About the role

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. Simplify: 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...