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SalaryVendor Performance Manager
Are you a Procurement professional? Do you want to join our expanding Global Procurement team and play a key role in the transition to net zero?
Join us as we transform our energy industry!
Life at National Grid
National Grid is investing over £40bn across our UK and US businesses in the next few years and our procurement teams will play a significant role in supporting the investment, providing transformational solutions to achieve net zero. And that’s why we’re expanding our team globally with 90 additional roles.
We’re currently a team of over 300 talented professionals that cover a diverse range of categories from Indirect, IT & Digital, Network Operations (Maintenance & Repair) to Construction and Network equipment, with a clear mission: to enable a clean, fair and affordable energy future through commercial, responsible and innovative supply chain leadership.
We embrace flexibility and empower our team to shape their own success with our dynamic hybrid working environment and realise that to be successful we must invest in our people and capabilities.
What you'll do
Reporting into the Senior Supplier Relationship Manager, you will play a key role in the evaluation and analysis of the performance of National Grid’s global supply base and provide meaningful insights to senior leadership to drive continuous improvement and identify potential risks and opportunities that maximise value and savings.
- Global Performance Oversight – Own and communicate the consolidated global view of National Grid’s supply base performance to enhance awareness of spend, supplier performance and value opportunities.
- Vendor performance excellence – Define and develop a dynamic Vendor Performance dashboard, ensuring alignment with contract expectations and market standards (Quality, Pricing and Delivery timelines).
- Data analysis and strategic reporting – Lead the collection and analysis of Vendor Performance data and report on performance gaps, issues and unearth new opportunities to enhance value and drive improvements.
- Ownership and development of Executive Supplier Profiles – ensuring output is of appropriate quality. Development of a standardised process and content, to ensure timely delivery with the ability to refine to context and audience.
- Team Leadership – Develop and lead a motivated, innovative, and value-focussed team and foster a true performance management culture that continually drives value through employee engagement ensuring the successful delivery of strategic objectives.
- Supply Chain Transformation – Contribute to the supply chain transformation program and broader business-wide change activities and role model new ways of working
What we're looking for
We’re looking for people who can demonstrate creativity and commercial acumen whilst identifying opportunities to drive value and deliver our net zero ambition, and a passion to grow yourself and our business. Someone who can provide:
- Global Sourcing expertise – Background in broad, global sourcing-centric supply chain management and ability to navigate complex global enterprise environmentsHas a proven background in supplier performance measurement and market trending/insights
- Strategic insight delivery – Seasoned global Vendor Performance Manager capable of crafting executive packs and deliver key insights on suppliers, performance and categories Seasoned global Vendor Performance Manager capable of crafting executive supplier packs and presentations in an effective and meaningful way
- Analytical prowess – Analytical person with a strong data background and a solid understanding of foundational data structure with the ability to normalize data from multiple data sources.
- Global Sourcing expertise – Background in broad, global sourcing-centric supply chain management and ability to navigate complex global enterprise environments
- Information intelligence mastery – Proven experience in developing and managing information intelligence processes and able to identify current states and forecast market opportunities Has proven experience in developing and managing information intelligence processes
- Relationship building expertise – Ability to build fruitful and meaningful relationships across all business levels and able to influence senior management stakeholders Experienced relationship builder across all levels and able to liaise with and influence senior stakeholders
- Analytical prowess –
If you’re excited about this role, but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply – you might just be the right person for our growing business.
What you'll get
- A competitive salary of £60,000 - £70,000 (Reviewed annually) dependent on capability and experience
- Annual performance incentive
- Access to private medical insurance for you and your family
- A generous pension scheme - we double match your contribution up to 12%.
- 28 days’ annual leave plus the option to buy/sell up to 5 days per year.
- Life insurance – 10 x annual salary
- Flexible benefits (National Grid Share Incentive Plan, Salary Sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity plus many more)
- Ongoing career development and support - Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions and time off for study leave – so long as it’s relevant to your role
- Access to a range of further benefits covering wellbeing, family care, charity involvement
Locations and flexible working
As part of our hybrid working approach where colleagues work flexibly, these roles offer a mix of office working in Warwick and home working. Other office working locations; London, Castle Donnington and Bristol can also be accommodated.
About us
National Grid lies at the heart of the energy industry here in the UK and US.
Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live.
Our values underpin everything we do, and they inform our decisions, shape our company and are integral to how our customers and communities experience us. We pride ourselves on our values which enable us to be at the heart of a clean, fair and affordable energy future, and they are:
- Do the right thing – By doing so creates a purpose and belonging, putting our customers first and safe
- Find a better way – When we find a better way, we work together to drive innovation and find solutions for our customers
- Make it happen – We take bold steps and calculated risks to drive action, performance and results
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the heart of who we are and what we do. Our commitment to these values is unwavering and they are central to our mission. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries and we are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that you require.
So join us, and find what makes you…
Superpowered
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