Supplier Consultant

Our Global vision is to build a better McDonald's and we are working hard to be the UK & Ireland's best-loved restaurant company.

Our values drive our culture and shape our beliefs, our priorities, and our actions. They influence the decisions we make, how we treat one another and how we show up as a brand to the world.

Serve
: We put our customers and our people first

Inclusion
: We open our doors to everyone

Integrity
: We do the right thing

Community
: We are good neighbours

Family
: We get better together

Hybrid Working

This role is based in our East Finchley office working 3 days in the office and 2 days remotely.

The Opportunity

In this exciting opportunity you will be responsible for managing local technology suppliers within the Running Great Restaurants Technology team.

This role will support supplier product roadmaps and backlog management across locally managed suppliers, and for ensuring that value creation and business outcomes align with McDonald's UK&I Technology strategy. They will also contribute to, and play a critical role in, enhancing the framework that ensures suppliers to McDonald's deliver robust, resilient and high-quality products and services, along with innovative, service-focused solutions that drive continuous improvement and maximise value.

The role holder will also hold responsibility for the ongoing strategy, governance and business relationship with McDonald's Technology suppliers.

What you'll be doing?

• Provide leadership within the RGRT team to foster a high-performing culture aligned with the company values
• Provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to members of your team, ensuring that all individuals have strong development plans, a path for career progression and a succession plan.
• Set standards with our partners/suppliers to ensure they are held accountable for delivering excellent service and change management; with focus on health, hygiene and continuous improvement of their products and services .
• For locally managed suppliers, establish product roadmaps and maintain a prioritised backlog
• Works closely with the Contracts and Commercial Team to ensure all contracts and commercials for existing and new service partners have robust controls in place to offer protection around service availability and continuity, cyber security and change management and that these controls are subject to regular review.
• Work closely with Service Operations to track trends of performance across all live production services.
• Transform supplier relationships, contracts and ongoing governance to adopt models with great outcomes for our restaurants and Franchisees.
• Conduct structured and regular governance meetings with our supplier partners to ensure value and performance using balance scorecards and tooling to objectively validate performance. Ensure remedial action plans are in place where required.
• Assess Risk and Compliance aligned with financial services regulations, building these processes into how the framework operates
• Facilitates collaboration on new Technology Adoption & Innovation
• Lead a team of subject matter experts to support identification and remediation of root cause of recurring issues
• Support the tracking and trending of supplier product performance across all live production services.
• Where partners provide products as a Service (aaS) ensure that engagement is timely, strong controls are in place and that value is measurable and continuously improving

What you'll bring?

• Significant experience in managing a diverse and broad range of suppliers; setting standards and driving continuous improvement in the availability and performance of their products. Experience with Technology suppliers is preferred, but not essential
• Knowledge of building product roadmaps
• Knowledge of backlog management and working in an agile environment
• Technical knowledge is preferable, the ability to interact and converse with senior technology stakeholders both internally and externally. Operational Technology experience is beneficial but not essential
• Experience in building a Vendor Management framework in the past, ideally having successfully modernised existing processes and having held suppliers to account for excellent service delivery
• Will possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills and commercial acumen and possess a proven ability to work effectively with all organisational levels
• The role holder will be able to build collaborative working relationships with suppliers and their stakeholders including McDonald's Franchisees and our partners
• Experienced in strategic planning, governance, communications, and financial management and have a proven track record of successful team leadership and development
• Individual should be able to manage multiple contracts/ projects and suppliers at the same time with the ability to time manage effectively and deliver to deadlines throughout the year.
• Experienced in negotiating large commercial contracts and tenders and be familiar with related legal constructs
• Individual must be able to create and build relationships with our supplier partners, demonstrating strong communication skills to drive the relationship in the correct direction

At McDonald's we are People from all Walks of Life...

People are at the heart of everything we do,
and they make the McDonald's experience.
We embrace diversity
and are
committed to creating an inclusive culture
that means people can be their best authentic self in our restaurants and offices, which helps us to better serve our customers. We have a strong heritage of diversity and representation within our communities, which we are proud of. The diversity of our people, customers, Franchisees and suppliers gives us strength.

We
do not tolerate inequality, injustice or discrimination of any kind.
These are hugely important issues and a brand with our reach and relevance means we have a very meaningful role to play.

We also recognise our responsibility as a large employer to continue being active in our communities
, helping to develop skills and drive aspirations
that will help people to be more aware of the world of work and more successful within it, whether with McDonald's or elsewhere."