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Senior Strategic Supplier Manager
Senior Strategic Supplier Manager
Job Title: Senior Strategic Supplier Manager
Location: (London, Leeds or Dublin - 2 days office based)
Contract type: Permanent / Full time / Hybrid
Are you ready to help shape the future of Supplier Management at Flutter?
We're looking for an exceptional Senior Strategic Supplier Manager to play a pivotal role in establishing and proving our approach to Supplier Management across Flutter. You'll join us at an exciting stage in our transformation, as we drive a step change in our Supplier Management function that strengthens strategic relationships, improves performance, manages risk and maximises the value delivered by our most strategic and critical suppliers.
This is more than a traditional supplier management role. As an individual contributor, you'll work with significant autonomy across Flutter Functions discovering how supplier relationships are managed today, identifying opportunities and gaps, and translating these insights into practical Supplier Management approaches that can be tested, proven and scaled.
You'll need to be comfortable navigating ambiguity, challenging established ways of working and influencing senior stakeholders with differing priorities across different geographies. If you thrive on solving complex problems and turning supplier relationships into strategic business partnerships, this is an opportunity to make a significant impact.
Role Overview
As Senior Strategic Supplier Manager, you will directly manage a portfolio of strategic and critical suppliers across Flutter, while contributing to the discovery and evolution of Flutter's wider Supplier Management capability.
You will assess existing supplier management practices, establish strong relationships with business stakeholders and suppliers across your remit, and identify where improved governance, performance management, commercial management and risk oversight can deliver measurable business value.
A key part of the role will be proving the value of Supplier Management through delivery — using insights and outcomes from your supplier portfolio to inform the consistent, scalable global approach.
What you’ll do
Discovery & Capability Contribution
- Lead discovery across your supplier portfolio, assessing current relationships, governance, performance, commercial arrangements, risks and opportunities.
- Identify gaps in current Supplier Management practices and prioritise opportunities to improve business outcomes.
- Contribute to proving Flutter's Supplier Management approach, working closely with the Associate Director and the procurement transformation team as they develop the wider operating model.
- Demonstrate the value of Supplier Management through measurable improvements in performance, value, risk and stakeholder outcomes within your portfolio Work independently and proactively, creating structure and momentum where processes or ways of working are not yet fully established.
Supplier Strategy & Relationship Management
- Act as the senior commercial and relationship lead between Flutter and assigned strategic and critical suppliers.
- Develop supplier strategies aligned to Flutter’s business objectives and stakeholder priorities across your remit.
- Lead strategic business and performance reviews covering performance, risk, commercial value, innovation, future opportunities.
- Establish clear actions, ownership and accountability following supplier reviews.
- Influence supplier strategies, roadmaps and investment decisions to better support Flutter’s priorities.
- Identify and deliver continuous improvement opportunities across supplier performance, governance and ways of working.
Contract & Commercial Management
- Work with business stakeholders to identify opportunities to optimise spend, improve commercial outcomes and maximise value from existing agreements.
- Negotiate commercial terms, investments, commitments and value-add opportunities.
- Track contracted and committed spend, ensuring value is realised and contract leakage is minimised.
- Monitor renewals, amendments and compliance with contractual obligations.
- Partner with Finance, Business stakeholders and Procurement teams to establish effective cost governance, reporting, forecasting and consumption insights.
Performance, Risk & Governance
- Establish governance appropriate to the strategic importance and risk profile of each supplier.
- Apply Flutter’s Supplier Relationship and Performance Management approach across assigned suppliers.
- Define clear performance measures, scorecards and improvement plans.
- Proactively identify, assess and manage supplier risks, ensuring clear business ownership and mitigation plans.
- Collaborate with Business stakeholders, Legal, InfoSec, Compliance, Risk teams to provide a joined-up view of supplier risk and obligations.
- Escalate and resolve complex performance, commercial and relationship issues when required.
Stakeholder Leadership & Influence
- Build strong relationships with senior business, procurement and functional stakeholders across Flutter.
- Act as a trusted advisor, providing an objective view of supplier performance, risk, commercial value and strategic opportunity.
- Navigate complex and challenging stakeholder environments, constructively challenging established thinking where required.
- Build stakeholder buy-in, ownership and accountability for supplier strategies, improvement actions and key decisions.
- Balance competing business priorities and use data, insight and commercial judgement to influence outcomes.
How you’ll do it
- Significant experience (8+ years) managing strategic and critical suppliers in a large, complex global organisation.
- Experience of building, transforming or maturing Supplier Management / Supplier Relationship Management capability, rather than simply operating an established process.
- A strong discovery mindset, with the ability to quickly understand how things work today, identify gaps and translate findings into pragmatic solutions.
- The ability to operate independently and with a high degree of autonomy, particularly where processes, ownership or direction are not yet fully defined.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence, challenge and manage difficult or competing senior stakeholders.
- Strong commercial acumen and experience managing complex supplier relationships, contracts, performance and value.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn complex and disparate information into clear insights, recommendations and actions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting and storytelling.
- A proactive, pragmatic and delivery-focused mindset, with the ability to turn strategy into action and demonstrate measurable results.
What you'll get
We are a flexible employer; whether you have personal commitments or a hobby that brings you joy, we want you to bring your best self to work. We also like to share our success; after all you make it happen. Our Benefits package includes;
- Self-Development fund
- Wellbeing fund
- Uncapped holiday allowance
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- Discretionary annual performance bonus
- Invest via the Company Sharesave Scheme
- Paid volunteering time per year
- Enhanced parental leave
Flutter Entertainment ("Flutter") is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, ensuring every candidate can participate fully and fairly. We welcome requests for adjustments at any stage of the hiring journey and throughout employment.
If we are unable to meet a requested adjustment, we will work with you to explore suitable alternatives and ensure a fair and supportive process. Our goal is to enable all individuals to thrive, removing barriers so they can reach their full potential.
