Procurement Business Partner for IT

5 months ago

Swindon, United Kingdom RWE Full time

**Procurement Business Partner for IT (d/f/m)**:

- **Location(s)**:

- Swindon, Wiltshire, GB, SN5 6PB
- Essen, NW, DE, 45141

**RWE Offshore Wind GmbH**
**To start as soon as possible, **full time **, **permanent**

**The role**

As a Procurement Business Partner for IT/OT you will report directly into the Head of IT Procurement. This exciting new opportunity within the refreshed IT/OT Procurement team will give you the first hand opportunity to lead, mentor and develop a global team and contribute to innovative projects across all of RWE’s businesses including Renewables, Energy Trading and much more.

**Your future plans**

Acting as our “eyes and ears” on the ground you will be the IT Procurement go-to person for your assigned OpCos, build long lasting win-win relationships, fully understand your stakeholders requirements, and translate them to demand requirements and strategic initiatives to be executed by yourself, Category Management or Supplier Management.

Key responsibilities include:

- Establishing effective, trustful, deep relationships with all necessary OpCo stakeholders
- Be the first contact point for all procurement related topics which are not assigned to a specific Procurement team
- Be aware in detail and represent the OpCo in terms of business strategies, processes, activities and responsibilities towards Category Management and IT Supplier Management.
- Align IT’s and Procurements strategic initiatives
- Proactively brings supply market knowledge to business decisions
- Increasing value add
- Defining what value IT procurement can/should add for the assigned OpCos and initiates strategic initiatives that deliver against the defined value
- Represent Indirect Procurement towards OpCo, positioning Indirect Procurement as a process enabler, rather than a process blocker
- Set and deliver joint target agreements
- Demand Forecasting
- Maintenance of demand forecast and planning/ prioritization of procurement activities with all needed category teams plus supplier management.
- Be aware of the status of all activities and progress affecting your OpCos
- Supporting Cross Procurement Processes
- Together with IT Category Management and Supplier Management, provide and support alignment of segmentation and category strategies
- Ensuring automation and self-service capabilities are provided by Procurement to meet value targets

**Your profile**
- Relevant supply market and industry knowledge of relevant IT categories
- Procurement experience and an understanding of P2P processes
- Best in class Stakeholder Management and influencing skills, across all levels of hierarchy
- Highly creative, attentive to detail and able to be open to new approaches
- Persistant, with a drive to bring difficult topics to a close, thanks to your strong change and project management skills
- Willingness to travel to our operational/office sites and key suppliers
- Excellent proficiency in English; German language skills beneficial

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Offshore wind is a pivotal element of our carbon neutral ambition. Already No.2 in the global market, we plan to triple our 2.2GW output by 2030, led by projects such as Sofia (1,400 MW) and Kaskasi (342MW). With our financial stability, this is where you’ll also have the freedom to act with conviction and courage as we continuously improve, together.

Renewables is the future of our business, and Offshore wind a pivotal element of our carbon neutral ambition. With 800+ fixed bottom and floating turbines - plus others totalling 800MW we operate for partners - we’re already the No.2 generator globally. And we plan to triple our 2.2GW output by 2030, led by landmark projects such as Sofia (1,400 MW) and Kaskasi (342MW). Offshore wind is a constantly evolving technical, practical and social challenge. Our financial stability means you’ll have the freedom to act with conviction and courage as we pivot to harness new technologies - and continuously improve, together.

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