Procurement Manager

Procurement Manager

Salary: £40k-£45k doe

Full Time Permanent Opportunity

Location: Hybrid (UK), with travel to our Northampton office 1-2 days per week

Procurement Manager

Leading Procurement categories, working with business stakeholders to develop long term strategies to deliver quality, value, and service. Through category management develop strong supplier relationships to deliver innovation, compliance, cost benefits and mitigate risk.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to the business on all procurement related activity within portfolio.
• Develop and implement category strategies that are aligned to Procurement Strategic Objectives.
• Track and report on the progress of the agreed Procurement plan.
• Data and analysis to identify trends and opportunities to drive efficiency and value.
• Early engagement with operational and support teams to determine their product and service needs.
• Monitor business trends and market insight to identify and develop potential new sources of supply.
• Conduct RFP’s with stakeholders, producing analysis of total cost of goods and services to identify savings and efficiencies with a clear business cases for change.
• Ensure contracts are agreed and implemented with all suppliers.
• Develop strong and genuine relationships with suppliers to drive value and a ‘customer of choice’ approach.
• Manage and measure supplier performance to maintain quality of service and continuous improvement.
• Mitigate risk in the supply chain by ensuring the correct due diligence on suppliers on an ongoing basis.
• Provide support and training for Procure to Pay system users.
• Support the development and compliance to policies and procedures across the business.
• Work with finance to resolve supplier payment issues, maintain costs, highlight savings, and mitigate cost where possible.

Responsible For:

• Tendering, negotiation and contracting with suppliers.
• Savings and efficiencies.
• Supplier relationship management and performance.
• Cost Control.
• Driving value, innovation, and efficiency.
• Policies and procedures.
• Procure to Pay maintenance and control.
• Procurement system user support and process improvement.
• Stakeholder engagement business collaboration.

Essential Requirements:

• Proven track record as a Procurement Manager.
• Knowledge of sourcing and procurement techniques.
• Demonstrates skill in negotiations.
• Proven networking and relationship building skills.
• Competent with Microsoft Office and other applications.
• Aptitude in data driven decision making.
• Strong data and analysis capability.
• Demonstrable leadership capabilities.

Desirable Skills :

• Procurement experience in a medium to large sized business.
• Experience with business transformation and change.

Qualifications:

• Degree level or the equivalent in experience.
• A level.
• MCIPS or working towards this qualification.

Provide day to day support to Operations and Support functions to maintain high performance of the 3rd party supply base to maximise quality and standards within our business.

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent influencer, and effective communicator (oral and in writing).
• Competent presenter and logical thinker.
• Highly motivated and driven, achieving positive impact and meeting deadlines.
• Ability to build trust and develop cohesive relationships – strong empathy, clear expectations and fair-minded.
• High energy and thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment - calm approach and ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Encourages colleagues to realise their potential and empowers high performers.
• Able to interpret data and provide detailed analysis to effectively to inform strategy, measure impact and drive quality.

A full DBS check is needed for this role.

We look forward to receiving your application!

If you experience any problems, please email europe.recruitment@brighthorizons.com and we will be happy to help.

Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. Therefore, it is essential in making your application that you disclose any information requested in respect of applicable convictions and cautions (including, as applicable any reprimands or final warnings). This post may be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, in which case applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act unless the conviction or caution is “protected” as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). Any such ‘protected’ conviction or caution is not subject to disclosure to employers, and cannot be taken into account. All guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found in the DBS filtering collection, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dbs-filtering-guidance . The fact that a pending charge, conviction, caution, reprimand or final warning has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this role but any failure to disclose any such information will result in dismissal or disciplinary action.