Head of Central Procurement Services
Skanska Uk Plc, Ayot Green, Hertfordshire
Head of Central Procurement Services
Salary not available. View on company website.
Skanska Uk Plc, Ayot Green, Hertfordshire
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 12 Mar | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 33c1c28808114f1b812c5225bdb4433a
Full Job Description
- Ensure that the Central businesses sustainable procurement strategy clearly reflects Skanska's 2027 vision for Industry leading supply chain that includes: Health, Safety, Environment, Ethical, Equality, Social, Community, Economic and Digital Engineering requirements
- Through departmental leadership, provide a positive impact on Skanska's vision and values throughout the procurement process.
- Ensure Skanska profitability is increased by close relationships to Operational teams
- Represent the EF on the Skanska UK Procurement Leadership Team
- Forge relationships with strategic suppliers and subcontractors
- Maximise leverage and synergies across OU's, EF's and Corporate departments
- Ensure is Procurement Department is operating within business policies and procedures.
- Work in partnership with the Service Delivery Team [and Innovations Team] to identify business requirements and enhance process automation and data visibility in line with Procurement objectives.
- Identify key stakeholders and engage with business users to validate business process requirements, ensuring alignment across the BU as necessary and creating business case proposals for appropriate sign-off when required.
- Represent Procurement when investigating Oracle enhancement recommendations to enhance productivity through more efficient ways of working and lead a robust cross-OU evaluation process to sign off new Oracle releases or revised ways of working.
- Accountable for reporting key performance metrics on ERP Adoption.
- Oversee the data cleansing roadmap to ensure a high-quality global supplier address book is available for the BU, encompassing both Oracle and non-Oracle supply chains.
- Identify and provide accurate business analytics to enable the assessment and mitigation of risks associated with procurement activities, such as financial position, and supply chain utilisation.
- Ensure analytics are available to support reporting performance by the supply chain against business plan and client commitments (social value, carbon, digital, SCSS data, plus visibility cross-OU if shared supplier).
A strong leader, able to influence others and implement effective change. - Extensive experience of procurement
- Product knowledge of materials and plant and subcontracts
- Extensive knowledge of suppliers, subcontractors, market prices and trends
- Ability to negotiate competitively and effectively
- MCIPS qualified or industry equivalent.
- Experience and knowledge of P2P processes within Oracle Fusion and how they impact across the BU.
- Proven ability to identify best practice and provide lessons learnt summaries across the Group to support Oracle and other standard process adoption.
- Critical senior stakeholder management and cross-OU collaboration
- Be a member and active contributor to Procurement Leadership Team.
- Extensive expertise in Supply Chain Relationship Management
- An aptitude for process development and improvement
- Competent in the use of 0365 software specifically MS Excel, and Multiple Purchasing systems
Skanska, one of the world's leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.
Direct job link
https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/head-of-central-procurement-services-124753495
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