Procurement Manager

JR United Kingdom; Derry/Londonderry; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

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Buyer- Procurement Manager/ Group Senior Manager

Location: London Waterside

Working Environment: Office based (5 days in office)

Duration: 12 months

Please note the travel expectations too:

There will be travel once a quarter to the states & once a month (day trip) to Madrid, Barcelona & Dublin – to meet suppliers face to face – so must be prepared to travel.

Our Client:

One of the world's largest airline groups, with a fleet of over 500 aircraft flying to more than 250 destinations. A company committed to providing exceptional service and creating memorable experiences for their passengers.

Role Purpose:

• Lead a sub-category (Ground Operations) of procurement spend across a range of products and services.
• Work across the operating companies, ensuring the delivery of effective, robust and compliant procurement that delivers the business plan while maximising the Group’s buying power.
• Lead strategic activities, including category planning, sourcing, risk management and act as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders.

Accountabilities:

• Develop and implement a 3-5 year category plan for the given sub-category.
• Develop and implement local and global sourcing strategies for all external spend related activity.
• Manage stakeholder relationships in all operating companies, ensuring appropriately robust challenge while delivering the operating companies’ business plans.
• Manage supplier risk to protect the operating companies and the Group from financial, operational and reputational damage.
• Provide commercial innovation to internal stakeholders through interaction with the supply base.
• Work with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to resolve commercial and contractual disputes; particularly with suppliers of high complexity and/or high spend.
• Support operating companies tier 1 (high strategic/high risk/high spend) projects and work with strategic suppliers to grow and develop supplier markets.
• Ensure supplier performance management is robust, effective and compliant through liaison with the Procurement Operations Centre and operating company stakeholders.
• Identify, challenge, harmonise and simplify specifications and processes across the operating companies to ensure that Group buying power is maximised.
• Ensure all procurement activity is carried out in line with Group and operating company governance principles.
• Develop effective working relations with key interfaces across the Group and operating companies including line, finance, legal and other stakeholders.
• Take an active role in cross-departmental strategic and leadership activities.

Key Relationships/Interfaces:

• Business leaders in each of the operating companies.
• Finance.
• Legal.

Qualifications:

• Degree and/or ability to demonstrate strong knowledge of working in an international procurement environment.

Skills:

• Strong demonstrable commercial expertise including contract negotiation and dispute resolutions.
• Strong aptitude and knowledge across the full commodity lifecycle and awareness of market trends and suppliers.
• Excellent people management with the ability to inspire, lead, build and deliver through high-performance teams.
• Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to evaluate, analyse and solve problems.
• Ability to influence, align diverse views and gain consensus, providing clarity and direction on what is to be achieved and break down barriers that get in the way of effective team working.
• Ability to prioritise, maintain clear focus and provide direction in constant ambiguity and change, using knowledge, judgement, resilience and courage to resolve conflicting priorities and manage crises.
• Ability to operate effectively in an environment with tight deadlines, finite resource and uncertainty.

Experience:

• Senior level experience of partnering with Senior Leaders and Executives in a fast moving and agile business environment.
• Senior level experience in Procurement gathered in a complex global organisation.
• Experience of working in an environment of change involving people, process, policy and technology.
• Experience managing teams for success across multiple countries and cultures.
• Experience in Ground Operations procurement (or similar).

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