About the role

Senior Category Strategy Manager shaping Flutter's procurement strategies across multiple regions. Driving transformation in supplier management and spending through strategic advisement and collaboration.

Responsibilities

Establish strong relationships with the assigned brand/region Xco and Divisional LT level , internal business stakeholders; building a strong understanding of the brand/regions strategic business direction, requirements and priorities and combining that with BI to build category strategies to drive effective management of Flutters 3rd party spend.
Collaborate with brand/regional Sourcing teams to develop and implement comprehensive sourcing strategies for key spend categories to achieve cost reductions, supply assurance, innovation and value creation.
Support ongoing review of strategies with stakeholders and maintain strategy packs and socialisation of target delivery / updates with global procurement colleagues.
Partner our PBMI team to conduct market analysis, supplier benchmarking and spend analysis to inform category strategies.
Drive initiatives to achieve cost savings targets, including leveraging economies of scale, optimising sourcing channels, utilising our Sourcing tools such as Coupa and SIM.ON.
Align with our Supplier Management and Risk teams to identify critical suppliers and support strategies for risk mitigation, for local/regional partnerships and core suppliers for key categories for acquisitions.
Act as a “trusted advisor” to Senior Flutter Brand leaders in terms of category strategy and spend management.

Significant experience of strategic sourcing /risk/supplier management role , ideally within a multinational corporation.
Proven ability to capture, prepare and deliver Category Strategies to ExCo and key internal leaders.
The ability to manage up and down the chain in a large complex organisation.
In-depth knowledge/ experience in best-in-class procurement practices (category management, spend and data analytics, bench-marking , RFX, end to end contract management , etc.).
Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder influencing skills.
Strong experience assessing opportunity and concisely explaining complex issues to key business owners.
Extremely customer-focused and takes the time to understand the needs of the business.
Experienced in working in a large, global, federal organisation.
Strong analytical skills including the ability to quickly analyse , distil and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data and lead a team specialising in this space.
Passionate self-starter with the highest level of integrity and ethics.