Job Description

Job Category: Supply Chain
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Job Title: Procurement Specialist
Team: Supply Chain
Reports To: Procurement Manager (Centre)
Contract Length: Permanent
Grade: P3
Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location.
Time Zone (that the role holder must be available to work in): UK
Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment.
Language Requirements: English
International Travel Requirements: None
Budget Responsibility: None
People Management Responsibility: None
Team and Job Purpose
SCI's Supply Chain's vision is "to ensure that children can access quality goods and services at all times to help them survive, learn and be protected". Our corresponding mission is "to provide goods and services at the right time, quality, and cost, enabling impactful, safe, and sustainable program delivery for children.
The Procurement function is composed of over 500 colleagues in over 50 countries focused on the supply of goods and services. We are responsible for over 15,000 suppliers with whom we source over $400m with each year. After staff pay, this represents Save the Children's largest expenditure and is a critical enabler to ensure our programmes and advocacy work achieve impact for children.
We pride ourselves on providing compliant and efficient procurement, focused on a commercial mindset, sustainability and service. This is enabled through sector-leading policies and procedures, comprehensive training, a pioneering supplier sustainability programme and an award-winning Source-to-Pay technology platform.
The Strategic Sourcing Team is a core part of Procurement and is responsible for the strategy and approach to sourcing across all office locations. Specific responsibilities include:
- Ensuring the right global supply solutions are in place by completing above country sourcing activities.
- Suppliers are managed effectively, in order to achieve maximum value for money.
- Ensuring the right strategies are in place for all locally sourced goods / services by implementing category strategies.
- Providing support and guidance to local procurement staff, through formal training / capacity building programmes and ad hoc support.
- Ensuring that procurement policy / procedures / tools etc. are up to date, relevant and well understood by all staff.
Role purpose
To support the delivery of compliant, effective and efficient procurement for the London office and Global Functions, whilst achieving Value for Money. This will involve supporting the Procurement Manager,
completing sourcing activities, partnering with key stakeholders and providing Procurement system and procedural support to customers.Principal
Accountabilities

• Responsible for leading sourcing events for the Global Functions in line with our category-specific sourcing strategies.

• Responsible for ProSave user adoption and issue resolution of ProSave queries for our Global Functions

working closely with the integrated support model..

• Responsible for ProSave and Procurement training for new joiners in the Global Functions and refresher training to SLT's teams.

• Support the ProSave Functional Support and IT with complex issues (including change requests and

system design) relating complex system needs of the global functions.

• Support the Procurement Manager with Supplier Management activities e.g. Annual Business Reviews.

• Represent Procurement in Global Function's team meetings

Experience and Skills
Essential
1. Understanding of SCI Procurement Policies and Procedures
2. Deep S2P knowledge to address complex issues
3. Able to deploy new technologies to Global Functions
4. Problem solving in a process/system/procedure environment
5. Leading Sourcing activities
6. Procurement Operations / Sourcing/Buying
7. Project Management
8. (Senior-level) internal Client Service & stakeholder management
9. Business Partnering
10. Able to train confidently to all levels
Desirable
1. Experience with sourcing and procurement support at head or regional office level for large international organisation covering significant third party spend in categories such as IT, HR, Legal and PR.
Key Relationships
Internal (excluding direct team and manager)

• The role works closely with Global Functions Budget Holders and Requesters (e.g. IT, Insurance, RMCE, HR etc.), Supplier Operations, Legal, Finance & Accounts Payable, and Supply Chain Analysts to ensure alignment cross functionally and organization wide.

External

• Third party suppliers (TBC which suppliers depending on scope of role)
• Sector bodies / working groups - e.g. Logs Cluster, IAPG, WREC etc.

Competencies
Cluster: Leading
Competency: Leading and inspiring others Level: Accomplished
Behavioural Indicator: Takes a flexible and positive leadership style adapting to a given situation or to the needs of the team.
Cluster : Leading
Competency: Delivering results Level: Accomplished
Behavioural Indicator: Establishes clear and compelling objectives with teams and individuals and monitors progress and performance.
Cluster: Thinking
Competency: Problem solving and decision making Level: Accomplished
Behavioural Indicator: Makes informed strategic decisions based on full evaluation of the opportunities and risks of each idea and solution.
Cluster: Thinking
Competency: Applying technical and professional expertise Level: Accomplished
Behavioural Indicator: Shares knowledge and best practice on technical solutions so that others can make best use of that expertise.
Cluster: Engaging Competency: Networking Level: Skilled
Behavioural Indicator: Maintains and develops a range of contacts and keeps them informed.
Cluster: Engaging
Competency: Communicating with impact Level: Accomplished
Behavioural Indicator: Conveys complex issues with clarity, brevity, and confidence.