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Location: Trowbridge

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Are you a CIPS qualified senior procurement professional with experience of leading a team to deliver on procurement strategies? Does your experience lie within the automotive/vehicle leasing industry? Are you excited by the opportunity of working for a leading, award winning vehicle leasing company with a focus on decarbonisation goals?

If your answer is 'yes' to all of these, keep reading.

Want to know a little about us?

At Novuna Vehicle Solutions, we're passionate about building a better tomorrow. Which is why we're lighting the way in the electric vehicle revolution. From family cars to HGVs, we're helping customers of all kinds on their journey to carbon-free mobility.

We're proud to be a Top 50 Inclusive employer. We're a signatory of the Women in Finance and the Race at Work Charter and we're Disability Confident Committed.

What does the role involve?

Reporting into our Head of Finance and working closely with our Head of Supplier Relationship Management you'll lead our procurement team to ensure we deliver a professional, operational and strategic procurement service that delivers cost saving initiatives, optimises value add opportunities, and through service delivery, achieves a best in class experience for our customers.

Some of your key duties will include:

Proactively manage sourcing, contracting and compliance for all direct goods and service provisions, in accordance with Procurement Governance
Responsibility for the procurement data (inc. contracts) repository, and the analysis and procurement-related MI that monitors performance and risk, and provides market insights
Maximizing value added opportunities within the portfolio, ensuring market leading SLA's and KPI's are in place, with highly competitive costs and terms with suppliers that align to our values
People management and leadership of your team to optimise performance and deliver development opportunities

We adopt a hybrid approach to our ways of working which for this role will see you based from our modern office in Trowbridge (Wiltshire) a minimum of 2 days per week.

What are we looking for?

To be considered for this role you'll be qualified to a minimum of CIPS Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Procurement & Supply with proven experience of leading a procurement function to deliver strategic goals. Your industry experience will ideally lie within automotive/vehicle leasing and you'll be a motivational people leader with the ability to inspire your team to achieve success and provide them with opportunities to develop their skills and experience.

Also, we're looking for the following:

Demonstrable experience of delivering cost saving initiatives using innovative solutions
The ability to collaborate and influence senior stakeholders, both internally and externally
An effective commercial decision maker
Membership of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (MCIPS) would be desirable

What can we offer you?

At Novuna we take our people promise seriously. If you join us, you'll have a chance to make a difference, opportunities to learn, and time to shine.

In addition to a market-benchmarked salary our offer to you includes:

An annual bonus of up to 25% of your salary
A brand new electric car of your choice from a range of leading manufacturers (Insurance, maintenance, servicing all included) or monthly cash alternative
Up to 10% employer pension contribution
Flexible hybrid working
25 days' holiday, plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell 5 days
Full wellbeing package including Bupa PMI, digital GP service, 24/7 employee assistance, plus wellbeing events throughout the year

What's the next step?

Interested? Start your application today and see what Novuna can offer you.

Novuna has been named one of the top 50 most inclusive employers for the fourth year running and this is also reflected in our recruitment process. We are committed to ensuring our application process is inclusive and accessible to all candidates.

We're Disability Confident Committed, so if you're a person with a disability, if you're neurodivergent, or if you have a condition that you believe may affect your performance during our selection process, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes for you.

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