At a Glance
- Tasks: Shape Procurement operations and ensure efficient delivery across Intact UK.
- Company: Join a leading financial services company with a commitment to innovation and inclusivity.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid working, generous leave, health perks, and career development opportunities.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse culture that values individuality and empowers all employees.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by driving procurement excellence and embracing cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in procurement operations and strong stakeholder engagement skills required.
The predicted salary is between 59576 - 68231 £ per year.
In your role, you will shape how Procurement operates across Intact UK by enabling consistent, compliant and efficient delivery. You will provide the structure and insight that allows teams to focus on strategic value, supplier outcomes and risk management, while delivering a high quality experience for the business.
You’ll make an impact by:
- Acting as the design authority for Procurement ways of working, setting governance and direction for the delivery model, and ensuring policies and frameworks are clear, proportionate and consistently adopted across Category, Sourcing and Buying.
- Establishing demand orchestration and operating rhythm, setting the approach to intake, triage and prioritisation, routing demand effectively, and providing oversight of volumes, throughput and constraints.
- Leading Buying Enablement and overseeing transactional execution, govern procure to pay processes, approved buying channels and supplier onboarding, while maintaining separation between buying and sourcing activity.
- Owning procurement systems, data and reporting, ensuring tools support policy adherence and efficient execution, and delivering high quality insight for decision making.
- Setting direction for automation and AI, ensuring solutions align to governance and risk controls, while driving benefits realisation, best practice adoption and continuous improvement across Procurement.
Your skills and experience:
- Experience in procurement, procurement operations or transformation within financial services or similarly regulated environments, with an excellent understanding of operating within a controlled environment.
- Proven capability in designing and governing procurement policies, frameworks and operating models that support consistency, compliance and efficiency.
- Background in leading procurement enablement, buying or procure to pay functions, including oversight of shared service or transactional delivery teams.
- Considerable knowledge of procurement systems, data, reporting and automation, with the ability to translate these into effective and controlled delivery.
- Experience setting direction for AI or digital enablement in a way that balances innovation with governance and risk management.
- A governance and risk mindset, combined with the ability to balance control, efficiency and usability in day to day delivery.
- Considerable stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with experience influencing at senior levels and supporting organisational change.
Why You’ll Love It Here:
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Up to 11% pension contributions
- Hybrid working + flexible hours
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell options
- Health & wellbeing + virtual GP
- Career development and mentoring
- Inclusive culture + employee networks
- Share investment options
Our DEI Commitment: We celebrate individuality and believe our differences make us stronger. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to thrive. As an Equal Opportunity and Disability Confident Employer, we ensure fair consideration for all applicants and offer interviews to all disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria.
Procurement - Centre of Excellence Manager in Chelmsford employer: Intact Insurance (previously RSA)
At Intact UK, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment that champions innovation and inclusivity. With a strong focus on employee growth through career development and mentoring, our hybrid working model and generous benefits package, including up to 11% pension contributions and a discretionary annual bonus, ensure that our team members feel valued and empowered. Join us in shaping the future of Procurement while enjoying a culture that celebrates individuality and fosters collaboration.
Contact Details:
Intact Insurance (previously RSA) Recruitment Team
