Procurement Manager / Purchasing Manager

We have a great opportunity for a Procurement Excellence Manager - Functional Excellence role here at DS Smith. The role is responsible to drive and embed functional excellence, ensuring the day-to-day operational efficiency and effectiveness of the whole Procurement community. As the Procurement Excellence Manager - Functional, you will report to the Head of Procurement Excellence within the Group Procurement Function.

As the successful candidate you will be responsible for building and operating functional ways of working to ensure the efficient and effective day-to-day operation of the function, focusing on simplicity, quality and engagement across the whole Procurement community. You will collaborate with your procurement colleagues to: Drive process excellence: defining and leading initiatives to simplify, improve user experience and reduce non-value add activity, across the function Procurement Community and colleague engagement: foster an integrated business partner culture, valued across the function Evolve the maturity of Procurement practices in line with external benchmarks and functional needs. Drive towards clear, consistent and logical processes, tools, templates and policies which are easier to navigate Bring the best of the outside practices in: defining and driving the execution of a multi year improvement roadmap, endorsed by the Procurement leadership.

Developing strategies to enhance compliance and reduce risk, in alignment with group priorities, whilst make it easier to comply with controls, policies and standards Deliver and coordinate the Procurement Governance plan and process Drive initiatives to simplify, improve colleague experience and reduce non-value add activity across the Procurement community For functional process areas, develop and define a 1-3 year functional maturity roadmap in partnership with the business and procurement leaders. Enlist support, innovation and commitment from across the Procurement community. In collaboration with the Technology function, support the definition of key requirements and the successful deployment of digital solutions for procurement teams and business stakeholders.

Accountability to ensure that core process requirements are effectively digitised (per aligned Digital Roadmap), with support from Technology and Programme Delivery teams. Drive and maintain colleague engagement, including through the timely creation and distribution of Procurement Leadership summaries and updates Maintain all Procurement Community channel(s) e.g. SharePoint Procurement Programme Delivery and Performance Management Design, build and deliver a fit for purpose Procurement Performance environment e.g.

Procurement delivery pipeline governance, challenger sessions and schedules Develop new performance reporting / scorecards - in partnership with Finance and the Procurement Services Hub Procurement Learning and Development Build and deliver new digital learning tools and platforms for Procurement, in line with the 3-year plan Develop required Procurement e-learning and training modules materials Functional Risk Management & Controls Partner with stakeholders to enhance functional compliance and reduce risk, whilst make it easier to comply with controls, policies and standards Manage functional risk and governance practices, including the delivery of regular functional education sessions across procurement teams to enhance awareness and understanding of requirements and standards Project Management, Continuous Improvement (eg Lean, 6 Sigma), Change Management. Procurement / Purchasing background ideal Bachelor's Degree Preferred Graduate or equivalent qualification and member of professional body, e.g., We are DS Smith, together with International Paper, we are a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions and other fibre-based products.We employ more than 60,000 colleagues in North America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), who are experts in innovation,manufacturing, design, sales, sustainability, supply chain, and much more. Together with our customers, we make the world safer and more productive, one sustainable packaging solution at a time.

To fulfil our purpose of redefining packaging for a changing world, we aim to build a diverse, motivated, and engaged workforce. Our goal is to create a culture of inclusion where everyone is treated fairly, differences are valued, and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.