Process Manager - Procurement UK
// Role Summary
Join MBDA as a UK Process Manager, optimizing procurement operations through process improvement, automation, and robust governance to drive efficiency and excellence. This role offers dynamic hybrid working and significant career development opportunities.
// Key Responsibilities
- Optimize UK Procurement processes for efficiency and simplification.
- Identify and implement digital automation solutions.
- Collaborate with Group Procurement Excellence and manage internal audits.
- Develop and deliver communication and training plans for change management.
- Influence stakeholders across the UK and Europe to drive process improvements.
// Role Specification
About the Role
In an industry where precision is non-negotiable, the efficiency of our Procurement processes is the backbone of our success. We are seeking a Procurement UK Process Manager to join our organisation during a period of exciting evolution. Following a recent company re-organisation, MBDA's UK Procurement Directorate has introduced a Governance and Performance' team to support the function's drive to deliver excellence to our customers by ensuring robust governance, performance management and compliance across all of our Procurement activities.
Your Mission
- Ensure UK Procurement processes align to meet business requirements.
- Identify and manage UK process improvement with a view to driving simplification, harmonisation and increasing the efficiency of the processes.
- Identify process areas that can be automated with digital solutions in coordination with the Digital Improvement function.
- Collaborate with and influence the Group Process Procurement Excellence team to ensure processes support UK needs.
- Guide the preparation of internal and external audits and manage improvement actions with stakeholders.
- Undertake UK internal Procurement audits to ensure the teams are following process.
- Develop a communication plan and deliver associated training to guide people to change and to illustrate the added value of the improvements introduced.
- Participate in process reviews and present project progress to senior management.
What we're looking for
We are looking for a proactive "fixer" – someone who combines analytical rigor with the emotional intelligence to manage and influence change in a complex organisation across multiple stakeholders in the UK and Europe.