Job Title
Director of UK Procurement
Reference
UK002844
Town
London
Business Line
Procurement
Intro
At RSA, we believe insurance is about people, not things. We provide our inspiring colleagues the support and opportunity to grow together, shape the future, and win as a team. We are going through a transformation journey, providing our people with opportunity to be integral to improving our service and delivering better products to brokers and customers. We are a proud member of the Intact family, we feel part of something bigger, with a presence in North America, the UK and Europe. We have a bold ambition to become the best Commercial Lines business in the UK, demonstrated by our recent acquisition of NIG and Farmweb, allowing us to scale by leveraging our combined financial strength and importantly ensure our people feel the benefits of our joint capabilities. We are currently recruiting for a Director of UK Procurement to join our established and experienced UK Procurement Strategy team here at RSA. This is a permanent role, based from our London office and will require travel across the UK.
Your Role
As Director of UK Procurement, you will be responsible for leading the UK procurement strategy and will have accountability for the sourcing of indirect spend and building influential relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver excellent commercial outcomes for the business. Your role will be responsible for leading the sourcing strategy over a wide range of third party expenditure, which is predominantly driven by IT related expenditure in excess of £200m. You will be leading a team of professional experts and will be responsible for developing an excellent capability in the procurement team, through technical ability and stakeholder management, delivering a proactive, professional and highly commercial service. You will be accountable for building a clear category management plan, utilising a high-performing, cost-efficient team that is aligned to the transformation roadmap, as well as BAU and ad-hoc sourcing Your role will be accountable for the management of the indirect procurement compliance, performance insights, policy and process framework. You will also ensure there is effective collaboration with Third Party Management (TPM) and Relationship/ Supplier Management teams as appropriate. You will deliver the strategic transformation of the procurement processes, systems and operations whilst supporting organisation wide procedures for governance, risk and control that manage, mitigate and minimise risks to RSA and its partners
About You
You will have held previous roles in senior procurement positions whilst delivering excellent commercial outcomes. With extensive experience in IT procurement, leading large and varied technology contract negotiations. You will be able to demonstrate effective and influential collaboration with senior stakeholders and strategically important suppliers. You will have experience of ensuring that Indirect spend is managed effectively and will be expected to take accountability to ensure excellent commercial outcomes are achieved. Enabled by close engagement with stakeholders to understand operational plans and strategic objectives. You will have led and managed a team of professional experts delivering an excellent service, whilst providing leadership and advice on complex, strategic and contentious issues related to Indirect spend, engaging and influencing internal and external stakeholders where appropriate. You will have maintained accurate and timely management and performance information to enable assessment of indirect procurement performance. This will include assessing and resolving issues and risks in compliance with the governance framework.
What we offer you
At RSA we put our people first. We have adopted hybrid working as standard, to give you a better work/life balance and an excellent flexible working mindset. That is on top of a comprehensive range of benefits, including pension contributions of up to 11% looking after you now, and in the future. We will give you countless opportunities to continuously develop, alongside a diverse and passionate community of experts, the best the industry has to offer. You will be empowered to be your best self, do your best work, and make a meaningful impact. Our employee promise allows you to shape the future, win as a team, and grow with us.
About Us
We celebrate individuality and it is important to us that we have a culture where our people feel respected and valued for who they are. We pride ourselves on being accessible and encourage inclusive environments where our people can always give and show the very best of themselves. We understand that home life is a priority and are happy to consider reduced hours or job shares. If you think you would be a great fit for us, but do not meet all the requirements of the role, please contact us as we would love to discuss how RSA could be the next step in your career journey. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. If you wish to be considered under the scheme then please answer yes to the question Do you wish to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme? in RSAs application form Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact our recruitment team so we can work with you to support you throughout your application
