Procurement Manager - Media
- Employer
- Sky
- Location
- Isleworth
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Closing date
- 9 Feb 2022
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- Sector
- Media & Internet
- Hours
- Full Time
- Flexibility
- Home working available
- Contract Type
- Permanent
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Job Details
Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe's leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.Our vision for Procurement is to deliver the best possible supplier contracts and relationships over the short & longer term (cost, quality, risk, availability, innovation, sustainability).As the Procurement Manager for Media the role has a strong focus on Media Category Strategy Development, as well as Supplier Relationship Management. You will work closely with media teams and agencies to find opportunities to improve outcomes for Sky's marketing & media activity.What you'll do:
- Work with and report to the Senior Procurement Manager - Media to deliver against Group Procurement objectives across the Sky Group, Comcast and NBCU.
- Own Media category spend of $600m+, develop spend strategies together with colleagues, lead execution and be accountable for results.
- Have an in-depth understanding of the factors and challenges faced in the Media industry and be able to use this knowledge to introduce innovation and challenge current business processes.
- Run multiple deals simultaneously with increased complexity, collaborate with stakeholders pro-actively, and set out longer term plan.
- Provide strategic commercial input to a broad range of initiatives, including Sky-wide cost-saving programmes.
- Be capable of evaluating options against all relevant factors i.e. technical, commercial, logistical, risk etc and recommending the best option to the business.
- Help develop and deliver procurement initiatives and best practice, whilst supporting the marketing procurement team with renewals, RFPs and team projects.
- Monitor the performance of our agency contracts, utilising important metrics and feedback sessions.
- Strong communication skills and an ability to bring people together.
- Media and/or marketing procurement is desirable.
- Experience handling contracting processes (renewals, SoWs, contract negotiations).
- Able to lead difficult conversations and negotiations.
- A natural thirst for learning and problem solving.
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences
Company
Sky is the operator of the leading multichannel television platform in the UK and Ireland with viewers in 8.6 million households.
Sky was the winner of the Overall Top Employer Award for the 2016 Workingmums.co.uk Top Employer Awards. It was praised by the judges for the strong evidence of its support for diversity, female career progression across the board and family friendly working which was backed up with strong evidence and case studies.
Company info
- Website
- http://www.sky.com/
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