Senior Director of Delivery - GP&SC

Senior Director of Delivery - GP&SC

Location:

London, ENG, GB, N1C 4AG
;
Corby, ENG, GB, NN17 5JF

Brand: RS Group

Function:
Supply Chain

Work Location:

Hybrid

This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our London and Corby offices – there will be significant travel involved across our global business.

Senior Director of Delivery – Product & Supply Chain is accountable for the strategy & definition, prioritisation, end to end delivery and reporting of RS Group’s Product & Supply Chain strategic projects to deliver the Group Strategy. The scope of the Product & Supply Chain delivery plan covers all organic investment across Product & Supply Chain, including the delivery of Product & Supply Chain projects identified within the Process & Operational Excellence programme.

Also includes monitoring of Business-as-Usual projects within the Product & Supply Chain Accelerator function.

The role is accountable for delivery of all projects in the plan to cost/time/quality and ensuring Investment Proposals are robust and the benefits are delivered, working with Business Sponsors and Business Owners within the relevant region or functional team.

The role will ensure the Product & Supply Chain delivery function has the skills, capability and capacity required to exploit all new and existing opportunities and ensure strategic targets are realised. The role will manage a team of project professionals (permanent and contract) including project managers and change managers.

The role will provide support and challenge to the Product & Supply Chain Accelerator function leadership team and matrixed Product & Supply Chain team in delivering the change portfolio and championing the portfolio both within the Product & Supply Chain functions and beyond. They will build a coalition of senior stakeholders across the organisation to support the delivery of the roadmap.

The role will need to set realistic expectations across senior management and broker discussions to ensure teams are aligned and set up for success.

The role holder will need to operate at a strategic level including setting the future strategy for the function and critically to provide support to projects at a detailed level to ensure they deliver to cost/time/quality. This will include managing relationships with IS&T leadership team and other key delivery partners, including owning the relationship with external suppliers.

The role holder will work closely with the Global Process Owners and Global Data Owners to translate the ambition for global and standardised processes and solutions into delivery projects across Product & Supply Chain, ensuring that the GPOs and GDOs are supported with the right skills and capacity to enable successful delivery of the transformation.

The role will collaborate with other senior delivery leads across the organisation to ensure standards for project and programme delivery are being met, and to ensure a holistic view of the overall organic investment portfolio is maintained.

• Defining the strategy for the Product & Supply Chain delivery function
• Creating the strategy and pipeline for the Product & Supply Chain organic spend, and aligning this within the P&SC accelerator function and regional teams.
• Work with VPs and leaders in other delivery functions and the VP of Transformation to ensure a balanced portfolio of organic spend across all areas, ensuring the Product & Supply Chain strategy is represented
• Accountable for the end to end delivery of organic investment projects within the Product & Supply Chain area to cost/time/quality as measured by the Project delivery KPI for the Accelerator function
• Ensure creation of robust business cases, working in collaboration with other functions to gain approval – such as finance, IS&T, regional teams. Work with regional teams to ensure their input and approval is obtained before submission. Identify and pursue opportunities within the portfolio where benefits can be accelerated effectively
• Undertake regular portfolio reviews and assurance and represent the organic investment plan in the Product & Supply Chain quarterly…