The NDA Group has a vacancy for a Head of Group Procurement and Supply Chain to join their busy team, hybrid working from one of their offices in Cumbria, Warrington, Harwell or London.
To give a sense of the scope and impact of this role, we spend around £1.9 billion each year, have 5,000 suppliers and 17 sites – ranging from the very first nuclear power stations, research centers, fuel-related facilities through to Sellafield, with its complex facilities to decommission.
As Head of Group Procurement and Supply Chain, you’ll be accountable for leading and transforming our procurement and supply chain function to ensure we achieve our goal of decommissioning UK’s oldest nuclear sites safely. This means purchasing all the highly specialist goods and services we need to achieve this, from major construction and decommissioning infrastructure, such as nuclear waste processing plants, through to supplies to run our business, such as materials and equipment.
Having great commercial acumen and expertise is a given. As critical is building a team of high-performing commercial professionals and influencing best practice commercial practices across the 11 operating companies in the NDA Group.
You’ll also be a key member of the NDA Commercial Senior Leadership Team, working collaboratively to achieve our overall commercial strategy and goals.
- Build and lead a proactive and expert commercial team (35 people, mainly in Warrington and Cumbria) to achieve procurement and supply chain goals and add demonstrable value across the Group by recruiting, developing, and supporting people with the necessary strengths and capability.
- Establish and communicate the pipeline for all Group procurement activity to enable effective delivery and value for money. Ensuring clarity of future plans, timely completion of assurance and approval processes, regulatory compliance, appropriate competition will all be part of the role.
- Establish appropriate mechanisms to ensure category strategies are developed and implemented for all third-party spend for the Group.
- Oversee procurement activities performed by the NDA category teams, including collaborative activities across the whole NDA group, to optimise quality and value of goods and services purchased.
- Review major procurement programmes across the NDA Group to ensure compliance with commercial policies and regulatory requirements and to identify and mitigate risks.
- Build trusted and collaborative working relationships with stakeholders across the NDA Group including relevant C-Suite members, Commercial Directors and procurement leaders to achieve greater value. This will include identifying and leading continuous improvement in standards, best practice adoption and inspiring and motivating the broader commercial team to deliver best-in-class service.
- Maximise the value derived from the NDA supply chain through excellent practice and strong leadership.
- Work with industry to develop innovative ways to resolve decommissioning challenges to enable the UK to be a leader in this global challenge.
- Develop the next generation of commercial experts to manage the multi-decade challenge that decommissioning gives.
- You’re a big picture thinker, able to connect the dots across complex landscapes, so you see the implications of everything you do over the long term.
- You enjoy developing people, empowering and supporting them to achieve stretch goals.
- You’re curious and good at understanding your stakeholders’ needs and motivators so you can best help them.
- You’re someone who quickly spots risks and what’s not working, priorities and is energetic in fixing the important things, with or through others.
- You’re excellent at connecting with others and building trusted relationships quickly.
- You love to collaborate with others to achieve the right outcomes.
- You’re adept at working in the grey or with a blank sheet of paper to figure out the way forward.
Your behaviours
Role-modelling the appropriate leadership behaviours is important in this role. We’ll be looking for candidates to demonstrate the following NDA Leadership Standard behaviours during our selection process:
- Enabling others: Strengthen relationships across the Group commercial community. Foster an environment for collaboration, support, and efficiency gains.
- Value Diversity: Champions inclusion, ensuring that inclusion is embedded across the Commercial Function. Champions honesty and integrity with the highest ethical standards.
- Open to change: Address resistance effectively and empathetically. Handles debates with skill.
