Procurement Development Leader

Rolls-Royce; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace and defense company is looking for a Procurement Development Leader in Derby/Hybrid to manage procurement transformation projects. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree and experience with SAP ERP, alongside strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills. This role supports a hybrid working environment, with opportunities for professional growth and a competitive salary.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Employee discounts

Exceptional employee support

Qualifications

• Experience with SAP ERP.
• Data management skills.
• Understanding procurement processes, systems, and data would be advantageous.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure while ensuring attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Lead and embed global transformation projects.
• Develop and implement improvement strategies.
• Ensure compliance to all functional processes.
• Coordinate operational reporting and data management.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, Business, or a related field

Tools

SAP ERP

Job description

Overview

Procurement Development Leader – Full Time – Derby/Hybrid. As the Procurement Development Leader, you will lead the global development and deployment of functional improvement initiatives to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the purchasing function.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing

As a Procurement Development Leader, you will be responsible for leading and embedding both global and local major transformation projects, process and application development, data integrity improvements to ensure on time and accurate government reporting, and lead process and compliance reporting automation.

Responsibilities:

• Project management: Utilize project management methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, budget and to customer requirements. Develop comprehensive workable issue solutions in complex situations
• Stakeholder Management: Interface with all levels of Procurement and other functions to develop and implement improvement strategies.
• Processes and Procedures: Lead and/or participate in the development and deployment of global purchasing processes, ensuring that they are fully integrated into the company\'s operating system(s). You will be responsible for ensuring supplier management team(s) are fully trained, capable and compliant to all functional processes. Where designated, you will support relevant process councils and audit activities
• Purchasing Systems: When applicable, provide detailed requirements for improvements to purchasing systems. Lead global and local teams to implement new systems and improvements to existing systems. Embed and audit the data integrity of Purchasing systems within your area.
• Reporting: Lead and co-ordinate operational reporting, data management, and integrity as per the requirements of the business, customer, governments and USA Small Business reporting requirement

Who we’re looking for

Being a part of Rolls-Royce, you’ll know we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, Business, or a related field
• Data management skills
• Experience with SAP ERP
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure while ensuring attention to detail.
• Understanding procurement processes, systems and data would be advantageous

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Closing Date: 17/09/2025