ProcurementManager

**Job Description:** Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in over 145 countries and regions, it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations, combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media, CXM and Creative, while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands, people and society. We’re hiring a Procurement Manager as part of our team based from our London office. **Purpose of the Role** The exciting role will involve taking individual ownership for identifying cost-saving and value-add opportunities, as well as driving efficiencies across multiple Indirect Procurement categories within a dynamic and expanding team. The role will necessitate collaboration at a global, regional and brand-level, interacting with a diverse network of colleagues and 3rd party service providers. Within dentsu Global Functions Procurement, our focus is to deliver value for money through commercially sound agreements and to enable business improvements and efficiencies via supplier sourcing and relationship management. The role will require applying strategic sourcing methodology and supplier/stakeholder management principles to deliver savings and service improvements in line with our OneDentsu objectives. **Key Responsibilities** * Ownership of selected spend over an array of Categories, which may include Professional Services, HR, Finance, Marketing & Communications, Social Impact and others as required. * Development of global frameworks with favourable and robust global or multi-entity contractual terms, contributing to the evolution of our central and locally led agreements. * Running RFx and competitive sourci