In this highly collaborative and hands‑on role, you will lead supplier onboarding end‑to‑end, maintain robust data standards, ensure consistent and standardised data across purchase orders, contracts, and supplier records, and champion continuous improvement across procurement systems and processes, maintaining best‑practice and policy compliance. Working centrally to Procurement team, you will provide expert support, influence stakeholders, and help optimise workflows and supplier performance. The ideal candidate will be analytical, process‑driven, and confident using ERP systems (IFS preferred) alongside BI and dashboarding & KPI’s and tools to translate complex data into clear insights. Strong relationship management is essential, with an ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, resolve challenges, and support purchasing and operational teams in delivering value.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the procurement lead for IFS – Super User, maintaining categorisation, workflows, and reporting, as well as onboarding processes and optimisation of procurement systems.
- Develop and maintain procurement dashboards, reporting methods, automated and analytics.
- Lead continuous improvements in system functionality, data structures, SRM, Supplier Master Records and process automation.
- Troubleshoot system issues and coordinate with business IFS System Owner.
- Ensure consistent and standardised PO, contract, and vendor data structures.
- Produce weekly, monthly, and quarterly procurement performance reports.
- Maintain the procurement contract register.
- Deliver insights to support category, supplier negotiations, and decisions.
- Deliver ad‑hoc analysis to support vessels, subsea operations, and projects.
- Maintain and update procurement procedures, policies, and guidance documents.
- Support audits, compliance checks, and process adherence monitoring.
- Act as the central point of expertise for procurement systems and reporting.
- Support x2 Procurement Transactional Officers with expediting, PO raising, OTIF measurement, and system queries.
- Collaborate with Direct Buyers to provide data insights.
- Partner with Strategic Category Manager on analytics and performance monitoring.
- Lead and manage key supplier categories across indirect spend.
- Apply strong procurement expertise to drive value, ensure compliance and optimise supplier performance.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
- Experience in procurement, supply chain, analytics, or systems administration.
- Excel/data analysis capability; Power BI preferred.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly.
- Experience in marine, subsea, engineering, or project industries.
- Knowledge of procurement best practices.
Ideal
- A fully maintained contract register.
- Standardised processes consistently applied.
- Improved system utilisation and optimised workflows.
Location
This role is based in the Chelmsford office and follows a hybrid working arrangement, working 3 days in the office, Tuesday to Thursday, and 2 days working remotely, Monday and Friday.
Recruitment and Legal Information
The Global Marine Group are committed to making our recruitment process accessible and inclusive for everyone. If you require reasonable adjustments for your interview, please reach out during your recruitment process. We are more than happy to accommodate your needs to ensure you have the best possible experience during the selection process.
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