Supplier Management Specialist

Supplier Management Specialist role at RELX involves managing strategic supplier performance, contracts, and partnerships to improve quality, service, cost, and operational outcomes. The role requires using data, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement to manage risk and strengthen an end-to-end supply chain.

Key Responsibilities

• Supplier Performance Management: Manage strategic supplier performance by maintaining scorecards, KPIs, reports, reviews, and meetings, and monitor contracts and SLAs to improve service, quality, cost, and operations.

• Contract Management: Manage supplier contracts throughout their lifecycle, monitor obligations, pricing, and service commitments, and support renewals, amendments, and extensions.

• Tender and Supplier Selection Support: Support sourcing and tender activities, contribute to RFPs, RFIs, evaluations, and due diligence, and assist with supplier assessments, onboarding, and transitions.

• Financial and Commercial Management: Track supplier spend, volumes, and cost trends, measure results against budgets and targets, and support invoice checks and payment resolution.

• Risk and Business Continuity: Work with Risk Management and Operations to assess operational, financial, geopolitical, cybersecurity, sustainability, and compliance risks.

• Supplier Governance: Ensure compliance with company policies, regulations, sustainability commitments, and ethical standards while supporting onboarding and ongoing governance.

• Data, Reporting, and Insights: Maintain supplier dashboards and reports, analyze operational and commercial data, and identify trends and improvement opportunities.

• Collaboration: Partner with Procurement, Operations, Finance, Customer Service, Planning, Risk Management, Legal, and other teams to prevent silos and promote an integrated supply chain.

Requirements

• Demonstrate a strong commitment to achieving goals, take responsibility for group outcomes, and encourage accountability and ownership.

• Serve as a subject matter expert and provide coaching and mentoring to others while explaining complex technical matters clearly.

• Provide clear instructions and direction, listen actively, ask effective questions, and consider different viewpoints.

• Manage unexpected situations independently, act with confidence, and remove obstacles.

• Ask relevant questions, gather facts from multiple sources, and identify and analyze problems.

• Promote cooperation across the team and support the effective resolution of conflicts.

• Identify opportunities for teams to collaborate and seek input and expertise from team members.

• Provide support without reducing individual ownership to help individuals and teams achieve their objectives.