Senior Coordinator - Gaydon, United Kingdom - Jaguar Land Rover

Jaguar Land Rover

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Gaydon, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

**Job Description

REQ ID:
120257

JOB TITLE:
Senior Coordinator

SALARY:

POSTING END DATE: 01/12/23

LOCATION:
Gaydon

Beyond Property, Purchasing, HR and IT, more than being part of our Finance or Marketing teams, beyond even Sales and Service, every role in every business area offers unique opportunities to make an impact on the future of mobility and the automotive industry.

WHAT TO EXPECT:
Developing talented people is vital to our strategy.

The programme team delivers a real impact by providing pro-active engagement, facilitation and risk management to complex and strategic procurement activities.

We are growing diverse teams, building extraordinary talent and creating a flexible, fun, meaningful environment for you, to thrive in.

The role offers an exciting challenging experience with business-wide exposure and development. You will need to have experience of influencing and driving others to meet commitments and deadlines.

There will be key substantial interfaces with Procurement, Finance and Engineering stakeholders, as well as a range of other functions at all levels of the organisation, so strong stakeholder management is essential.

With strong business acumen, you will be able to assess risks/opportunities, plan risk mitigation and strive to deliver opportunities.

A key requirement is supporting Procurement and Programme buyers to ensure commodities are given exposure at senior level, enabling alignment, decision-making that drive our overall programme success and performance improvement in delivering commodities on-time, to quality, and cost.

The Programme co-ordinator's responsibility is to provide data driven co-ordination for Procurement teams, ensuring strategy and sourcing requirements for programme delivery are understood, planned, and executed at the required quality, time and cost, following an agile project/programme delivery system

This includes:

Effective and efficient communication between procurement and core stakeholders; facilitating crossfunctional working to ensure that project requirements/stakeholder objectives and procurement objectives/deliverables are aligned and delivered with visibility, impact fully understood & delivered.
Act as the primary liaison between stakeholders and procurement (representing the procurement function) with a focus on early engagement to support sourcing planning and understanding of project priorities to enable a focus on critical path timing.
Providing communication and visibility of procurement activity, reporting status on sourcing delivery to the Global Procurement directors, the wider function and the programme teams; ensuring risks, issues and changes are managed in line with project governance and driving accountability for deliverables.
Support key development of any new process requirements for strategy & new supplier relationships

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES:

Responsible to support the engagement with stakeholders to understand impact on programme requirements and the development & delivery of those requirements in line with overall business strategy.
Responsible to support the development and maintenance of procurement at category level, ensuring that projects/ programmes requirements are effectively documented and continually monitored so that procurement capacity remains able to support the business requirements.
Responsible to represent the procurement function through programme operational meetings and ensure commercial inputs and outputs are actioned in accordance with Programme Requirements.
Responsible to help develop accurate data and concise management reporting, to support major programmes.
Responsible to support the reporting to senior business leaders, on strategic programmes forums from a procurement perspective, clearly communicating the continued ability of procurement to meet their requirements.
Responsible to support the appropriate communication with stakeholders, act as the escalation point within procurement for Programmes that require issue resolution into senior stakeholders.

Responsible to support the effective management of core project governance processes ie Risk, issues, change, assumptions.

WHAT YOU-LL NEED:

Essential:

Experience in complex project management and /or procurement environment
Excellent stakeholder management and relationship management skills with clear understanding of how to facilitate cross functional team work to meet objectives
Strong analytical, influencing and problemsolving skills
Highly agile with ability to manage and deliver multiple work streams within tight deadlines Excellent computer skills specifically in Microsoft Excel

SO WHY US?

Bring all this to the home of premium innovation, and you'll find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, a discounted car purchase and lease scheme for you and your family, membership of a competitive pension plan and performance related bonus scheme.

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