Principal Process & Performance Manager

This contract with our Defence/Nuclear client is for a Principal Process & Performance Manager for 18 months based in Reading, hybrid – 2-3 days per week on site, occasional travel to London site.  

Assignment Background:  

• Undergoing big transformation.  

• New design model  

Core Day to Day Duties:  

• Establishing commercial excellence, budgets, regulations, system processes, and risk.  

• There is an existing transactional hub. A buying team.  

• Shared Services  

• Commonly bought commodities  

• Support for that team, looking at the future.  

• Run Procurement function of Service centre.  

• Streamlining Processes and systems  

• Helping incumbent workers  

• Working in transformation team  

• Look at Opps  

• Design  

• Systems  

• Role more in the Change process transformation.  

Key Accountabilities:  

- Lead teams to deliver the strategic direction of Supply Chain Process and Performance  

- Support the Strategic Supply Chain teams and the Procurement operations teams providing them with sufficient governance, reports, systems and processes.  

- Developing and maintaining positive and productive relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and promoting awareness of the Supply Chain Management function  

- Provision of standard and bespoke business reports, analysis etc and material for functional performance metrics and reviews  

- Resource management and planning to deliver required tasks, realising opportunities for savings and efficiencies  

- Identification and management of risks and opportunities within area of accountability  

- Ensuring the creation and maintenance of the Supply Chain Management processes, procedures, systems, tools and guidelines regarding compliance with the organisation's contractual, regulatory and legislative commitments  

- Creation and delivery of appropriate training material  

- Leading, coaching and developing a team at a local level to deliver team and personal objectives safely and securely to meet their operational plans  

- Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player  

Key Responsibilities:  

- Motivating, developing and managing a small team of specialists, setting clear objectives and undertaking performance reviews  

- Consistently demonstrating positive behaviours in line with the company's environmental, sustainability, safety, health, security, quality and ethics standards.  

- The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.  

- Specific responsibilities depend on the specialism may include Senior Compliance Manager  

- Take ownership of Contractual governance and assist with negotiations within the Supply Chain sub function by providing expertise in Contract law, terms and conditions, Non-Disclosure Agreements and Parent Company Guarantees  

- Maintaining a library of clauses and standard contract templates ensuring compliance with mandatory flow down terms and conditions and maintaining an awareness of legal matters  

- Lead direct reports and contribute to overall leadership of the Compliance Team, such that the team develops fit for purpose capability and experience to drive delivery of Supply Chain sub functions compliance agenda  

- Establish Supply Chain governance and reporting for the risk and compliance agenda, ensuring there is clear accountability for who is managing the risks; leadership understand and fulfil applicable risk reporting requirements, and ensure risk and compliance issues are escalated to an appropriate Risk Management and Compliance governance group  

- Take an active role in representing the Supply Chain sub functions external relationships with the MoD, other government bodies and external regulators  

- Lead and support internal and external audit activities, establishing scope, providing material for review by auditors, attending audit reviews, agreeing and closing out actions  

- Use Spend Analytics to provide actionable insights that support and shape the future demand of the business through its budgeting and decision-making processes  

- Define the processes, tools and methods for collating and managing spend data, ensuring it is cleansed and categorised accurately for spend analysis  

- Translate datasets and analysis into actionable and easy-to-understand insights and recommendations  

- Enable accurate and confident decision-making in the procurement process Market intelligence providing industry and supply market intelligence research and analysis relevant to the company’s supplier markets to Supply Chain team and the wider business.

1. Experience running a procurement transactional/service centre  

2. Functional expertise in P2P (Requirements and technical “know-how”)  

3. Global procurement knowledge  

Essential  

• Running a procurement transactional/service centre, and better still if set one up  

• Functional expertise in P2P (Requirements and technical “know-how”)  

• Global procurement knowledge  

• Public sector experience – understanding Governance challenges.  

• Possess strong business acumen, with advanced experience and knowledge of the concept to pay process and provision of operational procurement support.  

• Demonstrates consistent track record of delivery in operational procurement activity including helpdesk, requisition and order processing, tactical sourcing, and data management and administration within large and complex Procurement organizations.  

• Experience of working in a complex changing environment with demanding business objectives in a competitive market sector.  

• Experience of designing, establishing, and managing shared service operations for Procurement.  

• Experience of creating, building, leading and managing successful teams.  

• Significant experience of ERP systems such as Oracle.  

Desirable  

• SAP experience would be nice to have