Job Description

We are passionate about working with our customers and the supply chain to buy and manage great commercial solutions that deliver value for passengers.

The successful candidate will join the Infrastructure team within the Route Services C&P team and be required to hit the ground running by leading procurement activities for our internal customers. The successful candidate must have relevant knowledge and experience of public sector procurement and be able to lead compliant and high-profile tender activities.

As a Procurement Manager – (Inside IR35) your main key responsibilities would be to:

• Develop and manage the sourcing process from business requirement to contract signature, on behalf of key customers and stakeholders, for multi-million-pound medium cost and business risk opportunities, where expert levels of indirect and direct influencing techniques and political savviness are required, utilizing, where relevant, commercial purpose-built models, to create and deliver significant commercial and contractual value, in support of the Director’s annual savings target
• Implement approved Integrated Category Strategies (ICS) through the development and delivery of the qualified Sourcing pipeline, in collaboration with the relevant Category Manager and relevant customers and stakeholders, to release the full defined savings and benefits value committed to within the ICS, with the ambition to deliver beyond the maximum value approved, in support of the C&P Director’s cost savings target
• Expert negotiator of sourcing enabled savings and benefit opportunities, in collaboration with all relevant customers and stakeholders, approved by Finance and applied to budgets, in support of the Director’s savings target, with the commercial capability, tenacity and ambition to deliver value beyond the ICS commitment
• Develop and implement of sourcing specific ideas and innovation-based business cases, working in collaboration with relevant customers and stakeholders, to address existing business problems that require external sourcing specific market expertise to solve
• Facilitate the transition of Sourcing led execution to Strategic Supplier Management, to manage a seamless customer experience from business requirement through to post contract signature and position the Supplier Management team to optimize their delivery of full contractual and relationship value
• Demand manages and challenge customer and stakeholder common sourcing requirements to maximize overall Group-wide commercial value, adopting politically savvy engagement, direct and indirect influencing and selling strategies across multiple Routes and Regions, in a complex, devolved organization
• Develop and manage sourcing aligned continuous improvement activities, demand pipeline assessments and annual customer satisfaction surveys, to deliver an enhanced customer experience, aligned to the Vision and best in class Procurement ambition
• Develop the external market sourcing practices, to include commercial models and total cost of ownership assessments, within the Sourcing team, to enable the implementation of good practice and move towards a recognized best in class capability, in support of the employer of choice ambition

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• MCIPS / CIPS
• Government Procurement Experience
• Experience of running procurement activity under procurement regulations
• Deep level of Sourcing experience, with a demonstrable track record of savings delivery
• Demonstrable level of negotiation and dispute resolution skill set
• Demonstrable experience of contract law and financial management
• Demonstrable experience of driving value from complex sourcing opportunities
• Experienced with agile cross-functional collaborative working methods
• Politically savvy, with the proven ability to use direct and indirect influencing strategies at an executive level
• Demonstrable level of problem-solving experience of complex sourcing specific challenges
• Line management experience