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About the Role

As our Supply Manager across Home Claims, you’ll be responsible for developing and managing strong partnerships with key suppliers, ensuring great customer and business outcomes. You’ll lead and deliver strategic supply management initiatives, including internal operational workstreams, with a strong focus on the commercial elements of supplier services. By building a deep understanding of supply chain spend, you’ll identify and deliver material cost reduction opportunities in partnership with suppliers and internal stakeholders, while protecting customer, operational, and regulatory outcomes.

Responsibilities

Using data, MI and other technology/tools to build a clear view of supply chain costs and commercial performance, identifying and delivering material cost reduction opportunities.
Working with Supplier Relationship Managers and suppliers to implement changes and improvements across Supply Chain while maintaining strong partnerships, services, and customer outcomes.
Leading key supply management initiatives for the team through to successful delivery, building and overseeing a clear savings pipeline and tracking benefits realization.
Working with suppliers to deliver performance improvement opportunities quickly and effectively, managing improvement plans and building strong relationships.
Collaborating with internal stakeholders and SMEs to review supplier risk, resiliency, control, and assurance requirements, working with suppliers to deliver actions and evidence.
Identifying and delivering opportunities within the market to build further strategic partnerships and arrangements, aligned with Home Claims key customer, operational, and commercial objectives.

Requirements

Demonstrable experience using data, MI and other technology/tools to build a clear but comprehensive view of supply chain costs and commercial performance.
Demonstrable experience owning the identification and delivery of material cost reduction opportunities across the supply chain.
Demonstrable experience working with Supplier Relationship Managers and suppliers to implement changes and improvements across Supply Chain.
Demonstrable experience maintaining strong supplier partnerships, services and customer outcomes.
Demonstrable experience working with wider stakeholders to agree any contractual enhancements.
Demonstrable experience leading key supply management initiatives for the team through to successful delivery.
Demonstrable experience building and overseeing a clear savings pipeline for delivery across the team and tracking benefits realisation.
Demonstrable experience working with suppliers to deliver performance improvement opportunities quickly and effectively.
Demonstrable experience managing improvement plans and building and maintaining strong relationships with key partners for optimal supplier performance, innovation and mutual growth opportunities.
Demonstrable experience collaborating with internal stakeholders and SMEs to review supplier risk, resiliency, control and assurance requirements.
Demonstrable experience working with the suppliers to deliver actions and evidence.
Demonstrable experience identifying and delivering opportunities within the market to build further strategic partnerships and arrangements, aligned with our Home Claims key customer, operational and commercial objectives.
Comprehensive experience working with data and MI in a commercial analysis capacity within an insurance claims background.
Extensive experience managing suppliers/supply chain across a Home Claims function.
Demonstrable experience delivering key workstreams and material commercial improvement initiatives.
Strong stakeholder management experience with the ability to influence and drive change.

Skills

Data analysis
MI analysis
Commercial analysis
Supply chain management
Supplier relationship management
Stakeholder management
Influencing
Driving change

Location

Leicester
London
Bexhill

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Comprehensive experience
Extensive experience
Demonstrable experience

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary
£5k car allowance

Benefits

Flexible working
Competitive bonus scheme
Private medical insurance
Life assurance cover
Income protection
Matched pension contributions up to 10%
Discounts
Cashback
Free independent mortgage advice
Free access to financial wellbeing support
Thrive mental health app
Colleague assistance programme available 24/7
In-house mental health first aiders
Support groups
27 days annual leave + bank holidays
Option to buy or sell one week of annual leave
Health care cash back plans
Dental plans
Discounted health assessments
Cycle to work scheme
Tech scheme
Discounted and free onsite facilities
Social events

About the Company

Hastings Direct is a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become The Best and Biggest in the UK market.
We have made huge investments in our data and tech capabilities over the past few years, along with nurturing our 4Cs culture.
We provide insurance for over four million customers.
Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly.
Hastings Direct is a fast growing, agile, digitally focused general insurance provider of products and services to over 4 million customers in the UK, employing over 4,600 colleagues.
Our vision – to be the best and biggest digital insurance provider in the market.
It's our attitude and the way we run our business that makes us different.
We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community.
It's a dynamic, flexible, fun and constantly changing environment.
You'll enjoy the scope to make a real difference for our customers, influence our company, benefit the communities we work in and have fun along the way.

Equal Opportunity

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive.
If you’re applying for a job with us, you’ll have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment journey.
We also welcome applications through the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS).
Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly.
We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status.
Please also note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes credit and criminal record checks.
At Hastings Direct, we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, we encourage you to be open with us.
Our recruitment team is here to provide the support you need to ensure a fair and accessible experience for all.