Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Global Sourcing and Supplier Manager to join our global team.
Team and Job Purpose
Team Purpose
The vision of Save the Children’s Supply Chain is to ensure that children can access quality goods and services at all times to help them survive, learn, and be protected.
Our mission is to provide goods and services at the right time, quality, and cost, enabling impactful, safe, and sustainable program delivery for children.
The Procurement function includes over 500 colleagues across more than 50 countries, managing over 15,000 suppliers and sourcing goods and services worth over $400 million annually. After staff salaries, this is Save the Children’s largest area of expenditure, playing a critical role in enabling our programmes and advocacy work to deliver impact for children.
We are committed to delivering:
- Compliant and efficient procurement
- A strong commercial mindset
- A focus on sustainability and service excellence
- This is supported by:
- Sector-leading policies and procedures
- Comprehensive training programmes
- A pioneering supplier sustainability initiative
- An award-winning Source-to-Pay technology platform
Strategic Sourcing Team
The Strategic Sourcing Team is a core part of Procurement, responsible for shaping and implementing sourcing strategies across all office locations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading above-country sourcing to ensure the right global supply solutions are in place
- Managing suppliers to maximize value for money
- Implementing category strategies for locally sourced goods and services
- Supporting local procurement teams through training, capacity building, and ad hoc guidance
- Ensuring procurement policies, procedures, and tools are current, relevant, and well understood
Role purpose
The Global Sourcing and Supplier Manager is responsible for enabling the Strategic Sourcing Team to achieve its objectives as detailed above. They will complete a variety of activities and hold multiple responsibilities as per the strategy/priorities, candidate’s interests and current portfolio of sourcing demand and capability initiatives.
Job Title: Global Sourcing and Supplier Manager
Reports To: Senior Manager, Global Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Management
Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available
Contract Length: Permanent
Grade: P4
Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location. For a full list of locations that Save the Children International can hire in, please visit: SCI Careers
Time Zone: Any
Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment.
Language Requirements: English
International Travel Requirements: Limited <5%
Principal Accountabilities
- Lead and own designated categories of spend, driving strategy, planning, and execution to maximize impact and value.
- Manage global supplier relationships within assigned categories, ensuring high performance, compliance, and cost efficiency.
- Deliver global sourcing initiatives and provide strategic support to Country Offices, ensuring best value and contribution to global financial targets.
- Champion and implement project-based initiatives to simplify, innovate, and enhance procurement processes across the organization.
- Strengthen the skills and capabilities of colleagues through coaching, training, and hands-on support.
- Prepare, analyze, and interpret procurement and sourcing data, delivering clear insights and recommendations through well-structured presentations (e.g., PowerPoint).
- Oversee high-value, country-led procurement to ensure adherence to policy, optimal value for money, and risk mitigation.
- Drive the adoption and effective use of ProSave (Save the Children’s SAP Ariba Source-to-Pay system) to standardize and optimize procurement operations.
Experience and Skills
Essential
- Clear desire and motivation to work in the not-for-profit sector
- Significant experience in Category Management, with a strong track record of delivering value through strategic sourcing initiatives.
- Sourcing (multiple multi-million-dollar processes completed with evidence of successful implementation – e.g. financial benefits, stakeholder feedback etc.)
- Experience of Procurement Operations / Buying activities
- Knowledge of using e-procurement systems (SAP Ariba is desirable)
- Analytical skills and critical thinking / problem solving skills
- Project management
- Stakeholder management and influencing skills (to a senior level)
Desirable
- Experience of working in a large international organisation (Non-Profit)/ Private Sector
- Knowledge of specific categories of spend specific to the role (e.g. IT, Pharmaceuticals, CVA, NFI’s, Fleet)
- Experience of leading training programmes / activity on complex procurement matters or categories.
- French, Spanish or Arabic language fluency
Education and Qualifications
Desirable
- Degree in Business, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain management or similar.
Working at Save the Children International
Save the Children is the world's leading organisation for children, employing ~25,000 staff. We save children's lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Through our work in 116 countries, we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.
We know that great people make a great organisation, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding. At Save the Children, you will be in good company, working with talented, like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive, learn, and are protected. Your contribution will help ensure children's voices are heard at the highest levels, and that we achieve our global strategy, Ambition for Children 2030, and reach every last child.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities
DEI is core to our vision, values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.
We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, caring or parental responsibilities, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.
Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.
Application Information
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found here via the job listing. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.
Our recruitment process:
Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter
Two-stage competency-based interviews with the hiring team
Some recruitment may include an additional assessment or case study stage, or a third stage interview
If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment, followed by your contract subject to passing background checks
We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from abuse. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-harassment, Health and Safety, Safeguarding, and DEI and Equal Opportunities.
Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.