Director of Procurement

• *About the team:**

The successful candidate will work in close partnership with the VP Direct Spend, and executive level business partners in defining and implementing activities necessary to meet the business objectives.

• *About the role:**

The RELX Group Global Procurement (GP) function is a strategic procurement organization with global responsibilities for the sourcing of direct and indirect spend categories. The successful candidate will be a key member of the Direct Spend Management Team.

Within the assigned areas of responsibility, the Director, Global Procurement is responsible for developing and implementing effective spend management initiatives in Editorial, Production and Operations procurement while working cooperatively with local business units to ensure legal and policy compliance.

The candidate must develop collaborative relationships, shared objectives, and early engagement with the RELX Group business units to ensure projects and process/workflow related opportunities are identified, evaluated and standardized in a way that will drive efficiencies and project cost savings.

• *The key objectives are:
• Develop, implement and articulate innovative and effective YoY procurement category strategies based on use of relevant market resources, strategic needs of supported business units, analytics of internal and external data sources including spend, knowledge of supplier services and capabilities, , and technological developments for the Editorial, Production and Operations services throughout RELX Group.
• Evaluate and recommend strategic business opportunities in Editorial, Production and Operations services throughout divisions, utilizing industry knowledge and resources, current and emerging business models, and subject matter expertise as well as procurement expertise.
• Successfully manage, develop and coach global team to drive change and achieve results.
• Enable team to provide strategic procurement expertise, partnership and support throughout RELX.
• Demonstrate executive leadership through active participation in Global Direct Spend Management Team (DSMT) and Global Procurement’s Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and other executive gatherings.
• *Responsibilities:
• Procurement Strategy -

Evaluates business requirements for assigned Direct Spend responsibilities

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agrees shared objectives with the business,

and creates a short term and long term Direct Spend procurement strategy with clear and measurable deliverables and timeframe.

Direct Spend categories include: Editorial services, Production services, and Operations services

• Data, Trends, Analyses –

Determines strategy and execution for collection of internal and external data for successful category management. Educates and guides category teams to identify opportunities within data. Demonstrates effective analysis and use of tools such as Co-pilot or ChatGPT. Provides day-to-day leadership for category operations, strategic planning and supplier performance leading to cost savings, improved performance and effective management of category spend. Provides strategic support to businesses on special projects. Ensures GP category spend data is cleansed and reviewed quarterly. Ensures category trackers are updated. Enables visualization of available data for strategic dashboards.

• Project Management -

Oversees global procurement sourcing project management by using standardized procurement project templates and sourcing platform across RELX Group business areas. Provides strong direction on managing projects effectively and demonstrates expertise for the implementation of strategic plans and achievement of objectives. Approves and delivers end-to-end project plans and achieves milestones and outcomes.

• Systems and Tools -

Advises and provides consultation with GP Management Team, Executive Leadership Team, DSMT, GP Finance and Program Management Office (PMO) colleagues and Business executive management for implementation of processes, systems and projects.

• Process Improvements -

Participates in the ongoing improvement and cost effectiveness of procurement service delivery by driving the compliance of internal procurement systems and demonstrating process improvements, monitoring best practices, continuously upgrading services and technology, and reviewing best source of service provisions. Participates in reengineering efforts to improve business practices across RELX Group procurement and focuses on changing business needs and improving operating results. Supports analyses on work processes, workflows, and procedures and recommends changes to improve the effectiveness of the organization. Cultivates a positive environment o