Senior Manager - Operational Procurement - BOC (A Linde Company), leading global business
Your new company
BOC are looking for high calibre business or procurement background professionals with strategic mindsets to join their team. If you are results driven, champion in change management, have the tenacity to navigate through ambiguity and the desire to pursue a career with a multinational company, please view the Microsite and some further details below.
https://webmicrosites.hays.co.uk/web/boc-procurement/welcome
Your new role
This is an exciting role that requires a forward-looking leader who can lead and manage multi-disciplinary procurement initiatives to deliver the ‘best in class operational procurement performance.
As a strategic leader, you will play a key role in driving procurement process excellence with our outsourced operational procurement team and wider Procurement team, guiding the transition to a more efficient, digitally enabled, and category management-focused organisation. This position offers an exciting opportunity to deliver process optimisation, digital transformation, and improve the use of value-added analytics to drive productivity improvement within the business.
Alongside this, the Senior Manager Ops Procurement Excellence, Digitalisation and Analytics leads and manages a small team of Procurement Specialists covering our Procurement analytics, data, systems, and processes. This role directly manages, develops, motivates, and inspires them to be an engaged and effective team
Furthermore, this role has the opportunity to learn and leverage the global buying power that comes from being part of the Linde group, as they collaborate and work closely with the regional and global teams sharing learnings and best practices of working particularly around digitalisation.
By working with global colleagues, they are also responsible for ensuring Procurement compliance within our region aligned to the Linde Group standards.
What you'll need to succeed
• Degree & CIPS/MCIPS qualification and/or a minimum of 5 years+ working experience in a Procurement/sourcing function, with the ability to lead related operational excellence and digitialised procurement process initiatives
• Experienced strategic sourcing, category management and/or procurement skills demonstrated at a mid to senior level
• Demonstrated successful leadership skills across managing people, teams & change with experience in building and engaging an effective team
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a collaborative approach and the ability to develop positive working relationships cross functionally both internally and externally, particularly with senior stakeholders
• Comfortable working closely with cross functional stakeholder groups across an organisation e.g. Finance/Project Management
• Deep understanding of procurement technologies such as SAP Ariba, and the passion, digital mindset and experience in driving automation and e-procurement initiatives
• A passion and proven experience for driving operational excellence, continual improvement, and process optimisation
• A high level of planning, self-organisational and execution skills, backed up with experience in agile delivery methods
• Excellent level of business insight with an analytical approach to data and analytics when needed
• Passion to drive results and a want to get things done and in the best possible way
• Comfortable working in a complex and changing organization working in scenarios of ambiguity
• Works with integrity, role modelling the behaviours aligned to being an inclusive workplace
What you'll get in return
This is a great opportunity to join an international organisation where you can develop and grow and see the impact of your work
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.
- Mandy Lynn
