Senior Manager - Powered Procurement

Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester

Experience Level: Senior Manager

Type: Full Time

Business Area: Powered Enterprise

Contract type: Permanent

We are seeking a talented individual with experience of Procurement implementations and detailed working knowledge of Source to Pay software including one or more of the following;
Coupa, Ivalua, Oracle, GEP, ZIP, ORO or Service Now. While predominantly focusing on ensuring successful delivery of our programmes you will play an important role in several key areas, including:

• Procurement Solution Architectures – driving business strategy that meets the relevant client business, technology and regulatory requirements
• Delivery Excellence – achievement of high-quality outcomes in the delivery of products or services to our clients.
• Practice Development – ensuring that the team continues to deliver value to our clients through understanding leading practice developments, potential disruptors to the market in the shape of new technologies (including Agentic AI, intake and orchestration) and helping to ensure the team are sufficiently equipped to support our clients
• Sales Support – providing your experience and knowledge into the sales cycle ensuring our clients are set up for success

• Providing expert consultancy to assist clients in defining their overall technology strategy, designs and delivery programmes whilst effectively managing the commercial impacts
• Architecting solutions including integration middleware, database & data warehouse, front-end technology & framework, infrastructure considerations.
• Translating business and technical requirements into coherent, consistent and complete architecture designs
• Delivering technology strategy, roadmaps and delivery blueprints for the technology design
• Whole‑stack reference models and architectures across application, data and technical domains, divisional/group specialists, as appropriate.
• Defining Baseline and Target states alongside the migration steps from one to the other
• Run workshops relevant to your work stream or project goals, provide advice on set up and options
• Supporting clients with their Infrastructure and provisioning strategies
• Evaluating architecture options and making recommendations in the light of technical, delivery and commercial factors
• Providing functional expertise to clients for the elements owned during the implementation
• Proactively supporting the sales teams to provide expertise in bids to help clients to get more out of their existing Digital channels, identifying the best of breed technologies and services based on client needs, constraints and strategies
• Presenting and communicating with confidence to stakeholders up to C‑Suite level and supporting them in setting their strategic direction
• A track record of client delivery, innovation and transformation using Cloud solutions, at large FTSE/blue‑chip organisations

• Responsibility for ensuring that each of the technical elements within each project phase is delivered on time and to a standard (inc. Functional Design, Technical build, UAT Testing, SIT Testing, Training, Move‑to‑Production inc. Cutover)
• A track record of working with onshore, offshore and 3rd party teams to source relevant expertise to deliver solutions
• Managing scope and delivering timely and quality deliverables
• Communicating risk and issues early to Leaders as appropriate
• Leading the creation of innovative and repeatable solutions which strengthen business performance and differentiate KPMG from our competition
• Executing projects to meet the firm’s Quality standards within a commercial context
• Holding review(s) on completion of projects to identify lessons learned and enhance future quality and commercial planning
• Contributing to the internal Quality Assurance review process which ensures that the solutions and recommendations provided to our clients are in line with leading practice
• Keeping up to date with market trends within the Procurement Technology space to ensure that you can support our clients in addressing their needs

• Identifying development needs of…