Digital Procurement Solution Lead

As Digital Product Solution Lead - Orchestration, you will lead the development and continuous improvement of our technology driven procurement intake and orchestration processes, ensuring seamless integration with back-end  applications  and  creating  orchestration  as  a  solution  with  the  potential  to  roll  it  out  to  our  external  clients, expanding our influence and impact. This senior role requires deep expertise in procurement processes, various buying  channels,  and  the  ability  to  translate  business  requirements  into  a  flexible  and  efficient  procurement orchestration framework. You will own the product backlog, prioritize initiatives, and ensure seamless procurement operations  from  intake  to  the  delivery  making  a  tangible  impact  on  our  business  success.  You  will  pioneer orchestration  within  our  company,  a  concept  still  relatively  new  to  the  procurement  industry,  creating  a  unique opportunity to lay the path and position Liberty Blume as a ProcureTech innovator.
 
The ideal candidate will be hard-working, motivated and resilient, with demonstrable experience working within a fast paced, demanding service design/delivery environment. Relevant experience gained from a leading procurement technology company or a leading in-house procurement CoE team would also be beneficial. There will be an opportunity of taking on more leadership responsibilities over other product owners in the future.

What will you be doing?

Orchestration Stack: Be the visionary leader driving the strategy and roadmap for Procurement Orchestration, ensuring  alignment  with  business  needs  and  overall  Procure Tech strategy,  leading  the  implementation  and integration that set industry standard.
 

Product Backlog: Captures procurement, business and other stakeholders' needs and translates them into the functional requirements added to the product backlog, and setting priorities based on business value, impact and feasibility. Participate in customer forums and drives setting priorities of the orchestration partner product roadmap.
 
Orchestration  Framework:  Develop  and  maintain  a  comprehensive  orchestration  framework  with  detailed process flows and decision points. Create/ drive updates of the relevant policies and procedures where required.
 
Integrations: Ensure seamless integration of various procurement channels (i.e. guided buying, strategic sourcing, contracting,  PR creation  etc.)  including  synchronization  and  alignment  of  the  key master data  for the  best user experience.
 
Change Management: Drives change management efforts, align on communication strategies, ensuring business adoption of new procurement workflows, monitor adoption, ensures training materials are available and up to date, conducts trainings and briefing sessions on the content of the workflows, organizes feedback sessions.
 
Incidents/Issue Resolution: Alerted on critical incidents, participate in defining hot fixes/workarounds  for major faults. 
 
Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Stay on top of industry trends and best practices to drive innovation and continuous improvement in procurement orchestration. Find opportunities for process optimisation, automation and agentic AI, leveraging prescriptive analytics capabilities of Procurement Data Lake (where possible). 
 
Collaboration and Partner Engagement: Collaborate closely with industry technology partners, cross-functional teams, including LBPS operations, strategy and product teams, Blume Technology, and Finance, to ensure alignment and orchestration platform efficiency.
 

We tend to look for people with:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business administration, supply chain management, or having worked previously in a related field
• Qualifications and/or experience in relation to project management/process improvement methodologies e.g. Agile, Lean Six Sigma preferred.
• Strong understanding of procurement processes, sourcing strategies, and the intricacies of supply chain dynamics.
• Proven experience in a Product Owner or similar role, driving procurement technology or process
  transformation initiatives. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate complex requirements into
  actionable solutions, excellent communication and social skills
• Experience working with procurement orchestration solutions, intake-to-pay workflows, and process automation and deep knowledge of procurement technologies, ERP systems.
• Strong knowledge of agile product development, including writing user stories, managing product
  backlogs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Knowledge of AI-driven procurement orchestration tools and emerging technologies in procurement
• An understanding of technical concepts such as APIs, basic coding principles and software integration is advantageous 

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary and bonus
• 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase 5 more
• Access to wellbeing and mental health benefits such as the Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover and dental insurance
• Matched pension contribution up to 10%
• Access to our online learning platform to continue to develop and grow your career with us
• The chance to join an innovative, fast-paced and passionate team

Who we are:

Liberty Blume, a Liberty Global company, is a rapidly growing business services provider, specialising in tech-enabled back-office solutions. Our mission is to deliver efficiency, scale and value to our customers through Business, Procurement and Financial Solutions. If you're curious, customer centric and enjoy being one step ahead, join us on our scale up journey and unlock your freedom to grow

Liberty Global is an equal opportunity employer, committed to an inclusive environment and accommodating all candidates. We're eager to hear from you, no matter your background.