Procurement Manager

Excited by the prospect of joining a leading, award winning vehicle leasing and fleet management company with a focus on achieving decarbonisation goals?

If your answer is ‘yes’ keep reading.

Want to know a little about us?

At Novuna Vehicle Solutions, we’re passionate about building a better tomorrow. Which is why we’re lighting the way in the electric vehicle revolution. From family cars to HGVs, we’re helping customers of all kinds on their journey to carbon-free mobility.

We’re proud to be a Top 50 Inclusive employer. We’re a signatory of the Women in Finance and the Race at Work Charter and we’re Disability Confident Committed.

What does the role involve?

Reporting into our Senior Procurement Manager you’ll work as part of a professional procurement function to ensure that direct services purchased by Novuna Vehicle Solutions are managed throughout the procurement lifecycle. You’ll be planning and executing tender frameworks, ensuring that we mitigate risk, provide cost efficiency, explore innovative solutions and work with suppliers that deliver excellent outcomes for our customers.

Some Of Your Key Duties Will Include

• Conducting market research to identify marketing leading propositions and cost efficient solutions
• Supporting the evaluation of tender submissions, providing detailed business case outcomes with adherence to corporate governance
• Conduct commercial supplier negotiations for new and existing contracts
• Ensuring our processes and procedures, documentation, controls and BCP’s meet corporate governance requirements

We adopt a hybrid approach to our ways of working which for this role will see you based from our modern office in Trowbridge (Wiltshire) a minimum of 2 days per week.

What are we looking for?

To be considered for this role you’ll have proven experience within a procurement environment and be able to demonstrate successful planning and execution of tender frameworks. You’ll be comfortable negotiating, writing and managing supplier contracts and have knowledge of legislative requirements and statutory obligations. This position has one direct report so experience of people management is a requirement of the role.

Also, We’re Looking For The Following

• The ability to manage stakeholders across a variety of levels, both internally and externally
• Continuous professional development evidenced by CIPS qualifications or similar
• Automotive industry experience is highly desirable

What can we offer you?

At Novuna we take our people promise seriously. If you join us, you’ll have a chance to make a difference, opportunities to learn, and time to shine.

In addition to a market-benchmarked salary our offer to you includes:

• An annual bonus of up to 20% of your salary
• A brand new electric car of your choice from a range of leading manufactures (Insurance, maintenance, servicing all included) or monthly cash alternative
• Up to 10% employer pension contribution
• Flexible hybrid working
• 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell 5 days
• Full wellbeing package including Bupa PMI, digital GP service, 24/7 employee assistance, plus wellbeing events throughout the year

What’s the next step?

Interested? Start your application today and see what Novuna can offer you.

Novuna has been named one of the top 50 most inclusive employers for the fourth year running and this is also reflected in our recruitment process. We are committed to ensuring our application process is inclusive and accessible to all candidates.

We’re Disability Confident Committed, so if you’re a person with a disability, if you’re neurodivergent, or if you have a condition that you believe may affect your performance during our selection process, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes for you.