Ref: 22683
Your New Daily rate: up to £520PAYE /£680 umbrella (inside IR35) *equivalent of up to £135K pa.
Duration: 9 month - Temporary assignment
Location: West London - Hybrid, 1 day a week
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week
Job posting ID: JP104117
Who you'll be working for:
Our client, a major FTSE100 business, are looking for a Global Procurement Lead - Staffing Services.
What You'll be Doing:
You will be responsible for implementing global category strategies to optimize business efficiency across all talent acquisition & recruitment services. To be able to fulfil your duties, you will work closely with local procurement & HR partners to understand the company's global needs and identify opportunities to increase quality & improve value for money.
Whilst performing your category management activities you will focus on identifying innovative & disruptive procurement solutions that provide cash able savings, process efficiencies and support company's strategic workforce planning. You will also aim to drive sustainable value for the company from key supplier relationships, aligned with Global Diversity and Inclusion aspirations.
Additionally, the role will be accountable for delivering a range of initiatives/processes in partnership with the Complementary workforce & HR operation teams and broader partners. Strategically, you will be required to drive a culture of continuous improvement to both processes and services and ensure ongoing organizational alignment to support the company's ambition.
Global Procurement Lead - Key Responsibilities:
- Be the global procurement Business Partner and align with Senior Global Stakeholders to determine value generation across HR & Staffing Services which includes complementary workforce & permanent recruitment categories and Translations.
- Manage the end-to-end process to challenge the sourcing approach and scope of the business requirements. Challenge and drive continuous improvements to support company's drive of being ambitious for patients.
- Develop next generation category strategies, bringing leading market practice to develop disruptive added value to company and collaborate where there are synergies with other global procurement categories such as Professional Services & Technology.
- Execute global sourcing strategies across multiple spend categories in scope of responsibility, operating with a truly global mindset and ensuring all applicable markets and regional requirements are accommodated.
- Have a clear understanding of how global strategies impact local markets and build an education & communication process for our Procurement leads and business units.
- Be a global expert in the spend categories within scope of responsibility.
- Facilitate implementation of procurement change initiatives within categories to improve business performance.
- Accountable for the direct management and savings target achievement for managed sub-categories
- Execute and manage effective contracts with suppliers that will allow the company to maximize global opportunities. Ensure global views on supplier negotiations are taken.
- Manage global supply base for the categories within scope through a robust performance management process. Ensure supplier performance is understood and measured.
Global Procurement Lead - The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:
- Qualified to Degree level, ideally within Procurement and Supply Chain, and/or further academic qualifications, for example MBA, CIPS, MCIPS, CCWP
- Category experience within Staffing Services/Talent Acquisition/Recruitment Services and HR Services
- Previous experience with EY, PwC, Accenture, Deloitte, KPMG
- Line management experience with the ability to support team member growth
- Ability to articulate the business case for Supplier Diversity and translate it into action in discrete situations
- Understanding of Procure-to-Pay and Spend Analysis systems; ability to dive into data and co-create, understand, and trouble-shoot reporting requirements
- Track record of working with senior stakeholders and the ability to influence, this includes the ability to build strong relationships and to influence aligned to company's values
- Experience managing suppliers (including performance management), developing new potential suppliers and partnering with supply base for mutual benefit
- Excellent leadership capability to manage people and processes
- Innovative thinking to drive changes and process improvements
- Able to demonstrate significant cost savings
- Matrix management and global management skills
- Ability to work in a complex and multi-cultural environment
- Excellent business acumen, analytical, and financial skills
- Please note this Umbrella rate is the amount payable to the Umbrella company - this does not represent what you will actually receive from the Umbrella company.
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