Head - Indirect Procurement

Please note - We're only looking for candidates who come with deep indirect procurement experience (especially with professional services as a category) and who have built/managed processes which are scalable at a global level.

Main purpose of role:

- Ensure the company has an effective indirect procurement policies and procedures

- Drive Indirect Procurement strategies to increase value and cost reduction

- Provide indirect category procurement governance

Responsibility:

- Drive significant savings (current total spend >- 100M)

- Liaising with company colleagues (across Operations and support functions) to determine product and service requirements in the business

- Develop and maintain strong and trusted relationships with business stakeholders (including Exec members)

- Development of category strategies including market and industry analysis

- Completion of RFI / RFQ and tender management processes

- Negotiation of supplier agreements

- Establish and maintain excellent supplier relationships and facilitate periodic business reviews

- Identifying areas for cost savings and business benefits

- Identifying and researching products and services to improve performance and assist in achieving sustainability goals/commitments

- Develop, monitor and enhance service level agreements and key performance indicators with key supplier contracts. This includes ensuring contractual compliance and satisfactory performance against agreed KPIs

- Supporting with supplier approvals and on boarding

- Manage complex projects from conception through implementation, including change management Governance

- Implement appropriate internal governance and analyses and reporting on indirect category spend with regular review and reporting to the Executive team

Knowledge and experience:

- A professional and respectful procurement expert with a modern inclusive approach.

- 10 years procurement / category management

Held senior procurement roles with responsibility for relevant categories especially:

- Professional Services / consultancy

- Legal services

- S&M categories (collateral, design & production)

- HR

- IT

- Ability to work in an independent and individual role

- Ability to quickly establish credibility with internal stakeholders

- Solid business acumen accompanied by interpersonal savvy

- Significant expertise in contract negotiation and supplier relationship management

- Have a bias for action and fast decision making.

- Ability to build and maintain strong business relationships internally & externally

- Superior influencing, communication, negotiation, presentation, and analytical skills

- Demonstrated ability of managing cost performance

- Solid track record for effectively managing projects - planning, assessing and implementing change

- Experience in Procurement: Requests for Information/Proposal (RFI/RFP), Evaluation, Selection, etc.