# Senior Sourcing Manager, Marketing Category

**Company**: Visa
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Visa Europe Sourcing has an opportunity for an experienced and commercially minded Senior Sourcing Manager, specialising in the Marketing Category, to join our team.

This is a senior category role focused on partnering with Marketing stakeholders and leading complex, high-value sourcing activity across a range of Marketing categories. You will work with strategic suppliers and agency partners, lead significant commercial negotiations and help shape sourcing strategies that deliver value for Visa across Europe.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead sourcing and category management across a significant Marketing category or portfolio of categories.

- Lead complex, high-value commercial negotiations and sourcing processes, managing significant levels of spend.

- Develop and execute category strategies that align with Marketing priorities and Visa's wider business objectives.

- Act as a strategic Sourcing Business Partner to Marketing stakeholders, building strong relationships and providing commercial challenge and guidance.

- Lead and manage relationships and commercial negotiations with major strategic suppliers and agency partners.

- Lead end-to-end sourcing processes, including supplier selection, negotiation, contracting and ongoing supplier management.

- Identify opportunities to deliver commercial value, efficiencies and improvements across the Marketing supply base.

- Use data, market knowledge and commercial insight to inform sourcing decisions and category strategies.

- Work effectively across a complex, matrixed organisation, influencing senior stakeholders and collaborating across functions and geographies.

- Incorporate responsible sourcing, risk management and effective governance into category activities.

- Support continuous improvement and the adoption of digital tools, analytics and emerging technologies within Sourcing, including the use of AI to improve delivery efficiency and ways of working.

**Qualifications**

- Strong experience in Marketing Procurement, Marketing Sourcing or Marketing Category Management, with broad exposure across multiple Marketing subcategories.

- Ability to manage a high volume of competing priorities, demonstrating resilience and sound judgement in prioritising effectively in a fast-paced environment.

- Demonstrable experience leading significant, complex and high-value sourcing activities and commercial negotiations.

- Experience managing substantial Marketing spend and commercial relationships with large strategic suppliers and/or agency partners.

- Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to understand complex contracts, challenge proposals and negotiate effectively.

- Experience developing and implementing category and sourcing strategies.

- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience partnering with senior stakeholders.

- Experience operating successfully within a large and/or matrixed organisation.

- Ability to work effectively across teams and geographies and adapt to changing business priorities.

- Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.

- Confidence using AI and digital tools, or a strong curiosity and willingness to explore how emerging technologies can improve efficiency and ways of working.

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## Skills

### Required
- Marketing Procurement
- Category Management
- Commercial Negotiations
- Strategic Sourcing
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Data Analysis
- Digital Tools
- AI

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