Head of Procurement - Designate
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure compliance with the procurement, legal and
- finance process.
- Reviewing and improving existing policies and procedures of the procurement function
- Take ownership of procurement policy and guidelines
- Engage with corporate stakeholders to influence critical supplier relationships to maximise
- commercial leverage
- Maintain the procurement function ensuring delivery to SLA, ensuring continued "buy-in" to
- the procurement function by the business
- Collaborate closely with the Clients procurement team in the USA to identify global
- procurement opportunities
- Develop team expertise within the relevant categories
- Enable the business to improve decision making through the provision and interpretation of
- accurate, timely and relevant management information
- Lead the process for engagement with external service providers
- Deliver best in class negotiation techniques to maximise financial benefits return for the
- budget holders
- Work very closely with the legal team ensuring contracts drive supplier engagement,
- contain appropriate deliverables and measures of success
- Drive the procurement activity with the ESG programme and ensuring supplier buy- in to the
- Clients Supplier Code of Conduct
- Seek out cost reduction opportunities within the external expense budgets
- Work closely with finance team assisting with budget forecasting
- Hold regular meetings with major supplier account managers
Qualification/Experience
- Ten years procurement experience covering a wide range of categories
- Proven ability to negotiate multi-million pound contracts
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders at board level
- Proven expertise in the construct and the negotiation of commercial contracts
- In-depth experience of various IT software license types
- Have led the commercial elements in outsourcing of major functions
- Proven experience of running major RFP's and producing scoring matrices
- Excellent communication skills
- Insurance Sector only
- Preferably a Fellow or Member of The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS)
- Strong analytical skills
