Vice President Procurement Excellence

Full time (flexible working patterns will be considered)

Working location: Global - flexible on location

Why Rolls-Royce?

Join our Rolls-Royce Business as VP - Procurement Excellence. In this role you will be responsible for leading the Procurement Excellence team, including the Procurement Systems & Data team, with the aim of delivering class-leading, digitally enabled ways of working across all source to contract activity, governance and decision-making.

The Vice President of Procurement Excellence will lead a team who will look to consistently develop innovative solutions to drive efficiency, effectiveness, transparency, financial savings and supplier performance through the way we operate, enabling delivery of all key targets across the 5Y. You will be a key leader and influencer of change across the Procurement function and wider business as a whole.

Rolls Royce offers more than just a job; you'll be part of an inclusive culture that champions continuous learning and development, providing you with a wealth of experience and growth opportunities. There has never been a more exciting time to be part of Procurement within Rolls-Royce as our recent transformation programme has positioned the function as a critical Business Capability, trusted to deliver against our ambitious performance and financial targets. Beyond engine parts and aftermarket services, our procurement team acquires everything needed to run our company from IT services to catering, and we have opportunities in both our Aerospace Category Teams and Indirect Procurement Teams, with roles focusing on both strategic sourcing and strategic in-contract management.

Rolls-Royce is embracing the future of procurement by developing a digitally enabled and literate organisation, alongside a focus on embedding sustainability into the way we operate both internally and across our supply chain.

We offer excellent career development, competitive salaries, and exceptional benefits including bonuses, employee support and discounts.

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, frequency will depend on business needs, nature of role, what works for the team and for the individual. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

What you will be doing:

Setting the framework and standards for Procurement strategy, negotiations, contracting and supplier management for the Group.
Benchmarking functional performance and capability against 'world class' standards to drive continuous improvement.
Owning the systems, data and digital strategy and delivery for the Procurement function, leveraging the relevant technology to deliver actionable insights to the rest of the function.
Ensuring all standards are consistently deployed into each division and governance is routinely and rigorously followed.
Defining, developing and where appropriate delivering a robust functional capability framework and associated training & learning offerings.
Developing and managing the Procurement Capability and Talent Pipeline.
Ownership of internal and external functional communications and engagement.
Drive Compliance to Operating model and standards.

Who we're looking for:

A global outlook and exposure to different challenges, cultures and ways of working.
Experience of leading teams, influencing and building relationships at all levels of the organisation.
Proven delivery of managing change programmes, embedding core standards and new ways of working.
Depth of knowledge and experience in Procurement roles and working practices.
Programme management skills and experience would be advantageous.
Experience of capability building within teams would be advantageous.

Join us & Power our future

Pioneers of Power

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Job Category

Procurement

Posting Date

04 Oct 2024; 00:10

Posting End Date

18 Oct 2024

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