Principal Business Solutions & Improvement Officer

Principal Business Solutions & Improvement Officer Location: Stevenage (Relocation Package available) Work Arrangement: Flexible approach to onsite and remote working, typically 2-3 days a week on site Salary: Up to £50,000 depending on experience

What We Can Offer You:

Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave. Enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments.
Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…
Training and Development: Excellent career progression, training and career development opportunities

The Role:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a seasoned improvement practitioner to join our fast-moving Procurement and Supply Chain team. In this role, you will lead functional improvements across processes, tools, and methodologies, enhancing overall efficiency and driving transformation initiatives.
Key responsibilities include project management of tools improvement activities, implementing new policies and processes, and supporting teams through training and communication. You will also manage resilience assessments, data analysis, and project reporting to support the Procurement & Supply Chain Domain strategy.
If you have a passion for driving best practices, promoting functional excellence, and delivering impactful improvements, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

Support the UK Procurement and Supply Chain identification, development, and implementation of functional improvement and transformation activities.
Project Manage tools improvement activities in support of Procurement and Supply Chain activities.
Create, publish and support the implementation of new policies and processes through training and communication to the Procurement and Supply Chain teams.
Provide ongoing functional support regarding the improvement / implementation of processes and tools.
For the following projects specifically, work with internal customers and manage solution suppliers to implement, improve and deliver the Procurement & Supply Chain Domain strategy:
Procurement & Supply Chain resilience assessment process.
Analysis of data sets and sources for resilience.
Project tracking and reporting.
Analyse best general practices from industrial benchmarking of other relevant companies.
Promote best practice and functional excellence:
Collaborating functionally and cross functionally on improvement initiative and projects
Develop and enhance the working practices between all areas of Procurement.
Challenge the current ways of thinking and practices
Drive efficiency of procurement and supply chain system initiatives through ongoing measurement and evaluation of their impact by using system data and KPIs to prioritise activities.
Drive improvements for the Knowledge Management approach within ISP UK
Plan, develop and deliver training materials to support the implementation of system improvement projects.
Project manage deliverables against plan and communicate across functions.
Identify the relevant governance is in place as part of improvement control / progress plans.
Collaborate and support BS&I and Improvement / Supply Chain Excellence functions.

What We're Looking for From You:

On the job experience will be vast and will take you into different cultures and practices. You will have the chance to improve your competence by attendance of training, coaching and knowledge capitalisation events carried out from within the Procurement and Supply Chain Academy.
You will already have a broad experience working in a variety of Procurement & Supply Chain roles.
Experience of working in a complex matrix organisation, with an ability to work collaboratively, build relationships and demonstrate value-add.
You will have good analytical and presentation skills, able to distil analysis to a meaningful direction for the receiver (possible actions to be taken).
You will have excellent organisational and project management skills, with the ability to monitor and drive to completion.
A proven track record of delivering improvements in a Procurement & Supply Chain environment.
Knowledge of SAP and Ivalua would be an advantage.
Security Clearance: Due to the nature of the role, you will be required to gain UK government security clearance. To achieve this, you must hold British or dual nationality.

If interested, please get in touch with Albe at (url removed) or call (phone number removed)