Key Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously enhance procurement governance, sourcing compliance, and procurement assurance activities across multiple business units, ensuring adherence to established procurement policies, delegated authority frameworks, and organisational standards.
• Develop, implement, and maintain robust procurement policies, governance frameworks, operating procedures, control libraries, and compliance mechanisms that promote transparency, auditability, consistency, and best-practice procurement management.
• Drive end-to-end procurement process optimisation initiatives, leveraging data analytics, automation, and operational excellence methodologies to improve efficiency, reduce cycle times, eliminate process bottlenecks, and strengthen procurement outcomes.
• Design and implement predictive compliance monitoring, risk detection models, automated controls, and governance reporting capabilities that proactively identify sourcing risks, policy deviations, and control weaknesses before they impact business performance.
• Oversee sourcing governance activities across RFx processes, supplier evaluation methodologies, award recommendations, and procurement decision-making to ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and recognised procurement best practices.
• Champion supplier due diligence, supplier risk management, contract compliance, and supplier performance governance, ensuring effective mitigation of operational, financial, commercial, and reputational risks throughout the procurement lifecycle.
• Partner with category management, sourcing, legal, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders to identify process inefficiencies, strengthen governance controls, and deliver sustainable procurement transformation initiatives.
• Conduct compliance assessments, governance reviews, and post-award audits to validate sourcing decisions, improve accountability, and ensure transparency throughout procurement and supplier selection activities.
• Support the establishment and continuous refinement of enterprise-wide risk mitigation programmes, ensuring procurement controls remain effective and aligned with evolving business requirements and market conditions.
• Monitor supplier quality, sourcing compliance levels, and procurement control effectiveness, implementing corrective actions where required and promoting a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Act as a subject matter expert for procurement governance, compliance management, process excellence, and analytics, providing guidance, coaching, and best-practice recommendations to procurement teams and stakeholders.
• Promote the adoption of leading procurement technologies, governance tools, and digital solutions to strengthen procurement visibility, control effectiveness, supplier oversight, and overall procurement maturity.

Required Skills & Competencies

Interested in speaking with professionals from procurement excellence, procurement transformation, supply chain governance, sourcing governance, operational excellence, process improvement, procurement analytics, or procurement risk management backgrounds.

Essential Experience

• 13+ years of experience within Procurement, Supply Chain, Strategic Sourcing, Governance, Risk, or Operational Excellence environments.
• 7+ years’ experience in procurement governance, compliance management, and process controls.
• Proven experience using data analytics to drive process improvement, supply chain governance compliance monitoring, and business performance.
• Experience with procurement systems such as SAP, Oracle, Coupa, Ariba, Ivalua, or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of supplier risk management, sourcing governance, procurement policy, and control frameworks.
• Exposure to Python, R, data science, spend analytics, or advanced reporting tools is highly desirable.
• Experience in continuous improvement through the implementation of best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, Analytics, Computer Science, or related discipline
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