Senior Manager - Procurement Operations

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat might be the place for you. We're a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.

Whether it's a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

The Senior Manager - Procurement Operations will play a strategic role in driving best-in-class procurement practises across the organisation, contributing to our profit drivers of cost consciousness, supplier management, sustainability enhancement, risk mitigation and internal service orientation.

The role requires a deep understanding of procurement processes and systems, communication and people management skills to ensure our operational excellence. Working closely with the Procurement & Supply Chain Director for policy and practice, the procurement team and cross-functionally, such as with finance, legal, DPO, InfoSec and supply chain, you will help the procurement team ensure JET's procurement strategies align with our company goals and growth ambitions.

Assisted by a team of analysts, you will create a high performance culture within procurement, with a continuous improvement mindset. Technology will play a big part in efficiency and effectiveness, but our people are also important and at the heart of our operations. Procurement Innovation is a key component of positioning us as a leading function internally and with peers. AI should enable more data driven decisions within our team and actionable insight provided as part of our reliable, relevant and timely business reporting.

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Own and manage Source to Contract policies, processes and systems. Create future systems strategies and medium to long term roadmaps to evolve our process and systems architecture
• Develop and execute continuous improvement initiatives to streamline procurement processes, reduce cycle times, and optimise workflows
• Increase overall engagement and value generation through the Procurement process (including system adoption and process adherence) with education, simplification and automation
• Drive the creation of a cost conscious culture, with compliance at its core
• Create, implement and maintain Procurement master data standard and strategy
• Monitor, maintain and improve Procurement data quality, including spend, savings and supplier master data, and the storage and management of Procurement documentation
• Leverage advanced analytics and business intelligence tools to inform strategic decision making and support cross functional reporting.
• Create and execute a comprehensive plan for both internal (JET) and external (supplier) facing communications
• Ensuring Procurement processes and systems run smoothly, are widely communicated, understood and applied, with relevant documentation (such as Spend Analytics, Purchase Orders and 7-Step Strategic Procurement, including supplier selection, contracting and onboarding)

What will you bring to the team?

• Proven senior experience in procurement, supply chain, or operational excellence roles, with proven experience in routine procurement operations management and change management
• Management of others in a team
• Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Analytic and problem solving skills
• Experience managing and delivering projects, with strong organisational and time management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to think critically and strategically, identifying long term opportunities for improvement and quick fixes
• Able to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment, managing multiple priorities simultaneously

Desirable but not essential

• Previous experience of Workday Finance and Workday Strategic Sourcing, Zip,Looker).
• Experience using Google Workspace
• AI within procurement systems, dedicated or embedded

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Being the best at what we do isn't just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable - our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers' loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we're building a customer first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat We're committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

What else are we delivering?

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Are you ready to join the team? Apply now!