Procurement Data Specialist

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Procurement Data Specialist

Full-Time

Derby/Hybrid (3 days a week on-site)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Procurement Data Specialist to join our newly formed team in Derby. You will be joining a team in the Indirect & Procurement Excellence organisation, driving excellence in our Procurement Systems and Data.

Your primary focus will be on delivering digital capability and utilising data to deliver value to our procurement teams and improve cost and efficiency in our supply chain. We are looking for someone who can manage a varied, complex, and busy workload and who can work both individually and as part of a team.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

The team will work with global buying teams across the business and will play a key part in our organisation. Recognising that digitalisation is a core part of Rolls-Royce’s strategy, the team is looking to change the way Rolls-Royce buys.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

This varied role will allow you to shape the future of procurement at our world class engineering and manufacturing organisation. This role would suit someone with a digital mindset, good analytical skills, a history of delivery and someone who can clearly communicate with stakeholders and deliver insights to our buying teams.

What we offer:

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.  As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

You will deliver new capability and use our existing systems and tools to create insights, you will:

• Develop and manage relationships across Procurement, IT, Engineering and the wider business.
• Resolve complex problems encountered by the buying teams and deliver solutions alongside IT for the teams to utilise.
• Deliver data-driven efficiency and process improvements.
• Proactively use data to find opportunities to deliver on the businesses cost savings targets.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. And for this role, we are looking for someone who is/has:

• Industry work experience in similar roles. A bachelor’s degree/equivalent – desirable.
• Ability to use a variety of analytics tools including MS Excel.
• Able to communicate complex data clearly.
• Ability to work with and across various teams.
• Business acumen and preferably knowledge of procurement practices.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

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