My long standing Global Media client have tasked me with finding a Senior Sourcing Specialist to join their team on a 6 month contract with a view to an immediate start reporting to the Senior Sourcing and Procurement Manager.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• The Senior Sourcing Specialist will be responsible for all procurement activities related to Physical Production
• Work with the business to establish benchmarks costs for crew and production equipment.
• Working with stakeholders and use these benchmarks to review and challenge budgets submitted
• Develop and maintain a vendor list for key production commodities
• Work closely with Sourcing colleagues across our main EMEA markets
• Collaborate closely with Sourcing colleagues Domestically and across all regions
• Make sure the Company's reputation is preserved though vendor compliance
• Be the point of contact within Sourcing for the Production teams for the UK
• Provide support to the regional production teams
• Develop a cost benchmarking database for physical production commodities primarily for UK
• Review production budgets submitted by 3rd party production companies to identify opportunities to improve cost
• Develop and maintain knowledge of market trends and conditions in the physical production space and understand how these affect suppliers, cost of goods/services, pricing, and the resulting impact to clients.

WHO YOU ARE

• Able to travel when safe to do so (10% of the time)
• Fluent in English and one other regional language preferred
• Good understanding of Finance.
• Bachelor degree - preferably 2:1.
• Develops clear and consistent strategies to achieve the vision
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of content production for TV and experience managing related procurement activity
• Ability to quickly earn the trust of key stakeholders through your subject matter knowledge, keeping commitments and problem solving
• Proactively looks for new opportunities
• Transfers ideas and successes across boundaries
• Challenges the status quo
• Ability to effectively communicate
• Excellent facilitation and project management skills and the ability to handle a number of tasks and projects at the same time
• Ability to analyse data and use this to develop sourcing opportunities
• Ability to apply market knowledge to create extra value for stakeholders
• Experience developing and implementing sourcing strategies and leading supplier negotiations
• Good understanding of legal aspects related to procurement contracts
• A minimum 5 years-experience with a record of providing procurement support to physical production

If you are interested or know anyone who is please get in touch to hear more.