistently recognized as global leaders in supply chain management, our capability and solutions are in more demand than ever, delivering value to our customers and businesses in the Americas and globally as part of RBS.
In the US, M&IB is a leading banking and fixed-income capital markets firm. RBS is among the principal suppliers of corporate finance and debt capital markets services.
M&IB Products& Services:



Banking: Corporate Banking, Debt Capital Markets, Leveraged Finance Asset-Backed Finance, Corporate Finance, Real Estate Finance, Infrastructure Finance, Aviation Finance Project Finance and Equity Financing.


 

Markets: US Treasuries Primary Dealer, Agencies, Asset and Mortgage-Backed Trading and Sales, Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities Trading and Sales, Investment Grade, High Yield, Loan and Distressed Credit Trading and Sales, Foreign Exchange, Futures, Commodities, Equities, Interest Rate Derivatives, Currency and Interest Options and Risk Management.

Non-M&IB Businesses in the US: Citizens Financial Group, RBS America, RBS Lynk and Charter One.
Customers (External and/or internal): Large and Mid-sized Corporate Banks, Insurance Companies, Pension Funds, Asset Managers and Hedge Funds. 
Key goal: Our key goal is to become a leading Corporate and Institutional bank in the US and a Top 5 Firm in the US Debt Markets. To accomplish this, we are looking to expand our reach with large corporates while deepening our penetration with our institutional clients.
Main locations: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Manhattan Beach, New York, San Francisco, Stamford, Washington, D.C.
 

Hours and Work Schedule

Hours per Week:   40


Work Schedule:    Monday-Friday 8:00AM-5:00PM
 

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of RBS Citizens, N.A. to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status, or any other factor protected by federal, state, and/or local laws.

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This commercially experienced individual will provide a high level of supplier and internal quality and Risk assurance. The incumbent will work with the Business Units, Contract Management and Procurement Services in providing an independent assessment of Supply Chain compliance with current internal / external regulation.
The role will focus on performing a cycle of both planned and reactive reviews to understand the existing level of compliance within the Supply Chain; subsequently seek to improve levels to stated regulatory / legislative levels, as well as look to develop broad levels of excellence. There will also be an expectation to perform some Sourcing activity.
Purpose of the role:



Drive and report compliance to Purchase to Pay (P2P) channels (when applicable), preferred and approved suppliers, contract policy and Vendor risk assessment requirements.

Support existing and any new Divestment programmes and Deliver Procurement Services activities in line with Divestment programme milestones.

Support existing and any new Vendor management regulatory activity and report on progress to internal partners up to Executive levels.

Support the implementation of the Contract management policy within the Market International Banking (M&IB) business

Support sourcing activity across multiple commodities.

  Deliverables:



Support P2P program implementation (FIRST) in 2013 and investigate/support the need to implement an interim P2P channel solution prior to FIRST. 

In the absence of a formal interim P2P channel pre-First; define/ help implement a process that will ensure that due diligence is followed when on-boarding new vendors or services (i.e.: automate the new vendor request approval form, no payment to vendors in the absence of a contract and/or risk assessment…).

Support the Contract Management team in identifying contracts in scope, engaging with the business, aligning with sourcing strategies.

Support delivery of sourcing benefits on approx. $50m of influenced spend across managed commodities (multiple commodities including Legal, Resourcing and Technology). 

 

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in business or a related technical field required

5 years relevant experience at a Fortune 500 organization; prior sourcing or consulting experience preferred

Ability to work under pressure with efficiency and accuracy

Ability to plan and prioritize workload

Experienced in driving change across levels of an organization, and challenges that purchasing department experiences.

Understanding of role that purchasing plays in an organization, and challenges that purchasing department experiences.

Project management experience preferred

 

Hours and Work Schedule

Hours per Week:   40


Work Schedule:    Monday-Friday 8:00AM-5:00PM
 

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of RBS Citizens, N.A. to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status, or any other factor protected by federal, state, and/or local laws.

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