Procurement Lead - Guildford, United Kingdom - AQA and AQA Affiliates

AQA and AQA Affiliates

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Guildford, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Procurement Lead

Permanent

Guildford:
£46,000 - £52,000 per year

Hybrid working - Must live within a cmmutable distance
**Are you already working in Procurement but are looking for something more?

Can you see ways to
capitalise on opportunities and deliver quick but sound business benefits?

This is your chance to move into a
newly created role designed to support and
work closely with 3 specialist Category Managers.

You will also be supporting,
guiding and leading a team of 2 all under the guidance of the Head of the Procurement department.

CIPS4? If you have it great If not don't worry we still want to hear from you if you are qualified by experience and may look to fund the training in time as well.

Confidence in providing
pragmatic and expert advice and guidance to senior managersacross the business on procurement related processes and strategies is key.

What's in it for you?

You'll work on a hybrid working model and one which works for you and the team alike, with the ability to pay up to 7% into your pension and employer contributions up to 11.5% , 25 days annual leave with Christmas on top rising with service, alongside a host of other wellbeing benefits including the Headspace App, Life assurance, PMI and Access to a Health Cash plan as well as a Cycle to Work schemes .

In your role as
Procurement Leadyou will work with the wider team where last year alone they worked on close to 300 complex contracts across the organisation.

Whilst a cross-section of sectors and suppliers including, Facilities, HR, Marketing, Events and Operations will form part of your overall responsibility, you will also provide key support to the IT procurement function as AQA dive into one of its main strategic aims of digitally diversifying and focusing on the future of assessment in innovative and technically minded ways.

What will you be doing?

Supporting and taking full management responsibility for your team, you will enable a real focus on team development, growth and future succession planning as well as being pivotal in allowing everyone to focus on continuous improvements.
Ensuring crucial coordination of workloads associated with contract reviews, contract builds, benchmarking/RFx exercises and other allocated projects.
A key conduit with the Category Managers, the wider business and external suppliers across the coordination and management of all sourcingrelated activities.
Full responsibility for all RFx projects at all level of sourcing suppliers. You will have oversight and management after briefings from the Category Managers to go to market at pace and review and analyse all viable options.
Provide key and proactive assistance to the Category Managers in the supplier relationship management process and take responsibility for the coordination of meetings and followups. The supplier relationship management project is crucial to AQA as it ensures that suppliers match their contractual obligations, that risks to AQA are mitigated and the relationship with suppliers is enhanced to ensure we are seen as a partner of choice to companies.

AQA fully utilise contract management software (Jaggear/Bravo) to enable detailed reviews of contracts, to build contracts, review and formally evaluate RFIs and RFPs, to monitor individual supplier performance (accuracy, productivity, progress and compliance) and to be able to obtain relevant/key reports.

What next?
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