Sourcing Manager

Who are Benifex? 💚💜

We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in. 🚀

Why should you apply? 🌟

• Greenfield: As our first procurement hire you will lead sourcing and procurement for the business and show us what great sourcing looks like!


• Ownership: Have a high degree of autonomy, embedding procurement within Benifex


• Support: Have the support of our Zellis Group Procurement Director and wider Procurement team 


• Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and Best Large Tech Company to Work for 2025


• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space

**Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require to people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position**

Great benefits:

💰 £45,000 (some flexibility for the right person) 

🤸 Hybrid work – two days a week in our Bristol office (typically Tuesdays and Wednesdays), with odd travel to Southampton (expensed). 

💸 Full access to our comprehensive benefits package, including discounts from hundreds of high street brands, salary sacrifice schemes across Finance, Health, Tech, and more

✈️ 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays

🎂 Your birthday off

❤️ Two half day wellbeing days

🩺 Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day-to-day healthcare

🧠 Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support

🤒 Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)

💰 Referral bonuses

🌟 Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave

✈️ Work from Anywhere policy for 90 days

🏖️ Buy and Sell scheme for holidays

💳 £50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month!

Role Overview 🚀

To fuel our global growth we are hiring for a Sourcing Manager to manage the negotiation and contracting for all of our agreements. This is a greenfield role, joining a business where the procurement process has historically been owned within the business units. We are looking for someone who can partner with the business units proactively, enabling our growth and embed a strategic approach to procurement. 

Responsibilities 🤘

• Responsible for the day-to-day management of contracts in line with the Procurement Policy.


• Delivering sustainable savings across the supply base


• Ensuring procurement decisions are made in line with ESG principles that ensure best practice is adopted.


• Manage multiple procurement projects / contract renewals concurrently, prioritising and ensuring timely completion to meet business objectives and / or contract deadlines


• Responsible for planning on a monthly, quarterly, annual basis to develop a procurement pipeline


• Working with senior stakeholders within Benifex to deliver their strategic priorities with third party support.


• Building and maintaining long-term relationships with vendors and suppliers.


• Providing consultancy support to stakeholders who are utilising the business owned processes


• Providing market insights to relevant business areas who are considering tenders and/or changing suppliers.

What are we looking for? 🔎

Experience:

• Proven experience in a sourcing or procurement manager role, able to operate independently with minimal support/supervision 


• Experience sourcing software and services  


• Proficient in writing and reviewing legal documents (with referral points to legal where required)


• Ideally studying towards CIPS or have relevant education (business or legal)

 Competencies:

• Critical Thinking: Can evaluate detailed information critically and identify potential biases. Can develop logical arguments and support them with evidence.


• Commercial Acumen: Basic understanding of business operations, market dynamics, and the company's business model. Can identify potential opportunities and threats within the market.


• Influence: Can influence cross-functional teams without formal authority. Can influence others to support ideas and initiatives to achieve desired outcomes.


• Negotiation: Can identify key negotiation issues in complex scenarios and develop effective strategies. Can negotiate effectively to achieve favourable terms.


• Problem Solving: Can analyse complex problems, identify root causes, develop creative solutions and implement them effectively.


• Relationship Building: Cultivates effective, long lasting relationships within and outside the organisation. Can network effectively, influence and persuade others.


• Risk Management: 
  
  
  
  Can assess risks and develop mitigation strategies. Can monitor and control risks.
  
  

Even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow. We also offer a variety of other roles, so please check out our careers page to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you.

Our interview process

✌ Benifex understands the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible.

📞 Initial informal call with the Talent team

🧪 Online tests in numeracy and logical reasoning

⏳ Interview with the hiring manager and a member of the team

🤩 Final interview with Senior Leader

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.