Procurement Capabilities and Programmes Manager
Twinings Ovaltine
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Job summary
Twinings Ovaltine is seeking a Procurement Capabilities and Programmes Manager to lead global capability development across procurement, designing frameworks, learning programmes and career pathways. The role drives change, governance and knowledge management to support strategic objectives.
You will partner with HR and external providers, coordinate assessments across regions, and deliver measurable improvements in procurement capabilities and performance.
Qualifications
- Experience in Procurement Excellence or Capability Development.
- Ability to design competency models and knowledge management approaches.
- Track record delivering performance improvement initiatives.
- Strong analytical capabilities and data interpretation.
- Excellent project and programme management skills.
- Experience in global, matrix organisations and stakeholder engagement.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end capability framework strategy and updates.
- Coordinate cross-regional capability assessments and governance.
- Design structured development pathways and curricula using 70:20:10.
- Lead change management and stakeholder communications for frameworks.
- Measure programme benefits and drive continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with HR to integrate capability into recruitment and career paths.
- Maintain knowledge management practices and platforms for learning.
Skills
Job description
Application Deadline: 12 November 2026
Department: Tea Supply Chain
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Andover
Andover or Poland
Great People Work Here
Are you searching for a career with bags of variety, in an environment that celebrates differences and empowers collaboration, which values people and will encourage you to make an impact? Do you want the freedom to explore, and the opportunities to find new ways and to innovate? If so, TwiningsOvo delivers.
We’re looking for people who don’t just come here to get the job done, but who have a real passion for the brand and a desire to do the best job they can. In return, we offer an inspiring package of employee benefits - to show just how much we value you. This role will offer you the scope for growth and the tools to aim high. The Procurement Capabilities and Programmes Manager is responsible for driving capability development across the global Procurement function, now and for the future.
The role will lead the design, implementation and continuous improvement of Procurement capability frameworks, performance standards, development of career pathways and the delivery of learning programmes, ensuring the organisation has the knowledge, skills, behaviours and capabilities required to deliver its strategic objectives
- Develop and maintain the global Procurement Capability Framework, conducting periodic reviews to ensure the standards remain relevant.
- Define capability knowledge, skills and behavioural standards for all Procurement job families.
- Develop competency profiles for every Procurement role
- Monitor external trends, professional standards and identify emerging capability needs, translating them into updates to frameworks, programmes and learning priorities.
- Support talent reviews and succession planning through capability insights. Develop and maintain a Procurement Excellence knowledge management capability for the wider Procurement team to access
- Own the end-to-end Procurement competency assessment process, coordinating capability assessments across the global Procurement organisation.
- Ensure consistency of assessment methodology across all regions.
- Manage relationships with external capability assessment providers where applicable.
- Own the governance and prioritisation of the capability programme roadmap, including dependences, risks, resources, milestones and benefits.
- Analyse assessment outcomes to identify capability strengths and organisational gaps, Produce capability reports and recommendations for Procurement Leadership.
- Design and maintain structured development pathways for all Procurement career levels, ensuring alignment between capability expectations and career progression.
- Develop learning curricula based on capability assessment outcomes using the 70:20:10 learning methodology, recommending resources and materials that enable professionals plan and execute their learning journeys.
- Lead change management and adoption activity for new capability frameworks, learning programmes including stakeholder communications and reinforcement plans.
- Establish programme success measures and benefits-realisation reviews to demonstrate improved capability, application of learning and business impact.
- Partner with internal subject matter experts and external providers, to coordinate technical, behavioural and leadership development programmes.
- Monitor the effectiveness of learning interventions and promote a culture of continuous learning across Procurement. Development communities of practice, mentoring and peer-learning networks to strengthen knowledge sharing across regions and retain critical organisational knowledge.
- Partner with HR to integrate procurement capability requirements into recruitment, onboarding, talent reviews, succession planning and career development processes.
- Design a Knowledge Management methodology that promotes accessible ways of learning across the global Procurement team, aligning with strategic outcomes
- Identify, capture and organise critical knowledge as part of the procurement lifecycle, process and systems workflow.
- Identify knowledge gaps for Procurement and business users and provide recommendations for closure
- Identify, capture and organise implicit knowledge for continuous improvement for procurement knowledge retention.
- Lead change management and adoption activity for new knowledge management practices, including stakeholder communications and reinforcement plans.
- Maintain oversight of digital learning and knowledge management platforms, including content ownership, accessibility, user experience, usage analytics and continuous improvement.
- Significant experience in Procurement, Procurement Excellence, or Capability Development.
- Experience developing competency frameworks, capability models and knowledge management methodology.
- Experience implementing organisational performance improvement initiatives.
- Strong analytical and data interpretation skills.
- Excellent project and programme management skills.
- Experience working in global, matrix organisations.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Procurement category management experience.
- Experience with competency assessment methodologies.
- Knowledge of performance management frameworks.
- Experience working with external capability providers (e.g. Positive Purchasing).
- Experience using Workday or similar HR and Learning platforms.
- Continuous Improvement certification (Lean, Six Sigma or equivalent).
- Yearly bonus based on personal contribution and financial performance
- Flexible working options
- 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays and the option to buy and sell holidays
- Onsite Gym and Wellbeing Centre (Andover)
- Perkbox – employee discount scheme with discounts online, in high street stores, cinema, holidays, restaurants and many more
- Pension scheme with your contributions matched for up to 10% of your salary
- Cycle to work scheme
- SimplyHealth Cash plan
- Onsite Staff shop and online staff discounts
- Electric Car Scheme
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Access to ABF Networking, connect, collaborate, and grow across the ABF Group.
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