Procurement | Language Specialist | 12 Months Contract

Arabic/ Chinese/ Turkish/ Japanese

What impact will you make?

Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte is where you’ll find unrivaled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential

Deloitte is where you’ll find unrivaled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential.

The Team

Discover the various Internal Audit services, we offer to help organizations look below the surface to achieve superior performance through a full range of outsourcing, co-sourcing, and advisory services—including with respect to technology and data analytics. We enhance the overall value delivered by IA functions through strengthening quality, flexibility, efficiency, and value. Additionally, Deloitte helps clients extend their IA oversight to gain greater understanding of key enterprise risks such as evolving IT systems, applications, and other technologies.

The nature of engagements would span across conducting, Internal Audit, Policy and Controls Reviews, Process Advisory and Regulatory Compliance Reviews. Further, the individual would be exposed to working on diversified cross functional teams in the given area of specialization.

Work you’ll do

• The role interacts with stakeholders in Procurement as well as within the business.
• Develops strategic sourcing strategies for the given category/contract
• Plans, leads and oversees tenders and negotiations
• Creates and implements Procurement initiatives/strategies which improve quality of service and supply and produce significant cost savings across business units
• Knows and utilises complex business processes including risk/regulatory/compliance requirements
• There is an expectation to work closely in partnership with all stakeholders to support Procurement objectives and to maximize value, whilst reducing risk to the firm. The role holder will need to have sourcing deal execution expertise support to manage and deliver commercial negotiations with third parties, liaise with users across Barclays to ensure favorable outcomes.
• Main duties and responsibilities
• Run a range of sourcing projects in line with procedures whilst driving commercial value and speed of execution
• Build strategic relationships with a network of stakeholders to understand business requirements and build into a sourcing plan
• Negotiate supplier contracts effectively maintaining leverage and outcomes including consolidation into other agreements or divestment arrangements
• Run competitive events such as RFPs for projects of varying value and complexity
• Work with legal, subject matter experts and project teams to coordinate all aspects of the deal and deliver the required outcomes

Qualifications

• 3-7 years of relevant experience along with any language -

  Arabic, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese

  .
• Indirect category sourcing experience
• Business acumen with demonstrated success in delivering a multi-year strategy ensuring competitive commercial advantage
• Demonstrated ability to forge close business relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all management levels
• Skilled procurement negotiator adept at leading negotiations with both external and internal stakeholders
• Good understanding of market drivers effecting category; strong commitment to keeping abreast of trends
• Finely honed project and change management skills
• In depth understanding of latest tools for executing sourcing strategies
• Experience managing the delivery of large projects and with end-to-end service / operations management
• Strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills. Financial services an advantage
• Strong adherence to risk and controls requirements and processes
• High degree of structure and organisation to coordinate multiple workstreams and projects

How you’ll grow

At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help build world-class skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing

business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs at Deloitte University, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career. Explore Deloitte University, The Leadership Centre.

Benefits

At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits.

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Our purpose

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Every day, Deloitte people are making a real impact in the places they live and work. We pride ourselves on doing not only what is good for clients, but also what is good for our people and the communities in which we live and work—always striving to be an organization that is held up as a role model of quality, integrity, and positive change.

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