Exciting time to join a leading global organistion during a time of significant time of change and transformation. M&A initiatives here in abundance.

Hybrid role; multiple office locations available - Yorkshire, Glasgow, Buckinghamshire.

- Sole Contributor
- Supporting Engagement Leads with internal and external engagements
- drive cost and procurement strategy
- taking strategy ideas to the Senior Leadership Team- considering industry changes etc / market best practice etc
- own outward facing intection with CIPS, ACCA and Procurement Leaders
- own Procurement brand, comms, town hall events, supplier events
- Big people person (50%) - owns L&D piece for an entire Procurement function of 100+
- "The first to the dancefloor" Bringing people with you...

The scope of the role will require you to work across all of Cost and Procurement and the organisations supply chain, alongside the Service Management community of practice teams. Delivering functional enablement, training, communication and people strategy requirements. You will report directly into the Cost & Procurement Insight and Enablement Lead. The role includes the following responsibilities; * Taking insight from stakeholder surveys, supplier surveys, market insights and external benchmarks work with cost partners, category managers, service managers and suppliers to deliver excellence in Cost and Procurement. * Delivering a people capabilities plan to align with current talent capability plans and future state across Cost and Procurement team. * Deliver measurable People capability improvements with the ultimate goal of achieve upper quartile results for all areas. * Translating business and functional goals into tangible team objectives * Responsible for embedding and increasing utilisation of our operating model and correlating frameworks, including increasing our brand awareness and promotion * Develop and implement a Cost and Procurement people development model with strong alignment to ensure development of common standards, best practice sharing across regions and continuous improvement.