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Procurement Operations Manager -12-month FTC ( MSP/ Staffing Industry )Allegis Global Solutions • Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Procurement Operations Manager -12-month FTC ( MSP/ Staffing Industry )

Procurement Operations Manager -12-month FTC ( MSP/ Staffing Industry )

Allegis Global Solutions • Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
26 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Permanent
  • Temporary
Job description
Company Description

Working at Allegis Global Solutions (AGS) is more than just a job. It's a career. It's a community of people who invest in your development and empower you to blaze your own trail. Each of us is here to create real, measurable impact that moves needles. We operate beyond "roles" or "jobs" to realize the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to a bigger idea. Because we believe that when you build a workforce that's designed to harness human enterprise, you design a workforce that's built for impact.

At AGS, we help companies all over the world transform their people into a competitive advantage. It's not about filling seats. It's about designing workforces to meet missions and unleash the most transformative power in business today: The power of human enterprise.

With services around the globe, we have a point of view on the future of work that enables us to be a transformative partner in the way work gets done for our clients' organizations. Meeting clients where they are, we design a plan and guide them along a transformational journey, applying bold actions and diverse minds to solve the most complex challenges - from permanent and extended workforce management to services procurement, consulting, direct sourcing and our Universal Workforce Model™.

We also represent over 100 countries and speak dozens of languages. So as you're building relationships and doing your job, you'll be exposed to other cultures and advancement opportunities while expanding your knowledge of global markets and strategies.

See what it's like to work at AGS by searching #LifeAtAGS on any social network.

Job Description

Based in the UK, we are currently looking to hire a Procurement Operations Manager on a 12-month fixed-term contract (FTC), with an estimated start date in mid-October.

The Procurement Operations Manager is responsible for managing a high-performing team that is delivering a successful Sourcing Insights program. They should be focused on changing the procurement process for labor-based services (typically on SOW) and ensuring that procurement stakeholders can be the strategic advisors to their business that they desire to be. They are also responsible for managing the Procurement Specialists and Coordinators, providing direction and development.

Responsibilities:
  • Manage functional areas of team at all levels.
  • Customer interaction and relationship management for all procurement operational activities.
  • Work with client and internal AGS team to develop and deliver relevant presentations, as needed.
  • Monitor and adjust workload of team, as necessary to deliver efficiently and to SLAs.
  • Career manage team, including performance and EBRs.
  • Train and mentor team.
  • Manage relationships with internal support / shared services teams to ensure a cohesive solution to client.
  • Manage client expectations through timely feedback and proactive communication.
  • Identify risk situations and develop mitigation strategies.
  • Analyze business information to identify issues or trends and propose actions to refine success.
  • Point of contact for escalations - both from client, as well as internally.
  • Manage complex customer issues.
  • Develop team in a customer-focused work environment.

Qualifications
  • Procurement experience, or equivalent functional competencies.
  • Bachelor's degree preferred, with a focus on business, finance or supply chain management.
  • Significant experience with procurement and/or sourcing processes, focused on services spend categories.
  • Deep understanding of strategic sourcing and category management processes and their connection to broader procurement strategy.
  • Correlation of spend data to strategic decisions.
  • VMS and/or eProcurement/sourcing tools to process requirements, develop Statements of Work (SOWs) and build and manage RFPs.
  • Knowledge of negotiation principles, contract terms and relationships between MSAs, SOWs and Purchase Orders.
  • Strong knowledge of the MSP value proposition, and its relation to management of services spend.
  • Ability to lead and manage a team of high performers.
  • High level of service delivery.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong data competency specific to spend analysis.
  • Ability to derive "data stories" from structured data elements to enable and drive decision making.
  • Able to interpret complex data and distill down to meaningful and consumable elements.
  • Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Project planning.
  • Strong competency in change management principles and proven results in driving change and influencing detractors.
  • Risk identification and development of mitigation strategies.
  • Applicable knowledge of financial results and definition and development of cost savings approaches.
  • SLAs, KPIs and other performance metrics, as well as development of reporting and analytics of same.

Additional Information

At AGS we operate a hybrid working policy - we recognise individuals want the flexibility of working from home but with the option to be in an office when needed. Our UK AGS office locations are Bracknell, London and Birmingham with client site locations across the UK. If you're lucky enough to be within a commutable distance of one of our AGS collaborative offices, this will be your allocated work home but you'll still have the piece of mind to flex your working week accordingly. On occasion some of our job adverts will state an in-office/on-site need but rest assured you'll be with a wonderful team to work, develop and grow.

We want everyone to be able to perform at their best during our recruitment process and as a Disability Confident Committed employer, we will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who best meet the minimum or essential criteria for the role. We want our recruitment process to be inclusive and accessible to all, so if you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any adjustments, changes or do anything differently, please let us know by emailing EMEAAGSTAPTeam@allegisglobalsolutions.com and we will do our best to make suitable arrangements.
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