Reference:
SKPSR/PrPr/74
Sector:
Development and Integration
Salary:
£96 Per Hour
Benefits:
Outside IR35
Town/City:
Reading
Contract Type:
Contract
Closing Date:
12/12/2024
Role: Principal Process & Performance Manager
Contracting Authority: Government
Contract Length: 18 Months
Location: Hybrid – Reading with occasional travel to London
IR35: Outside
Pay Rate: Up to £96.26 per hour
Clearance: DV/SC Clearance
An exciting opportunity has become available with our prestigious client who is a prominent government department. The client is seeking an experienced Principal Process & Performance Manager to join their welcoming team.
The Principal Process & Performance Manager Role:
• 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
• Senior Analytics and Market Intelligence Manager
• 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
• Senior Reporting & SCM Systems Manager
What Principal Process & Performance Manager Need:
• 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.
• SAP experience would be nice to have
• Assignment Background
• Undergoing big transformation.
• New design model
Minorities, women, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Interviews will take place this week, so please apply immediately to be considered for this exciting contract opportunity.
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