# Interim Senior Sourcing Manager

**Company**: Linklaters
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

The Interim Senior Sourcing Manager will lead and manage Operations sourcing at Linklaters, including hard and soft facilities management services, while supporting team members across the wider non-technology categories.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Leading and managing Operations sourcing during the interim assignment

- Providing practical guidance and commercial support to sourcing team members

- Collaborating with the Senior Sourcing Manager for Technology where required

- Fostering collaboration across teams and regions

- Leading complex, high-value, and strategic Operations sourcing projects

- Driving contract and commercial negotiations for key agreements

- Collaborating with Legal, Finance, Data Privacy, and Information Security teams

- Supporting Linklaters' global category oversight

- Developing and executing sourcing strategies for Operations

- Overseeing supplier management processes

- Performing spend reviews to identify opportunities for cost consolidation

- Partnering with business teams globally to meet sourcing needs

- Developing and implementing strategies to drive ESG and sustainability initiatives

- Identifying and implementing improvements to sourcing processes

- Planning and managing change effectively

- Supporting the evolution of the sourcing function by exploring technology advancements

**Requirements:**

- Proven sourcing and supplier management experience

- 5 to 10 years of experience in a professional services firm or equivalent

- Experience in purchasing technology-related goods and services is strongly desirable

## Skills

### Required
- sourcing
- supplier management
- contract negotiation
- strategic planning

### Nice to have
- technology-related goods and services
- cloud solutions
- software
- hardware

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