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Team Overview:
The Finance & Commercial department ensure Elexon drives cost efficiencies and that the company conducts its operations in a secure and controlled manner. The Finance team is responsible for both financial accounting and management reporting for Elexon. The Supply Chain Management team are accountable for procuring the goods and services required to deliver Elexon Products and wider services, as required by the business and negotiating contractual arrangements with third party suppliers delivering outsourced services. They are also responsible for the ongoing management of relationships with all suppliers in order to support and optimise service delivery and commercial performance from those suppliers.

Job Purpose:
The Supplier Manager will have direct responsibility for the commercial performance and management of our key service providers in our multi-vendor ecosystem maintaining excellent relationships via efficient governance and controls.

The role will:

• Serve as process owner and subject matter expert for Supplier and Contract Management
• Have advanced knowledge of Elexon’s key strategic contracts (worth over £10m per annum) and be the goto person for all contract, commercial and relationship enquiries
• Build and maintain strong cross functional relationships with business stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
• Responsible for owning the relationship with key strategic suppliers and ensure Executive (and Board if appropriate) are briefed on status of relationship as and when required
• Update processes and procedures to align to Agile ways of working, and ensure Contracts enable this delivery methodology
• Be proficient in financial management to manage and control costs
• Manage the Supplier commercial performance of suppliers
• Facilitate and drive collaboration between suppliers
• Lead and/or participate in Sourcing Strategy decisions for those services/contracts the role is responsible for, ensuring compliance with the BSC and Elexon Policies and Procedures.
• Support, mentor and coach junior members of the SCM team, as and when required

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Head of Supply Chain Management to deliver the Sourcing Strategy
• Responsible for the development and delivery of individual supplier strategies aligned with the overall Elexon business and Sourcing Strategies and appropriate technology roadmaps and business plans
• Work collaboratively with the SCM team to align to Agile ways of working, e.g. Governance and reporting, Contract Deal Principles, Standards for Exit Planning and testing, due diligence and market intelligence
• Conduct research to gather market intelligence on supplier markets, strengths and weaknesses on both existing suppliers and to identify potential new suppliers and market trends
• Be the subject matter expert for new or updated contracts ensuring key areas such as SLAs are negotiated as required by key stakeholders such as Product Managers /
• Product Owners / Business Designers
• Work with Elexon stakeholders to understand and manage the demand pipeline for SCM support, aligned to business change requirements and timescales e.g. supplier selection and contract change requirements
• Lead or support on the creation and delivery of all relevant business cases, papers, briefing notes and updates to various Elexon (internal and external) governance forums
• Responsible for leading and running contract procurement with new service providers or replacement services following the agile procurement process
• Work closely with Legal, HR, Finance and Business stakeholders to ensure contracts are drafted in line with the agreed Deal Principles and the BSC. This includes drafting key contract artefacts e.g. Pricing and Services Schedules to reflect the business requirements and the relevant supplier proposal

Capabilities and competencies:
Critical:

• Experience in a Supplier Management role dealing with complex IT contractual arrangements of significant value
• Proven experience of managing multi-vendor IT delivery models
• Experience in IT contracts and commercial models especially contracting for a multi-vendor ecosystem
• Significant experience in an ITIL aligned environment
• Proven experience in driving cost reduction and value for money in service agreements
• Experience with Agile contracting for IT services and commercial models in a multi-vendor ecosystem.
• Skilled Supplier negotiations and conflict management
• Skilled in commercial and numerical analysis, including a detailed understanding of service cost models and total cost of ownership
• Experience of preparing the supporting material for regular service performance reviews with IT service integrators/vendors monthly
• Ability to develop appropriate relationships with bidders, clients and suppliers

Elexon career path/ Potential next role(s):

• Head of Supply Chain Management
• Head of Service Management

In return, Elexon provides:

• £83,000
• 28 days annual holiday + Bank Holidays
• Discretionary annual incentive scheme
• Life assurance
• Pension
• Private medical (Bupa)
• Private dental (Bupa)

At Elexon, our employee wellbeing is particularly important to us, which is why we are proud to provide:

• Hybrid working - 2 days per week at our London office
• BUPA health check
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Eye care voucher scheme
• Subsidised gym membership
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Buying & selling holiday scheme
• Computing scheme
• CSR days
• Season ticket loan

We believe a diverse and inclusive culture allows innovation and creativity to flourish. We are committed to continuously improving our culture for our colleagues and stakeholders. Through our hugely successful Diversity Forum, MHFA network and regular programme of activities and events, we celebrate difference and recognise the value of employee wellbeing, which is a consistent outcome from annual employee surveys that we conduct. Likewise, as a community, we like to support each other, and all agree Elexon is a great place to work with a great workspace too!

At Elexon, we want to:

• Provide true equality of opportunity
• Attract and retain diverse talent
• Listen to all voices
• Be representative of the communities we work in
• Be a roles model for Diversity and Inclusion in the industry

Elexon together, embracing differences, listening to all voices