Procurement Lead

Guildford, Surrey
AQA Education

Procurement Lead

Maternity Cover Fixed Term Contract- 12 months

Guildford: £46,000 – £52,000 per year

Hybrid working model mix of office and home working during the week

Are you looking to increase your Procurement knowledge and work in both an Indirect and Direct sourcing environment?

This maternity cover contract will open the doors for you to work in a number of categories across the business widening your portfolio of expertise.

You can you see ways to capitalise on opportunities and deliver quick but sound business benefits, alongside managing a team of 2 Sourcing specialists.

This is your chance to work closely with 3 specialist Category Managers, as well as supporting, guiding and leading a team of 2 all under the guidance of the Head of the Procurement department.

Confidence in providing pragmatic and expert advice and guidance to senior managers across the business on procurement related processes and strategies is key.

What’s in it for you?

• You’ll work on a hybrid working model and one which works for you and the team alike, with the ability to pay up to 7% into your pension and employer contributions up to 11.5% , 25 days annual leave with Christmas on top rising with service, alongside a host of other wellbeing benefits including the Headspace App, Life assurance, PMI and Access to a Health Cash plan as well as a Cycle to Work schemes .

In your role as Procurement Lead you will work with the wider team where last year alone they worked on close to 300 complex contracts across the organisation. You will work across-section of sectors and suppliers including, Technology, Facilities, HR, Marketing, Events and Operations will form part of your overall responsibility. AQA are diving into one of its main strategic aims of digitally diversifying and focusing on the future of assessment in innovative and technically minded ways.

What will you be doing?

• Supporting and taking full management responsibility for your team, you will enable a real focus on team development, growth and future succession planning as well as being pivotal in allowing everyone to focus on continuous improvements.
• Ensuring crucial coordination of workloads associated with contract reviews, contract builds, benchmarking/RFx exercises and other allocated projects.
• A key conduit with the Category Managers, the wider business and external suppliers across the coordination and management of all sourcing-related activities.
• Full responsibility for all RFx projects at all level of sourcing suppliers. You will have oversight and management after briefings from the Category Managers to go to market at pace and review and analyse all viable options.
• Provide key and proactive assistance to the Category Managers in the supplier relationship management process and take responsibility for the coordination of meetings and follow-ups. The supplier relationship management project is crucial to AQA as it ensures that suppliers match their contractual obligations, that risks to AQA are mitigated and the relationship with suppliers is enhanced to ensure we are seen as a partner of choice to companies.

AQA fully utilise contract management software (Jaggear/Bravo/Workday) to enable detailed reviews of contracts, to build contracts, review and formally evaluate RFIs and RFPs, to monitor individual supplier performance (accuracy, productivity, progress and compliance) and to be able to obtain relevant/key reports.

This will be something you are already familiar with and will be able to develop full and subject matter expertise in.

What next?

For the next step in your procurement career apply today and tell us about yourself

Every application will receive a written response

Internally this role is currently known as a Procurement Support Team Lead