About the Role
The financial services sector is highly regulated and risk sensitive.
We aspire to be a leading technology Sourcing organisation that connects people to ideas.
Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain Management is a core specialist department within Operations Business Services, providing bank-wide focus and leadership, through the provision of professional procurement services to market leading standards, directly through internal resources and through external partnerships.
Strategic Sourcing provides services across all AIB geographies, including the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, UK and US.
Responsible for the management and delivery of multi-stream strategic sourcing projects and managing AIB's Strategic Sourcing processes including associated research, negotiation, financials, risk, resourcing, and governance.
Key Responsibilities Include:
* Building category strategy to ensure operational efficiencies.
* Establishing a strong network and fostering collaboration with suppliers, key stakeholders, and team members.
* Ensuring that all expenditure is sourced and managed in accordance with appropriate governance and policies.
* Supervising, planning, managing and assuming complete responsibility for all activities and processes associated with the categories assigned.
* Adapting to and understanding technical solutions to problem solving, with the ability to articulate technology and service trends in terms business leaders will understand.
* Being an effective change agent, project managing multiple Sourcing initiatives and able to cope with simultaneous demands from different areas and levels of the business and stakeholders.
* Reducing cost and adding value to existing or future technology solutions by a robust application of sourcing and supplier development methodologies: sourcing strategy definition, demand & options challenge, optimising specification, joint process improvement, financial analysis, negotiation and contract due diligence.
* Developing and maintaining expert knowledge of respective global supply markets, competitors and product innovations.