The role of a Procurement Business Partner is to manage effective and efficient, end to end procurement projects and making good business decisions, and provide authoritative advice on strategic and operational commercial matters in support the project.
The role holder also supports the development of the supply chain, and to ensure that the project has suitable tracking and intelligence systems in place to effectively manage its strategic suppliers.
Job Responsibilities
- Manage several categories of indirect expenditure as allocated by the Head of Commercial and Procurement.
- Manage a diverse range of end-to-end procurement projects from across all indirect categories in order to maximise value for money.
- Influence a wide range of internal and external stakeholders up to Director level, including acting as a business partner to a defined directorate, working as a critical friend to help them solve problems and realise opportunities while ensuring compliance with the procurement policy.
- Utilise the support of the Procurement Analyst to analyse spend and contract data to inform the strategy for procuring services or goods or solving a business need in another way (such as undertaking using internal resource, hiring staff or making a grant).
- Develop and analyse procurement management information to improve business intelligence and inform commercial decisions and business plans made at all levels within the organisation. This will involve managing procurement systems to provide key performance information on a regular basis and occasionally preparing reports or presentations on management information.
- Facilitate meetings with internal and external stakeholders, such as clarification of scope or market engagement events with suppliers or meeting with internal stakeholders to understand their needs or update them on progress.
- Authorise financial information including Purchase Orders and new suppliers.
Experience Required
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (MCIPS), part-qualified or similar professional certification
- Degree or equivalent academic qualifications
- Excellent understanding of how to run end to end procurement projects
- Prioritising – with support - a challenging workload of competing priorities
- Excellent written and verbal English
- Advanced use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint including detailed formatting of formal contract documents in Word
- Ability to quickly learn and work with new processes and IT systems
- Good stakeholder management skills with the ability to present and discuss information professionally and tease information out of people
- Regulations 2015 and procurement good practice) with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Previous experience of managing indirect procurement projects
- Experience working in a procurement team
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