Sourcing & Contract Management Hub Manager

4 weeks ago


England, United Kingdom Aldwych Consulting Full time

Sourcing & Contract Management Hub Manager

Warwick Based

Car given

Low travel involved

The primary purpose of this role is to lead the Sourcing and Contract Management hub team to deliver high quality outcomes on lower value and lower risk sourcing activity, and contract management activity, all on behalf of the Category and Projects teams. They ensure timely completion of work in line with the agreed SLA, and that deliverables meet expectations.

Responsibilities:

  • Engage with the Category and Project teams and the Control Tower to understand demand, priorities and timeframes for all workload
  • Works with key stakeholders to ensure the team is providing an effective service; establishes working protocols with stakeholders to accelerate delivery
  • Takes ownership of lower value, lower complexity requests, including single source and direct awards, to remove higher volume activity from Category Management Teams
  • Ensure work delivered by team is aligned with category strategies
  • Leads continuous improvement in guided sourcing routes, tools and templates
  • Provide appropriate coaching, support and direction to the team to enable them to deliver projects to the expected quality standards
  • Provide advice, guidance and support to business stakeholders on Utilities procurement and regulatory guidelines
  • Embeds appropriately tailored contract management processes, to ensure such activity is delivered efficiently, using automation where possible
  • Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities that enable all activities to be delivered efficiently and consistently
  • Maintain deep understanding of organisation-wide procedures for governance, risk and compliance management that manage, mitigate and minimise risks
  • Utilise standard contract templates, framework call-off contracts etc, engaging with the Legal team where necessary to amend and improve
  • Acts as first line control and quality assurance for all processes led by the team
  • Carries out assurance role for contracts prior to approval to support business decision-making
  • Drive Procurement’s value-adding capabilities through implementing best practice, cost savings, cost avoidance and spend controls
  • Monitor and challenge non-compliant buying activities within the business, driving compliance to policy and existing procurement contracts for low value/complexity requirements.

Requirements:

  • High level of experience in optimising sourcing and contract management processes
  • Able to prioritise and schedule work effectively
  • Motivation to support the establishment of a new way of working which demonstrates the value of commercial by setting quality standards, reinforcing good practice, and embedding the implementation of the hub
  • Knowledge of relevant standards, policies and procedures
  • Knowledge of the application of procurement tools, including e-sourcing systems.

Skills and Knowledge

  • Interpersonal skills, leadership skills – advanced
  • Commercial acumen, stakeholder management – advanced
  • Sourcing and contract management process knowledge – advanced.
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