Senior Manager - Powered Procurement in Birmingham

We are seeking a talented individual with experience of Procurement implementations and detailed working knowledge of Source to Pay software including one or more of the following: Coupa, Ivalua, Oracle, GEP, ZIP, ORO or ServiceNow. While predominantly focusing on ensuring successful delivery of our programmes you will play an important role in several key areas, including:

• Procurement Solution Architectures – driving business strategy that meets the relevant client business, technology and regulatory requirements.
• Delivery Excellence – achievement of high-quality outcomes in the delivery of products or services to our clients.
• Practice Development – Ensuring that the team continues to deliver value to our clients through understanding leading practice developments, potential disruptors to the market in the shape of new technologies (including Agentic AI, intake and orchestration) and helping to ensure the team are sufficiently equipped to support our clients.
• Sales Support – Providing your experience and knowledge into the sales cycle ensuring our clients are set up for success.

Providing expert consultancy to assist clients in defining their overall technology strategy, designs and delivery programmes whilst effectively managing the commercial impacts. Architecting solutions including integration middleware, database & data warehouse, front-end technology & framework, infrastructure considerations. Translating business and technical requirements into coherent, consistent and complete architecture designs. Delivering technology strategy, roadmaps and delivery blueprints for the technology design. Whole-stack reference models and architectures across application, data and technical domains, divisional/group specialists, as appropriate. Defining Baseline and Target states alongside the migration steps from one to the other. Run workshops relevant to your work stream or project goals, provide advice on set up and options. Supporting clients with their Infrastructure and provisioning strategies. Evaluating architecture options and making recommendations in the light of technical, delivery and commercial factors. Provide functional expertise to clients for the elements owned during the implementation. Proactively supporting the sales teams to provide expertise in bids to help clients to get more out of their existing Digital channels identifying the best of breed technologies and services based on client needs, constraints and strategies. Presenting and communicating with confidence to stakeholders up to C-Suite level and supporting them in setting their strategic objectives.

A track record of client delivery, innovation and transformation using Cloud solutions, at large FTSE/blue chip organisations.

Quality

Responsibility for ensuring that each of the technical elements within each project phase is delivered on time and to a standard (inc. Functional Design, Technical build, UAT Testing, SIT Testing, Training, Move-to–Production inc. Cutover). A track record of working with onshore, offshore and 3rd party teams to source relevant expertise to deliver solutions. Manages scope and delivers timely and quality deliverables. Communicates risk and issues early to Leaders as appropriate. Leads creating innovative and repeatable solutions which strengthen business performance and differentiate KPMG from our competition. Executes projects to a level that meet members firm’s Quality standards within a commercial context. Holds review(s) on completion of projects to identify lessons learned and enhance future quality and commercial planning. Contributes to the internal Quality Assurance review process which ensures that the solutions and recommendations provided to our clients is in line with leading practice. Keeping up to date with market trends within the Procurement Technology space to ensure that you can support our clients in addressing their needs.

People

Identifies development needs of team and provides coaching, mentoring and stretch assignments to attract, develop and retain our most talented colleagues. Plans and seeks opportunities to allocate team members responsibilities that will enable them to learn new skills that align to their goals. Meets deadlines throughout the Performance cycle both for personal development and appraisees ensuring quality feedback is requested, goals are set and monitored, providing feedback on engagement reviews. Effectively supports and manages underperformance, in line with guidance and policies. Takes action to ensure wellbeing matters are properly handled and resolved by demonstrating empathy and awareness of team. Ensures team accurately charge time to Engagement codes to see true value of work delivered and to recognize individual/team effort. Actively shares knowledge with other KPMG colleagues/teams and contributes to the development of knowledge resources. Manages onboarding of new starters, including buddy responsibilities.

Public trust

Ensures team complete all mandatory and regulatory training required by member firm by the due date. Does not undertake work that does not fit with firm capabilities or Risk Management criteria. Undertakes the appropriate training and coaching in line with member firm requirements. Pro-actively takes action to avoid Personal Independence breaches. Takes action and speaks up if they observe and/or are made aware of conduct that is inconsistent with KPMG’s values and ethical standards.