What's involved with this role: QAD 1748/1804 Role: Principal Process & Performance Manager – Supply Chain Contract Length: Anticipated 12 months Location: Reading – up to 2 days per week onsite Pay Rate: Competitive Market Rate As Principal Process and Performance Manager, your primary focus is on motivating, developing, and managing a specialised team while taking ownership of contractual governance within the supply chain sub-function. You will nurture a collaborative and supportive team culture, providing guidance on contract law and negotiation expertise to secure favourable terms and conditions. You will drive efficiency, compliance, and strategic value expertise. Key accountabilities: Coach and mentor Supply Chain sub function on the organisation’s expectations for effective control of risk and compliance ensuring that the Supply Chain sub function are informed of changes to legislation and regulations. Establish Supply Chain governance and reporting for the risk and compliance agenda, ensuring there is clear accountability for who is managing the risks; leadership understand and fulfil applicable risk reporting requirements, and ensure risk and compliance issues are escalated to an appropriate Risk Management and Compliance governance group Lead and support internal and external audit activities, establishing scope, providing material for review by auditors, attending audit reviews, agreeing and closing out actions Use Spend Analytics to provide actionable insights that support and shape the future demand of the business through its budgeting and decision-making processes Define the processes, tools and methods for collating and managing spend data, ensuring it is cleansed and categorised accurately for spend analysis Translate datasets and analysis into actionable and easy-to-understand insights and recommendations Enable accurate and confident decision-making in the procurement process Market intelligence providing industry and supply market intelligence research and analysis relevant to the company’s supplier markets to Supply Chain team and the wider business Design and deliver best practice reporting of long and short run procurement activity improvement initiatives aimed at improving data visibility and accessibility that are high quality, timely, accurate, exception-based management information Work alongside category management and business cost analyst teams to define standard metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that ensure high quality Management Information (MI)/Business Information (BI) reporting tools are delivered. Key experience & skills: Procurement supply chain experience Process implementation Standardising supply chain process Continuous improvement PCR 2015 Writing Process guides Providing standard and bespoke business reports for functional performance metrics and reviews Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Security Clearance: SC highly desirable; candidates with active SC clearance will be fast-tracked. Please send your CV directly to centralgovtclrec.com If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will be put forward for the ‘Guaranteed Interview’ scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of the Sourcing team. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the equivalent PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information. Please send us your CV in Word format rather than PDF and avoid the use of columns and tables as this will help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client. Please ensure that your CV addresses the following items: Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this. Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice. Qualifications and experience relevant to the job role – please give full details within your CV document As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we provide the best talent and encourage all applications regardless of background, in line with our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion. Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please