Assistant Category Manager

Some careers are more impactful than others.

Our Digital Business Services teams are the foundation of HSBC, providing essential support across technology, operations and key central business services for our global businesses and functions. We play a vital role in driving great experiences for customers and colleagues, and enabling the bank’s strategy. We offer a broad range of career opportunities.

Our role is to:

• Deliver efficient, easy customer experiences that add value.
• Empower our people, through the right technology, infrastructure and support.
• Enable the bank, through innovative solutions that support our strategy.
• Implement major strategic transformation programmes and support change management across the bank.
• Provide professional services such as procurement and real estate management

Strategic Sourcing Services manages commercial relationships and partnerships with key suppliers, and the end-to-end supplier life-cycle. We play a fundamental role in the day-to-day provision of goods and services for the HSBC Group. Our primary focus is to deliver commercial value through all areas of procurement worldwide. We work closely with other parts of HSBC to provide leadership of the bank’s third-party supplier relationships.

Role Purpose:

On a global, regional and local basis, lead strategy and planning for a Procurement sub-category to deliver competitive advantage for HSBC business through cost savings, lifecycle value generation, demand management and innovation.

The role will support the Category Manager and the Category Lead in working closely with stakeholders within the Bank’s global Travel, Events & Fleet team.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading end to end planning and execution of sourcing projects
• Developing and maintaining a global stakeholder network in a complex and dynamic business environment.
• Driving business outcomes and behaviours with subject matter expertise to drive value through the category planning lifecycle.
• Supporting the creation of sub-category strategies
• Seeking alternatives to current category specifications

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• Experience in analysing and presenting complex detail in a clear and easy to understand format
• Strong interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to build relationships with stakeholders and/ or external parties
• A background in negotiation and influencing
• A good understanding of the financial services industry, strategic requirements, and key risks facing financial services institutions

The base location for this role will be Sheffield with hybrid working

You’ll achieve more when with HSBC.

HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme, and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please contact our Recruitment Helpdesk:

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