Procurement Business Partner

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Procurement Business Partner

Apply locations Dublin time type Full time posted on Posted 13 Days Ago job requisition id R0052790 Procurement Business Partner R0052790 Procurement – Dublin Permanent Reporting to: Director of Retail Procurement Bord Gáis Energy generates, sells and trades energy for use in the Republic of Ireland. We’ve been in operation since 1976 and today we supply over 750,000 customers with energy in Ireland. In 2014 we became part of Centrica plc. We are a progressive company with a reputation for experience and expertise in the energy market, and are committed to ensuring that all of our activity is aimed at benefiting and serving our customers. The Procurement Manager of Business Partnering (PMBP) plays a key role in representing Procurement within Bord Gáis Energy and Bord Gáis Energy within group procurement. They ensure active engagement in group procurement category strategies, ensuring they are created jointly with the business and meet with the specific needs of Bord Gáis Energy. This role integrates deeply with Bord Gáis Energy's Business and Functional leaders to represent the Procurement Director in day-to-day dealings. They ensure active involvement of the Procurement Director and relevant colleagues in Bord Gáis Energy's business reviews and escalations. Proactively collaborating with procurement colleagues, the Business Partner ensures a thorough understanding of Bord Gáis Energy's needs. They lead interactions with Bord Gáis Energy's business and functional leaders to develop, agree upon, and adhere to a 12-month, 3-year, and 5-year joint Procurement and Bord Gáis Energy Business plan. The role demands exceptional relational skills, commerciality, and business acumen to enhance business agility and responsiveness to key priorities. About the Role

• Creating and supporting deep partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with selected senior managers of the supported function
• Facilitating alignment with other business partners to gain a clear understanding of short-, medium- and long-term priorities of the supported function
• Acting as a strategic advisor to the business to ensure that the Procurement Function is focussing effort on key objectives supporting business strategy
• Improving the impact and understanding of procurement activities on business performance
• Ensuring that business priorities are fed back within procurement communities
• Bringing new ideas to the business to allow cost reduction, capture innovation, reduce risk, or ensure compliance
• Challenge business needs to ensure requirements are suitably specified and sourced from the appropriate supplier

• Collaborate in conjunction with business and functional leadership to agree appropriate targets and measures within the FOD (functional offer document)
• Ensure all agreed procurement deliverables are integrated into business planning
• Accountable for implementing performance measures between procurement and business
• Engagement with business stakeholders to ensure future business requirements are detailed and signed off
• Ensure business requirements are clearly specified and challenged
• Accountable for ensuring complete alignment of savings to P&L and regular cadence with identified BU/Functional CFO and back into Procurement
• Accountable for presentation of effective procurement management information and reporting to business stakeholders
• Ensure Category management is fully aligned to business strategy with full visibility of business needs pipeline
• Collaborative Value management - Instigate and facilitate collaborative cross business partnership discussions to unlock collaborative value delivery
• Ensuring that stakeholders understand the procurement proposition and engaging with other business partners to align efforts to best support strategic goals of Centrica
• Analysis of overall business needs to category teams to bring innovative market solutions
• Be an essential part of performance reporting of the business

• Together with the business unit/functional leadership team, develop the commercial strategy and identify and agree what the resource demand is and build the Centrica sourcing plan
• Ensure that the Category Management teams are aligned with the BU/functional strategies so that functional demands can be fully understood and supported
• Jointly own the fiscal delivery of the annual operating plan
• Readjust Procurement strategies and demands to respond to changing business needs
• Encourage and ensure all members of procurement are adhering to the procurement ways of working

About You

• Excellent knowledge of the Republic of Ireland market dynamics in the energy generation, energy supply and Home Services sectors
• Strong procurement background, across both Indirect and Direct procurement categories
• Excellent relationships skills with the ability to interact and appropriately challenge and collaborate with C suite leaders
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to motivate and manage a team to deliver against the agreed goals
• Ability to communicate effectively with leaders and stakeholders of all levels
• Ability to challenge the business and internal stakeholders
• Good understanding of the end-to-end Source to Pay process to understand when and how to best introduce other procurement teams and functions
• A strong networker with the ability to build productive relationships across all areas of the group and collaborate with colleagues to build solutions which work for them and the organisation as a whole
• Proven ability to deliver committed targets to senior stakeholders
• Be able to manage and lead in a matrix structure, ensuring clear accountability with in-country leads and global categories
• Ability to prioritise, manage complexity effectively and provide clear leadership

Bord Gáis Energy are committed to placing equality, diversity, care and respect at the heart of our policies and everyday practices. We encourage everyone to take part in our active employee networks, including the Women's network, Neurodiversity network, Carer's network, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage) network, and BRÓD, our LGBTQ+ network. We're proud of the work our networks and allies do to help us promote a culture of inclusion, empowering our colleagues to be themselves and do their best work. Our vision is to employ a diverse mix of people who reflect the societies we work in and the customers we serve, so we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our Flexible First working model empowers our people to find a better balance between home and office working. You can enjoy the convenience of working from home combined with time spent onsite in a way that works for you, our customers, and our business. Our office is used as a place to connect and collaborate with colleagues, rather than your default place of work each day. Here in Bord Gáis Energy we’re helping to create a more sustainable and inclusive future that supports our communities, our planet – and each other. The prevention of family homelessness in Ireland is an area where we believe we can make a real difference and through our partnership with Focus Ireland, we have been working on making this a reality since 2015. We encourage all colleagues to get involved in the partnership, with everyone receiving 2 days' volunteering leave to participate in initiatives or events supporting Focus Ireland. Our Values care | delivery | collaboration | agility | courage The closing date for applications is 5 January 2024. PLEASE APPLY ONLINE by hitting the ' Apply ' button. Applications will ONLY be accepted via the ‘Apply’ button. This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.

Who we are

As an international energy, services and solutions company, our focus is on satisfying the changing needs and demands of our customers in an evolving energy market. We have a wide range of roles across the business - if you’re passionate about driving change, making our customer's lives and experiences better, then we may have a role for you.

Values and Culture

Our Values are our core, we live and breathe them every day – they are the Heart of Centrica We developed our Values through conversations with our colleagues across the Centrica family - Care , Delivery , Collaboration , Agility and Courage is what it means to be Centrica. By living our values every day, we will be better able to fulfil our purpose and satisfy the changing needs of our customers. Every great brand stands for something here at Centrica, we exist to make our customers lives better today as well as build a better tomorrow. To achieve this, we ensure we are ready to be at our best, ready to shape the future, and ready to be ourselves and belong.

Diversity and Inclusion

Our people are who they are and the best person for the job is that person. Our diversity groups are great at helping us increase awareness and understanding of how to continue to develop an inclusive environment for all, as well as connecting those with common interests, common passions and a sense of belonging. We know we are all at our best when we feel comfortable and included. We want our people to feel like they can be who they want to be at work, and we work hard to provide them with the respect and flexibility to do so, to allow them to strive in their careers by bringing their whole self to work. We want our people to reflect the societies in which we work and the customers we serve. Employing such a diverse range of talent helps us to think and act differently and support our customers in the best ways possible. Key focus areas - gender, ethnicity, disability and mental health, LGBT+. Through a range of initiatives and strategies we work hard to ensure Centrica group is inclusive for everyone. #J-18808-Ljbffr