Procurement Specialist

3 days ago

Peterborough, United Kingdom Innova Solutions Full time

Procurement Solutions Professional

Twelve months

Peterborough


Job Description

The successful candidate will be joining a high performing E&T Procurement organisation, performing a critical role & delivering true bottom line financial benefit to the IPSD M business unit with a direct and traceable impact on our financial results.

There is a structured training program for both this role and other roles within E&T procurement, which all members of the team can benefit from providing future career progression opportunities both within and outside the department. The role will also bring exposure to all business functions (Engineering, Quality, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance) thus helping to build strong business acumen crucial for enabling high performance within role. The primary function of this role is to be a Project Leader, managing multiple projects, coordinating cross functional teams to successful execution. You will be responsible for the creation of Business Cases to be presented at Sourcing Council for business approval, either for Cost Reduction, or Assurance of Supply / Quality.

Upon approval, Project Leader will then be responsible for Launching and managing each project through to successful execution, ensuring commercial benefits, and seamless product launch.

Successful candidates should be able to demonstrate through examples, capabilities in project management, leadership, business acumen, and good interpersonal skills to enable success in this role. Hiring Requirements

What You Will Do

  1. Lead projects associated with lean processes, global market understanding, tools, and systems.
  2. Design and develop solutions, collaborate with senior stakeholders and business users to collect VOB/VOC, business requirements, and prepare implementation plans for successful deployment.
  3. Contribute to strategic initiatives such as the development of standardized best practices, offerings, services and development of associated tools & training.
  4. Serves as the lead technical representative for a respective discipline, and will work directly with a wide range of procurement / enterprise representatives, including presenting recommendations to senior leaders

What You Have

  1. Business Process Improvement: Knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying, evaluating, introducing and implementing more efficient approaches to performing business related activities. Level Working Knowledge:
  2. Gathers data for use in the analysis of business processes.
  3. Illustrates problems, opportunities and methods for improving existing business processes.
  4. Suggests ways to reduce variation and/or waste in processes.
  5. Helps evaluate what factors should be addressed in the change program.
  6. Participates in requirements analysis for process changes.


Data Analytics: Knowledge of techniques and processes for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data; ability to discover useful information, draw logical conclusions, and support decision-making. Level Working Knowledge:

  1. Collects required data through various data sources and documents them for evaluating trends and activities.
  2. Assists in preparing charts, graphs, tables, and other tools to represent the results obtained from data analysis.
  3. Researches business-related data, analyzes, interprets, and presents findings to management.
  4. Recognizes and assesses problems, opportunities, and methods for improving existing business performance.
  5. Utilizes designated data analysis software to analyze the data.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Negotiating: Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner. Level Basic Understanding:

  1. Describes qualities of effective and ineffective negotiations.
  2. Explains the basic concepts of negotiating.
  3. Accesses organizational policies and practices for negotiating.
  4. Utilizes techniques for establishing rapport and building trust.
  5. Matrix Management: Understanding of the importance of being able to leverage external resources when required and ability to build and use effective working relationships within own department and across department, functional, and geographic reporting lines. Level Basic Understanding:
  6. Names key players and decision makers relative to own function.
  7. Identifies straight and dotted line relationships for self.
  8. Provides reasons for multiple reporting relationships.
  9. Explains the concept of a functional boundary.

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