About the Role
As a Senior Procurement Category Manager, you will optimize 3rd party Marketing spend by delivering identified benefits and creating value optimization strategies. You will influence multi-million pound spend across multiple marketing categories.
Responsibilities
- Review group spend and analyze supplier base and business requirements.
- Identify and lead content projects, ensuring timely delivery and target achievement.
- Engage with local and international stakeholders to understand requirements, identify opportunities, align goals, share best practices, and review spend.
- Build cutting-edge knowledge of the supply base and market trends, providing value-adding insights to the content community.
- Understand critical areas for innovation and build a pipeline of opportunities for the supplier community.
- Support the implementation of the procurement strategy and policy.
Requirements
- Experience with offline and digital media, partnerships/sponsorships, creative, and martech.
- Outstanding/excellent verbal and communication skills with the ability to present and summarize a business case to an executive audience.
- Excellent understanding and management of RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, and Agreements.
- Excellent skills in evaluating or monitoring contract performance to determine the necessity for amendments or extensions and compliance to contractual obligations.
- Commercial awareness and excellent negotiation skills.
Skills
- Offline media
- Digital media
- Partnerships
- Sponsorships
- Creative
- Martech
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Presentation skills
- RFI management
- RFP management
- RFQ management
- Agreement management
- Contract performance evaluation
- Contract amendment
- Contract extension
- Contract compliance
- Commercial awareness
- Negotiation skills
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid working - 2 days in the office
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Generous group bonus scheme
- Hybrid working - 2 days in the office
- Private medical insurance
- Pension Scheme - matched to 6%
- Ability to buy and sell holiday
- Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind
- Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on professional or personal development
- Sharesave Scheme
About the Company
- Sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment is changing, and we're leading that change by putting people first.
- We place exciting, engaging and entertaining experiences at more fingertips than ever before.
- We're pulling into pole position by pushing boundaries further with innovation and technology.
- Join Entain, it's your game. Let's win together.
Equal Opportunity
- Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.
