Procurement Manager

at  Novuna

Are you a procurement professional with experience of planning and executing tender frameworks, now looking for the next chapter in your career? Excited by the prospect of joining a leading, award winning vehicle leasing and fleet management company with a focus on achieving decarbonisation goals?
If your answer is ‘yes’ keep reading.

WANT TO KNOW A LITTLE ABOUT US?

At Novuna Vehicle Solutions, we’re passionate about building a better tomorrow. Which is why we’re lighting the way in the electric vehicle revolution. From family cars to HGVs, we’re helping customers of all kinds on their journey to carbon-free mobility.
We’re proud to be a Top 50 Inclusive employer. We’re a signatory of the Women in Finance and the Race at Work Charter and we’re Disability Confident Committed.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

To be considered for this role you’ll have proven experience within a procurement environment as a buyer, category manager or similar, successfully planning and executing tender frameworks. You’ll be comfortable negotiating, writing and managing supplier contracts and have knowledge of legislative requirements and statutory obligations. This position has one direct report so experience of people management is a requirement of the role.

Also, we’re looking for the following:

• The ability to manage stakeholders across a variety of levels, both internally and externally
• Continuous professional development evidenced by CIPS qualifications or similar
• Automotive industry experience is highly desirable

WHAT DOES THE ROLE INVOLVE?

Reporting into our Senior Procurement Manager you’ll work as part of a professional procurement function to ensure that services purchased by Novuna Vehicle Solutions are managed throughout the procurement lifecycle, planning and executing tender frameworks, ensuring that we mitigate risk, provide cost efficiency, explore innovative solutions and work with suppliers that deliver excellent outcomes for our customers.

SOME OF YOUR KEY DUTIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Conducting market research to identify marketing leading propositions and cost efficient solutions
• Supporting the evaluation of tender submissions, providing detailed business case outcomes with adherence to corporate governance
• Conduct commercial supplier negotiations for new and existing contracts
• Ensuring our processes and procedures, documentation, controls and BCP’s meet corporate governance requirements
  We adopt a hybrid approach to our ways of working which for this role will see you based from our modern office in Trowbridge (Wiltshire) a minimum of 2 days per week.