Strategic Procurement Leader

Job Description

Strategic Procurement Leader

Full Time

Derby/Hybrid (our standard hybrid arrangement is 3 days/week on-site)

Why Rolls-Royce?

Are you an experienced strategic procurement professional who would like to work in a world class engineering and manufacturing environment? - Then we may have a right opportunity for you!
 

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join us as a Strategic Procurement Leader in the Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace Business.

In this role, you will be responsible for creating the procurement strategy, supplier selection and performance management.  The performance of our external supply chain is critical to all of our business metrics, the Rolls-Royce Procurement team are central to Rolls-Royce success.

You will be expected to lead the activities within the four Strategic Procurement Categories (Raw Material and Forming, Design Make, Complex Machining and Finished Components) and engagement with Operating Business Units (OBUs) and Functions.

We deliver the best jet engines in the world. We’re proud to be part of the pathway to net zero as we power society for generations to come.

Work with us and we’ll welcome you into an inclusive culture, one that invests in your continuous learning and development, and gives you access to a wide breadth and depth of experience.

Work at Rolls-Royce in a busy, world-class engineering environment.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.  As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

You will use (and further develop) your commercial agility and leadership skills as part of a deployed role working on projects to deliver most value to the Strategic Procurement team.

• Evaluate insights including spend analyses, risk management/ mitigation, market research, category analysis, and sourcing event recommendations.

• Deliver and action opportunities for cost savings and use expert negotiation skills to deliver value and leverage to contracts regardless of procurement category.

• Deliver the wider strategic procurement KPI commitments in line with agreed metrics and ensure adherence to functional processes and procedures.

• Mentor the team members that you are supporting and working with enabling high performing teams.

• Be responsible for ensuring commercial negotiations are carried out in line with ATS.

Who we are looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. And for this role in particular, we are looking for an experienced professional with Strategic procurement experience and good negotiation skills/experience.

• Experience of working in similar role at a large organisation in complex engineering or a similar industry.

• Stakeholder management experience.

• Strategy and negotiation experience.

• Ability to work as part of a small or larger team depending on the project.

• Ability to influence and deliver results where there may be limited background knowledge.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse team and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Closing date: 2nd November 2023

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Job Category

Procurement

Posting Date

30 Oct 2023; 00:10