Procurement Business Partner

Job Title: Procurement Business Partner
Location: Noida

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective
Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.
If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

Introduction:
This role holder will assist the line manager of the Institutional Banking Procurement drive services and manage stakeholder relationship between Procurement and business ensuring procurement services are effectively managed and fully optimised. The role holder is accountable for assisting the line manager for executing Global Procurement agenda within the region for c. £~300m annual spend, supporting for ensuring delivery of services across all the Procurement towers.
It should be noted this role requires not only to support a traditional Procurement management such as implementation of global framework and system, but also requires a lead level when aligning with other functions in Procurement such as Sourcing, Supplier Management, and Operation teams. The role is accountable for supporting line manager for the delivery of procurement initiatives to improve the commercial, process, risk management, and service performance of the supply base across all procurement categories for business units in the APAC region.
This role shall communicate precisely and understand the requirements from key stakeholder, being able to seek solutions swiftly with agility. This role requires analytical skills to interpret data insights with MS Excel skill required at high level.

What will you be doing?
This Role is accountable for:

- Leveraging relationships with business stakeholders in APAC. Supporting client Lead APAC (line manager) to represent Procurement initiatives.
- Assisting line manager to ensure BU/Function and Procurement objectives are aligned. Demonstrate understanding of BI spend and provide inputs on process and Change initiatives.
- Be able to understand quality, commercial impact, risk profile and operational impact of sourcing deals and demonstrate good understanding (be able to pick up quickly) of Sourcing process as well as local requirement.
- Supporting line manager to analyse, escalate, and remediate BI APAC procurement related issues and able to assist seeking effective solution, and drive continuous improvement and simplification.
- Demonstrate or can develop good understanding on local regulatory requirement relevant to Procurement and support line manager for 3rd party risk related activities including local remediation associated with global regulatory changes. This role also needs to support team members from time to time, on 3rd party risk management activities from local regulatory requirements.
- An assisting role to line manager to face off to regulators in case of being required, and work with line manager and Procurement 3rd party risk team to assist on retrieving and reviewing relevant contents, data, and policies.

What we’re looking for:

- Good to have experience within Financial Services in areas like Sourcing, risk, and shared services.
- Self
- motivated, proactively driving things, and detail oriented with accuracy.
- Relevant Years of combined experience in Procurement or related front-to-bank support functions.

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Graduate, and MBA/Post-Grad degree is a plus.
- A 3rd language proficiency (Chinese or Korean) is a plus.
- Project management associated certificate is a plus.

Where will you be working?
Noida

Be More at Barclays
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