Avp - Apacmea Procurement Client Partnership

Join us as an "AVP - APACMEA Procurement client partnership" at Barclays, where you'll find various aspect of Procurement activities and projects linking to support Bank’s franchise in APAC, Middle East, Africa and India. You will build excellent stakeholder management experience, further strengthen your knowledge on Sourcing and risk management associated with Third party services. To be successful as an AVP - APACMEA Procurement client partnership, you should have experience with: - Relevant experience (or potential to develop quickly) in Risk Management or Sourcing. - Role holder should have a good experience of commercial analysis and approaches/techniques necessary to achieve best in class Sourcing deals if needed. - Stakeholder and Commercial Management. - Excellent English verbal and written communication, and strong in reading comprehensions. - Highly organised with attention to details. - Ability to influence and build strong stakeholder relationships - Years of combined experiences in Procurement or other related functions. - Strong skill in Excel for data analysis. Desirable skillsets/ good to have: - Any Graduate / Post-Grad degree / MBA is a plus. - Experience working in consulting and financial industries. - Relevant knowledge of regulatory landscape. You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience in sourcing, third party risk management as well as job-specific skillsets. Location - Noida. **Purpose of the role** To partner with key stakeholders and forums to oversee Procurement service delivery, provide advice and develop procurement strategy to meet both the needs of the business and Procurement. **Accountabilities** - Development & implementation of the wider Procurement strategy in collaboration with stakeholders and Procurement domains. - Implementation of the procurement strategy aligned to the bank’s objectives and relevant regulators, through the prioritisation and use of Procurement resources. - Provide expertise on Procurement policies and procedures, third party risk, sourcing strategy and supplier relations to business stakeholders through education. - Act as a point of escalation for Procurement service and delivery issues for business stakeholders. - Act as the primary interface for Procurement with senior stakeholders in the business, developing & utilising relationships and influence to deliver improvements in key indicators and objectives. - Identification of & where applicable, delivery of opportunities for business cost savings, client experience, service improvement & Procurement efficiency. - Voice of the business with Procurement domains, developing and utilising relationships & influence to impact Procurement service delivery. - Provide insights and actionable intelligence to business stakeholders to support business decision making to improve the commercial & risk profile of the business. - Support the business with strategic activity acting as the Procurement representative for key business change programmes, acquisitions and divestments. **Assistant Vice President Expectations** - To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions. - Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes - If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others. - OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes. - Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues. - Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. - Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done. - Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function. - Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to