Sourcing & Contract Manager - Tech Platforms at CHEP

Job Description
Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Develop and execute sustainable category sourcing strategies for the region/function that align with global and local procurement priorities.
• Act as a champion for strategic sourcing, ensuring that procurement initiatives deliver long-term value and meet organizational needs.
• Lead category management for key spend areas, applying data-driven insights, market intelligence, and advanced procurement techniques to maximize value and minimize risk. Ensure category strategies consider external market factors and emerging trends that could impact business objectives.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with senior business stakeholders, ensuring procurement is involved early in the sourcing process. Leverage procurement’s expertise to align sourcing initiatives with business needs, offering strategic advice that enhances procurement’s role within the organization.
• Lead complex negotiations with suppliers to secure favorable terms and manage pricing strategies. Ensure the implementation of new pricing agreements, manage supplier contracts, and conduct ongoing reviews to ensure compliance with contractual terms.
• Oversee supplier performance management across key categories, ensuring suppliers consistently meet performance, quality, and cost requirements.
• Ensure all procurement activities adhere to regulatory requirements, internal policies, and ethical standards. Develop strategies to minimize supply chain risk, including mitigating supplier risk, financial exposure, and potential disruptions.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for the procurement function, ensuring alignment with annual targets. Provide regular updates on procurement performance, cost savings, supplier performance, and compliance metrics to senior leadership.

Requirements

• 5–8 years’ experience in Procurement or Strategic Sourcing, with a strong focus on global IT categories including Infrastructure, Networks, Hardware, Cloud, Enterprise Platforms, and End-User Technology.
• Proven success in strategic sourcing, category management, and negotiating complex, high-value IT contracts.
• Strong understanding of supplier and commercial risk management, including cybersecurity, compliance, and financial stability.
• Experience supporting large-scale IT programmes and delivering measurable cost savings, TCO reduction, and procurement value.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across IT, Finance, Legal, and business functions.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute global category strategies, drive procurement standardisation, and support supplier consolidation initiatives.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage end-to-end sourcing, contract lifecycle management, and supplier performance, ensuring compliance with procurement policies and standards.
• Deliver commercial value through cost optimisation across CAPEX and OPEX while supporting strategic supplier partnerships.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders and align procurement activities to business priorities.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate supplier, contractual, and commercial risks.
• Drive procurement process improvement, standardisation, and collaboration across the wider procurement team to achieve category and business objectives.