Procurement Digital Technology Manager
Overview:
We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 78,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better.We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.
At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton, Yeovil & Lille. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
We’re recruiting for a Procurement Digital Technology Manager to join our Group Procurement team with a focus on building and leading the implementation of the Procurement IT Roadmap. You’ll have responsibility of leading Procurement master data, automation and integration through all our procurement systems, implementation of the Procure to Pay content strategy and will shape and implement digitisation capabilities to help drive operational efficiencies.The role comes with line management responsibility.
What's the job?:
- Lead procurement IT roadmap approved by Procurement Senior Management and ensure it is implemented accordingly.
- Ensure full adoption of Source to Pay processes and tools within Procurement by measuring and proposing improvement plans
- Define and lead P2P ways to buy, buying channels and content strategy
- Ensure that the right P2P content is in place to deliver the upmost value, depending on the suppliers, the categories and the countries (price list, punch-out catalogues, preferred supplier lists, marketplaces, forms etc…)
- Measure maturity journey and engage with banner senior leadership to contribute to key S2P strategic milestones thanks to content improvement in a fast-moving environment
- Monitor compliant use of all S2P procurement channels and their payment methodology
- Lead initial supplier enablement for the last banners not yet Coupa deployed
- Identify and promote opportunity to reduce the administrative burden within Procurement.
What you'll bring:
- Strong knowledge and experience of Coupa (Coupa certification required)
- Proven experience in Procurement methodologies, processes and tools together with an omni-channel approach to the supplier market
- Broad experience of ERP systems and their integration into business
- Experience of lean procurement (Lean Six Sigma knowledge desirable).
- Strong interpersonal, leadership and communication skills managing a range of stakeholder relationships.
- I listen to my customers
- I use available data to help make decisions
- I do the right thing
- I am respectful
- I build and share new ideas
- I try new things and share my learnings
- I have courage to be creative
- Done is better than perfect, I aim for 80/20
- I embrace allyship
- I have self-awareness and a desire to learn
- I own my actions
- I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role
At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.
In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!
We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.
Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.
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