Procurement Business Partner in London

This is an exciting permanent opportunity for an experienced Procurement Business Partner to join the FSCS Procurement Team. The successful role holder will be leading, advising and coordinating Procurement Processes within a regulated environment, ensuring appropriate performance management alongside robust oversight and controls over the most strategically important and critical suppliers to FSCS.

Key Priorities

• Service Delivery
  • Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation and be recognised as a trusted business advisor.
  • Adhere and hold others accountable to adhere to Procurement policies, standards and procedures. Recognise and escalate non-compliance and other issues to the Procurement Manager where appropriate.
• Strategic Sourcing
  • Understand and influence stakeholders to deliver, maintain and improve strategic sourcing plans, using relevant management information and market intelligence.
  • Using category specific knowledge, provide commercial and procurement advice and sound judgement to identify issues and recommend appropriate solutions.
  • Implement collaborative sourcing solutions and drive through benefits realisation plans.
• Tender Management
  • Lead and execute the delivery of tender projects in an efficient, effective and timely manner. Identify when project approvals are required and plan for them. Identify and resolve project issues.
  • Develop a clear procurement approach that reflects the needs of the business, the market and is aligned to procurement policy objectives, public procurement regulatory requirements and plans for the necessary approvals. Challenge risk adverse behaviours where appropriate.
  • Fully consider key financial and commercial issues in the development of the contracting model and implement these as appropriate in contract terms and conditions.
• Supplier Relationship Management
  • Ensure that amendments to contracts are negotiated, agreed and documented effectively and adhere to the Procurement Policy. Challenge and resolve contractual non-compliance issues.
  • For key suppliers, work with the contract owner to ensure appropriate contract management processes are set up and supplier oversight is in place according to the standards set in the Procurement Handbook.
• Procurement Related Management Information
  • Ensure that accurate, complete and correct management information data are supplied and validated.
  • Support Procurement Manager in Risk and Controls Testing to provide evidence where requested.

Working at the FSCS

At FSCS we are purpose driven and committed to delivering an exceptional service and results for our customers. We have invested greatly in a flexible people offering that we are proud of, that our employees love and that supports and promotes diversity, inclusion, and overall wellbeing. Key benefits include:

• Employer pension contributions from 9% - 15% depending on your contributions and length of service.
• Life assurance, income and critical illness protection.
• Private medical and dental insurance.
• EAP and Virtual GP.
• 26 days annual leave + bank holidays and the option to sell 5 or buy up to 9 additional days per annum to suit your lifestyle.
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave – 6 months full pay.
• Additional discounts and options to earn rewards to spend at your choice of retailer.

About You

We have identified the following skills, knowledge, and experience as essential for success in this role; however, we understand that everyone's learning journey is different and there is no one size fits all. If you feel you have many of the below strengths but don’t tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you:

• MCIPS qualified or relevant equivalent supply-chain experience/qualification.
• Sound knowledge of Public Procurement Regulations and Public Contract Frameworks.
• Ability to lead the end-to-end procurement process.
• Good experience of successfully conducting a range of dialogues/negotiations across a variety of categories.
• Broad category expertise (focus on services rather than goods) across both the Public and/or Private Sector. It’s desirable if you have experience of IT procurement.
• In-depth experience of working across departmental or organisational boundaries in leading strategic sourcing teams/projects.
• Can use e-procurement tools to support the sourcing process.

About Us

For the past 21 years, FSCS has been getting customers of failed authorised financial services firms back on track. Our strength is in our numbers. Since 2001, we have helped 6.5 million customers and paid back £26 billion in compensation. Over the years we have continually strived to be better, faster, and more empathetic to our customers' needs in an ever more complex financial world. Our people have worked together to make sure we can offer protection and reassurance every step of the way, even during the toughest of times over the last two years. FSCS is an organisation that makes a difference, and in which our people truly make a difference.

We have grown from modest beginnings in 2001 to helping customers during historic events such as the 2008 banking crisis and supporting vulnerable customers during the pandemic. As a result of this success, FSCS has become increasingly respected, insightful, and influential in the regulatory ecosystem. It is an exciting time in our journey as we now have an opportunity to play a bigger role in breaking the cycle of rising consumer harm and costs; by being part of a system that is about prevention rather than cure.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or any other status protected by law.