Procurement Business Partner

Job title: Procurement Business Partner

Location: Warwick/Hybrid

Duration: 6 months initially

The Role:

The Procurement Business Partner is responsible for leading the development of strong relationships with business stakeholders to represent Procurement, ensuring that the function is delivering outcomes which are aligned with business priorities. The Business Partner will understand business plans and strategy and requirements in the short, medium and long term, presenting forward-looking solutions which meet the strategy. The Business Partner acts as a trusted advisor for the business on all matters related to Procurement.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and act as a trusted advisor on Procurement matters.


• Identify collaborative procurement opportunities and potential benefits for the organisation.


• Lead the integration of collaborative procurement strategies across the business where appropriate and in line with category management strategies.


• Influence stakeholders to ensure the procurement policy is considered whenever procurement of goods and/or services is involved.


• Develop and maintain the asset, capex and opex procurement plan.


• Ensure that Procurement is appropriately understood across the organisation and embed Procurement processes and procedures across the organisation.


• Support the category teams to develop and maintain an accurate picture of spend landscape, to use spend information and future requirements to develop category strategies in consultation with the business and to implement category strategies in collaboration with the business.


• Lead the Procurement annual value planning process, ensure that projects and initiatives identified are in line with business priorities and plans, with a focus on delivering benefit (financial and non-financial) to the business.


• Provide specialist advice and guidance to the business on leading strategic procurement activities.

Requirements:

• Experience of working in a multi-stakeholder and multi-site environment


• Proven experience of developing and maintaining effective relationships internally with other business areas and externally with suppliers


• Experience of working closely with asset management and / or operations teams


• Excellent negotiation skills with the ability to influence at senior levels (internal and external)


• Evidence of successful delivery of procurement strategy and related benefits, including financial savings, across multiple spend categories.


• Evidence of successful implementation of leading procurement practices including strategic sourcing, contract management and supplier relationship management


• Proven experience of leading strategic procurement in a complex environment, with a high level of uncertainty around predicted or future demand, and with a fragmented user base in multiple locations


• Experience of leading teams and dealing with people management issues


• Some experience of supporting a commercial bidding process by providing early input on third party costs


• Managing projects, innovation and idea management, problem solving, planning & delivering, change and implementation management.


• Engineering Qualification Preferred

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