What you will do

Prudential's Global Sourcing and Procurement (GSP) empowers Prudential globally to drive the greatest value by leveraging supplier partnership. GSP provides our global customers easy access to products and services at the greatest value through business insights, market knowledge, seamless and efficient processes, and professional expertise.

This role of EMEA Procurement Director (IPD) will provide dedicated sourcing and vendor management support to PGIM's EMEA businesses. The role will support PGIM's rapid growth and expansion outside of the US through partnering with Prudential's category management to ensure that PGIM is working with high performing and cost-effective suppliers.

Your role will be a key member of Prudential's category team and will partners closely with PGIM EMEA Stakeholders, Legal, Vendor Governance and the GSP Procurement and Category Management team to provide best-in-class procurement support to Prudential on critical initiatives.

What you can expect

• Business Partnering: Become a trusted business advisor, adding actionable insight and knowledge to PGIM.
  
  - Strong relationships with PGIM operations team to ensure early procurement partnership to achieve faster and better results.
  - Being a single point-of-contact for PGIM EMEA, supporting issue resolution and driving stakeholder value
  - Creating customized data analytics back to businesses to provide insight across sourcing and procurement.
• Category Management: Drive maximum value from external spend globally by:
  
  - Partnering with the category management teams to cultivate bold and diverse while ensuring business alignment and incorporating market intelligence, tech forward solutions and detailed sourcing / savings plans.
  - Being accountable for leading sourcing (RFP's), negotiations and contracting, performance management and issue resolution.
  - Support in vendor relationship management across PGIM vendors.
• Supplier Sustainability: Champion Supplier Diversity and Sustainability, including but not limited to providing opportunity to diverse suppliers and increasing vendor reporting with CDP.
• Leadership: Act with integrity, lead inclusively and drive higher performance through collaboration with GSP and your partners in the business.

What you will bring

• Ability to work autonomously using exceptional customer relationship and influencing skills with senior stakeholders.
• Extensive prior experience in vendor management, procurement, or a strategic sourcing organization.
• Candidates with strong international sourcing and contract negotiation
• Superior analytical ability to quickly gather facts, perform root cause analysis and draw conclusions.
• Bachelor's degree
• Extensive experience managing change across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Superior negotiation skills to influence senior leadership on strategic direction, business case value proposition and sourcing recommendations.

What will set you apart?

• Strong conceptual thinking skills with adeptness to lead others through ambiguous and/or complex issues.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks concurrently and knowledge of business requirement and project management principles and methodology.
• Ability to build consensus and act as an independent arbiter to achieve sourcing outcomes that meet business requirements without sacrificing service or increasing risk/cost.

*PGIM welcomes all applicants, even if you don't meet every requirement. If your skills align with the role, we encourage you to apply.

What we offer you

• Private Medical Insurance: PGIM offers private medical insurance and pays the full premium on behalf of all employees.
• Annual Leave of 25 to 28 days, based on years of service, at full pay.
• Retirement Savings Plan: Employees receive a company contribution of 10% basic annual salary and a maximum employer-matching contribution of 5% of basic annual salary.
• Life Assurance & Income Protection: Life Assurance for 12 times your basic annual salary, up to a max benefit of £1.8million. 60% of your basic annual salary for a limited payment term of 5 years, at the end of which a capital sum of 2x your basic annual salary is payable.

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About PGIM - Global Asset Management

PGIM is the global asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), a leading global investment manager with nearly US $1.4 trillion in assets under management as of 30 September 2024. With offices in 18 countries, PGIM's businesses offer a range of investment solutions for retail and institutional investors around the world across a broad range of asset classes, including public fixed income, private fixed income, fundamental equity, quantitative equity, real estate, and alternatives.

With a history dating back 148 years, and experience through more than 30 market cycles, PGIM takes a long-term view, not only in our investment philosophy, but also in how we develop our talent. We want to see our employees excel from their first day with the firm and throughout their tenure with PGIM. We will inspire you, support you, and help you reach your greatest personal and professional aspirations. If PGIM sounds like the place for you, join us. For more information about PGIM, visit PGIM.com.

Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

PGIM has a long-held commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, rooted in the belief that this is a prerequisite for PGIM's success and sustainability. We work to attract, retain, develop, and promote talent at all levels and aim to have a workforce that reflects the communities where we work, live, and invest. We are intentional about creating a workplace where everyone has a voice and is welcomed, valued, respected, and understood. From the moment people join PGIM, we pledge to help them unlock their full potential. Together, we are shaping a future where talent knows no boundaries.

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Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Prudential is a multinational financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real estate services, some of which may not be available in your area.

We recognize that our strength and success are directly linked to the quality and skills of our diverse associates. We are proud to be a place where talented people who want to make a difference can grow as professionals, leaders, and as individuals. Visit www.prudential.com to learn more about our values, our history and our brand.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status , medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.