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Procurement Manager

Job Title: Procurement Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Reading
Industry:
Salary: bonus, pension, car allowance
Start Date: ASAP
REF: SB/PERM/PM_1670327826
Contact Name: Sneha Betharia
Contact Email: sneha.betharia@projectpeople.com
Job Published: over 1 year ago

Job Description

Role: Procurement Manager / Partner Insights Manager

Type: Permanent

Location: Reading (Hybrid)

Great role working for a high profile well known brand with benefits that include a bonus scheme, car allowance and flexi allowance along with much more. You will be able to really add value in this role being part of a team specifically set up to digitalise the end to end journey of the supplier relationships within procurement.

This company are committed to better, that's why they are Digitally Transforming Procurement, implementing market leading automation and analytics technologies to drive insights which enable faster sourcing, stronger relationships with their partners, enhanced customer experiences and, more effective management of risk and ethical issues within their supply chain.

This is a key role in leveraging these technologies, the roadmap, and their exponential growth in available data, to meet key objectives. As such you will have a strong influence on the value delivered by the Procurement and Partner Management teams and on their supplier strategies.

Responsibilities:

  • You will be responsible for all reporting and management information required to support the effective running of the procurement and partner management teams.
  • You will be proactively designing and producing data and insight reporting related to the sourcing and management of their supply relationships, amending where required to meet the changing requirements of the business, and consolidating the available internal and external market data and insight resources to provide a multi-faceted view of trends and associated recommendations for continuous improvement, manipulating data in applicable analytics tools, creating reports, writing insightful commentary and the distribution of the resulting information.
  • You'll partner with the Procurement team, Partner Management teams, Legal and Risk & Compliance teams, Finance, technical system design teams (where relevant), the Insights & Analytics team within Technology, their internal process standards team, group Procurement functions and, their tools, systems and data subscription suppliers.
  • Using a variety of system based data and proactive research, you'll manage the end-to end production of insight and reporting for Procurement and key internal stakeholders.
  • Interpret and present data/findings to key stakeholders, identifying trends and/or potential for continual improvements and, creating actionable recommendations and data driven insight.

Experience needed:

  • An excellent grasp of summary statistics, percentages, distributions, quartiles, cumulative frequency charts, trend analysis and other data manipulation techniques etc.
  • Experience and strong understanding of end to end sourcing, contract and supplier management processes, ideally from working within a Procurement function.
  • Expertise in interpreting data from multiple sources, identifying trends and/or potential for improvements or action and, creating actionable recommendations and data driven insight.
  • The desire to be part of a rapidly maturing team who continually strive to be better at what they do

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