Senior Operations Manager London, England
Job description
Senior Operations Manager
Contract Term: 4 months
Contracting Authority: Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
Location: Hybrid Working (two days per week office based – various locations)
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) priorities include improving public safety and reducing reoffending by reforming prisons, probation and youth justice, and building a justice system which makes access to justice swifter and more certain for all citizens whatever their background. Project professionals in the MoJ help to improve the government’s ability to protect the public and reduce reoffending, and to provide a more effective, transparent and responsive criminal justice system for victims and the public.
Job Purpose:
The Procure to Pay Team in CCMD requires an experienced general manager to lead them, coordinate day to day activity, organise demand from programme/projects, and to review several legacy products to test whether they’re fit for purpose and if required, decommission, and rebuild them.
As a Senior Operations Manager, your main responsibilities would be to:
- Support the developments for the future Source to Pay system, ensuring the specific requirements for Purchase to Pay account for all areas of MoJ.
- Lead on the implementation of new policies and ways of working, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure workstreams are delivered according to plan
- Lead the development and adoption of systems, including but not limited to Basware eMarketplace by CCMD and MoJ staff and suppliers, ensuring benefits are achieved in line with business case
- Act as lead stakeholder on Government Shared Service project board, encouraging adoption by other SOP clients through example and sharing best practice
- Lead and develop the low value transactional strategy incorporating but not limited to GPC, SSCL Requisition to Pay team and Basware eMarketplace
- Support the adoption of Global P2P principals and convergence to standard government P2P processes throughout MoJ
- Act as Global P2P process owner for MoJ in conjunction with MoJ finance
- Review and lead the delivery of the supplier setup and maintenance process
- Lead the requirements, sponsor the build, and assure the solution for spend reporting, insight, analysis and modelling.
- Support and work with commercial teams to develop efficient and effective transactional strategies as part of pre-procurement activity which focus on prompt payment to suppliers.
- Support and work with the business, commercial teams and shared service provider to optimise the use of the current P2P system with an aim to achieving efficiencies and cost savings through use of existing functionality (catalogues, smart forms, contract purchase agreements, electronic invoicing etc.);
- Develop and deliver an ongoing P2P support service, aligned to the needs of the business and the users; continually evolving the service and seeking user feedback.
- Develop and maintain appropriate P2P guidance to support CCMD and the wider MoJ in delivering their business objectives
- Act as a delegate to the Head of Commercial Systems for various Board memberships when required.
- Membership of various cross-government/Government Shared Services (GSS) hosted P2P and prompt payment groups
You’ll have relevant:
- Experience in leading and motivating a large multi-functional team
- An understanding of P2P processes and industry standard practices (including government global design principles)
- Understanding of commercial processes and Source to Contract systems and how these link to the P2P process
- Understanding finance processes and principles and how these link to the P2P process
- Experience in process ownership and improvement for large organisations
- Experience in leading the development of reporting and insight from large datasets
- Experience in leading and coaching individuals to maximise their abilities
- Experienced networker with proven ability to build effective relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following “this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different”.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Job Type: Temporary contract
Contract length: 4 months
Benefits:
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: On the road
