Intern - Procurement

Job Description

Please note that this role is based in the United Kingdom. In order to enable us to meet statutory and regulatory obligations of the United Kingdom immigration system you must have the appropriate immigration permission needed to work and reside in the United Kingdom.

This role will be a full-time, 12 month fixed term contract starting in July 2025 and will be paid London living wage.

In order to be considered for this role you must submit your CV as well a Cover Letter explaining what relevant skills or experience you will bring to the internship.

In addition, your Cover Letter should answer one of the following questions (please ensure that your Cover Letter is no more than 500 words in total, inclusive of the answer to one of the below questions):
• What challenges do Film studios face? OR;
• What do you know about Procurement?
Only applications that attach both documents will be considered.

The Global Procurement department supports Sony Pictures' executives to buy goods & services through quick and easy processes, from the right suppliers, for the best overall value globally.

SPE Procurement includes four areas; Strategic Sourcing, Procurement Operations, Travel and Responsible Sourcing, with the bulk of the 70+ employees being based in LA. Within the Strategic Sourcing area, there are eight categories: Travel, Content Distribution Services, Corporate Services, Marketing, IT, Production and Professional Services.

We are looking for a passionate and motivated intern to support the London based Strategic Sourcing team (5 employees), with a particular focus on the Marketing and Production Sourcing category teams. There may also be opportunities to support other category leads based in London e.g. Corporate Services Procurement (including Facilities) and Professional Services Procurement.

What you'll do:

You will assist with and take ownership of a number of projects to help ensure our partner's procurement requirements are met. This will include:
• Capturing stakeholder requirements
• Designing and running Request for Proposal (RFP) processes
• Engaging and negotiating with potential vendors
• Analysing and evaluating vendor proposals
• Presenting to and engaging with collaborators
• Awarding business to vendors and drafting the related contract documents.

The projects will primarily be within the Marketing and Production category team, however there will be opportunities to assist with projects in the Professional Services and Corporate Services categories.

Marketing and Production subcategories:
• Media
• Creative
• PR & Promotions
• Print
• Market Research
• Market Operations
• Production Goods
• Production Services

As the Procurement intern, you will work with a variety of team members across internal business units (such as the Motion Picture Group (MPG) and Home Entertainment and TV Distribution) as well as those in different territories (EMEA, LATAM, North America).

What you have:
• Research Focused and Analytical
• Curiosity to gain new knowledge and research required facts about suppliers e.g. company websites etc.
• Ability to analyse data sets ( e.g. supplier proposals) to find trends and useful observations and provide options/recommendations based on the data
• A thoughtful and motivated team Player
• Enjoy working with cross functional teams ( e.g. Marketing, Finance, etc ).
• Structured, with the ability to prioritise whilst delivering numerous projects to the expected quality and required timescales.
• Presentation skills
• Able to present complex analysis and data to a range of stakeholders in succinct and engaging way
• Personable and persuasive communicator when building relationships internally and externally, across different seniority levels.
• Have strong numerate literacy and great attention to detail when carrying our procurement processes and analysing vendor proposals
• Some experience with Microsoft 365 applications, e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.

What you'll learn:
• A strong understanding of the end-to-end procurement process in a large international production company.
• How to support various Request for Proposal (RFP) processes. For example capturing information from suppliers to evaluate proposals, carrying out analysis of pricing proposals, compiling decks to compare proposals etc.
• Learning to analyse Supplier Spend data and presenting this in well structured PowerPoint slides
• Project management skills
• Assisting with the delivery of projects to a high standard and to varying timescales
• Specific industry and market knowledge ( e.g. Entertainment & Film)
• Specific category knowledge ( e.g. marketing, production)
• Stakeholder management – learning to interact with a wide range of business collaborators:
• Negotiation skills and an understanding of contracts.
• Financial acumen e.g. understanding of key cost drivers and the impact on total cost

How we take care of you:
• A choice of comprehensive health plan options that fit your lifestyle including private medical insurance.
• Rest and recharge during a week off during the winter holidays, in addition to the 25 days
of paid annual leave!
• Participate in extensive learning & development opportunities at all levels, including curated instructor-led classes and high impact online resources.
• Build your community by joining our Employee Business Resource Groups, and/or Sony Pictures Action – our racial equity and inclusion strategy.
• Access to an employee online store filled with a variety of discounted Sony products.
• Watch the newest movies and TV shows at our exclusive employee screenings at work.
• Entitlement to apply for an interest-free season ticket loan.
• Automatic enrolment in the Company's Pension Plan
• Free counselling and advisory service.
• You will be automatically enrolled in the Company's Life Insurance and Group Income Protection Plans subject to any applicable service requirements.
• The opportunity to attend various social events in our state-of-the-art
offices in Paddington.
• In addition to the above we have a range of other optional discounted benefits that are reviewed regularly (e.g., gym memberships, travel insurance, activity passes, car leasing, experience days and many more!)

If you require any reasonable adjustments with any part of the recruitment process, including the application or interview process, please contact us at uk_-_peopleandorganisation@spe.sony.com. Please put Reasonable Adjustment Request in the subject line of the email.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is committed to equal opportunity in all its employment practices, policies and procedures. No worker or potential worker will therefore receive less favourable treatment due to their race, age, creed, sexual orientation, colour , nationality, ethnic origin, disability, religion, gender, marital status
or Trade Union membership (if applicable).

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g6mzw8-13-59-35-116-42 in your application.