Senior Director Procurement Intelligence, Data & Analytics

RS UK & Ireland; Corby; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Life assurance

Health insurance

Employee assistance

Cycle to work

Lunch vouchers

Gym discounts

Travel loans

Job summary

RS UK & Ireland is seeking a Senior Director to lead procurement intelligence, analytics and decision-support across the global RS Integrated Supply organisation. Hybrid role with offices in Warrington or Corby.

You will own visibility, reporting and analytical frameworks, enabling procurement to drive sourcing decisions, maximise value and manage risk across regions.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in procurement, supply chain, analytics or commercial intelligence roles.
• Proven track record transforming data into actionable sourcing decisions across global, complex supply chains.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the global Procurement Data & Analytics Strategy.
• Spend Visibility & Procurement Intelligence, establishing a single trusted source of procurement data and insight.
• Best Source to Buy Analytics, developing and maintaining frameworks to identify the optimal supply source.
• Repeat Item Optimization - develop repeat-buy intelligence models for clients.
• Develop procurement risk analytics and supplier intelligence capabilities for the wider organisation.
• Establish risk-adjusted sourcing recommendations and decision frameworks.
• Provide early-warning indicators and predictive risk insights to procurement leadership.
• Provide Regional Supply Chain & Client Insights through deep understanding of structures and industry dynamics.
• Identify opportunities to improve sourcing effectiveness through regional supplier and category strategies.
• Own Procurement performance reporting & KPI visibility with executive level reporting.
• Stakeholder management and influencing of procurement strategy through data-driven recommendations.
• Present insights and sourcing opportunities to executive stakeholders.
• Engage directly with clients to support procurement optimisation initiatives.
• Collaborate with suppliers to improve transparency, performance and supply.
• Build and lead a high-performing Procurement Data & Analytics capability.
• Lead, coach and develop the Data & Analytics Manager.
• Embed analytical capability, data literacy and insight-driven decision-making across the procurement organisation.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and accountability.

Skills

Procurement analytics

Spend analytics

Category intelligence

Data visualisation

Stakeholder management

Influencing capability

Job description

Full-time opportunity, offered on a hybrid basis with flexible requirements to attend offices in Warrington or Corby.

The Opportunity

Here at RS, we have a fantastic global D-suite opportunity to join our team and lead our procurement intelligence operations. This Senior Director level position is a newly created highly strategic and critical role, responsible for defining and leading the global procurement intelligence, analytics and decision-support capability across the entire RS Integrated Supply organisation.

This individual will be a vital part of RS Integrated Supply, owning the visibility, reporting and analytical frameworks that enable our procurement teams to make informed sourcing decisions, optimize client outcomes, maximizing commercial value.

What You Will Be Doing

The role is accountable for identifying the best source to buy, providing recommendations across exact match, alternative source and functional equivalent purchasing strategies, while balancing client saving commitments, RS Integrated Supply profitability and supply chain risk considerations.

Operating globally, the role ensures sourcing recommendations and procurement strategies reflect both client-specific requirements and regional supply market dynamics, supporting sustainable growth and value creation across all regions.

There are some further key responsibilities of this role to highlight:

• Define and execute the global Procurement Data & Analytics Strategy
• Spend Visibility & Procurement Intelligence, establishing a single trusted source of procurement data and insight
• Best Source to Buy Analytics, developing and maintaining frameworks that identify the optimal source of supply for client requirements.
• Repeat Item Optimization - develop repeat-buy intelligence models that optimize procurement decisions across client portfolios.
• Develop procurement risk analytics and supplier intelligence capabilities, providing insights to the wider organisation.
• Establish risk-adjusted sourcing recommendations and decision frameworks.
• Provide early-warning indicators and predictive risk insights to procurement leadership.
• Provide Regional Supply Chain & Client Insights through development of deep understanding of structures and industry dynamics
• Support global clients through locally relevant procurement intelligence.
• Identify opportunities to improve sourcing effectiveness through regional supplier and category strategies.
• Ownership of Procurement performance reporting & business insights and KPI visibility, with executive level reporting
• Stakeholder management and influence of procurement strategy through data-driven recommendations
• Present insights and sourcing opportunities to executive stakeholders.
• Engage directly with clients to support procurement optimisation initiatives.
• Collaborate with suppliers to improve transparency, performance and supply.
• Build and lead a high-performing Procurement Data & Analytics capability
• Lead, coach and develop the Data & Analytics Manager.
• Embed analytical capability, data literacy and insight-driven decision-making across the procurement organisation.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and accountability.

What You Will Bring

With a great background of senior level experience in procurement, supply chain, analytics, category management or commercial intelligence roles, you will bring significant insight into spend management and business intelligence.

With a proven track record of transforming data into actionable sourcing and commercial decisions, would will bring your experience working within global and complex supply chain environments with demonstratable success influencing senior stakeholders through insight-led recommendations.

Skills & Capabilities

Deep understanding of:

• Procurement analytics
• Spend analytics
• Category intelligence
• Data visualisation and reporting

Strong understanding of:

• Strategic sourcing
• Category management
• Supply chain risk management
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to translate complex datasets into commercial and operational actions.

Leadership Attributes

• Strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen.
• Data-driven leader with a passion for driving value through insight.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing capability.
• Ability to operate across highly matrixed global organisations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Collaborative leader capable of influencing internal and external stakeholders.

We Are RS

We’ve been solving industry problems for over 80 years. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions to over 1.2 million customers globally, shipping a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries. With over 800,000 stocked and 3 million unstocked products, we’re a trusted partner to the world’s leading industries.

We’re looking for curious, driven, and empathetic professionals to join our journey. People who think differently, act with purpose, and want to make a real impact.

Rewards

Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.

Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
• Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
• Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
• Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values

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