Head of Procurement

4 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom RICS Full time

**Head of Procurement**

**Location**: Hybrid - 3 days per week in the RICS London or Birmingham Office

**Job type**: Permanent

**Job Purpose**

We are looking for an experienced Procurement professional to lead our strategic procurement team here at RICS. You will work closely with key stakeholders and senior management within IT, Digital, Facilities, HR, Finance, Marketing amongst other divisions to develop and deliver a clear written Procurement strategy and sourcing plans.

You will continuously look to develop group procurement across all spend categories including contract management, devising sourcing plans, embedding policy, and ensuring procurement is aligned with overall business needs.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Increase the presence and impact of the procurement function across the business, through strong stakeholder engagement
- Coach key stakeholders to understand the procurement lifecycle and roles and responsibilities at each stage to ensure an integrated approach to procurement across the business
- Ensure data analysis, forecasting and contractual KPI performance measurement is routinely reported and acted upon
- Implement Supplier Relationship Management as an effective and efficient process, ensuring compliance with all policies, minimum standards, and governance/risk mechanisms
- Lead cost management exercises to identify waste, reduce risk and drive savings in external costs
- Act as the procurement lead on the Business Transformation Board outcomes to ensure full alignment and demand challenge new procurement activity that falls outside of plans
- Working with the PMO, ensure all approved projects are contained in a formally managed New Product Master Plan aligned to the procurement strategy and supplier selection process
- Draft and challenge SoW’s ensuring milestones are clear and value for money achieved

**Experience / Skills Required**
- Extensive and proven track record of leading and developing the procurement function within a global business and recent, hands-on procurement project experience
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage with all stakeholders/senior business managers from various divisions across a matrix organisation
- MCIPS qualified

**Who Are We?**

As a globally recognised professional body, everything we do is designed to effect positive change in the built and natural environments.

Through our respected global standards, leading professional progression and our trusted data and insight, we promote and enforce the highest professional standards in the development and management of land, real estate, construction and infrastructure. Our work with others provides a foundation for confident markets, pioneers better places to live and work and is a force for positive social impact.

With over 134,000 highly qualified trainees and professionals, and offices in every significant financial market, we are ideally placed to influence policy and embed our standards within local marketplaces in order to protect consumers and businesses. In doing so, we can innovate and progress the development of spaces and places so they are fit for future generations, in addition to the challenges faced in the present.

**Benefits**
- Hybrid working - Typically 60% in the office
- Private medical insurance
- Income protection
- Life assurance
- Aviva Group Personal Pension
- Eye test vouchers

**Please make sure you have the correct right to work in the country the role resides in.**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Life insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Birmingham, B3 2AA

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