**Description** ⁃ To provide strategic direction and tactical delivery of procurement activities and projects across several Corporate facing category areas, namely Corporate and professional services, IT and Supply Chain. ⁃ Utilizing previous experience, identify and deliver positively disruptive, agile procurement solutions, resulting in auditable incremental value creation which you will report to the business, through a highly collaborative approach with both local and global stakeholders. ⁃ To be identified/seen as, the regional procurement specialist across the business, ensuring that credible relationships evolve and develop to roadmap and deliver continuous improvement, innovation and value creation. ⁃ Define and implement regional sourcing action plans in line with global/regional strategies, through sharing, co⁃creation and continuous improvement to maximize all opportunities for increased value creation in your segment and across the team. ⁃ Negotiating commercials, and contract terms together with legal affairs, with important vendors, whilst protecting brand reputation and mitigating risk. ⁃ Proactively managing spend data, PO Compliance, Payment term adoption, and escalating operational issues across the business where identified or optimization opportunities exist. ⁃ Supporting the regional IP leadership team in ongoing Procurement transformation projects ⁃ Representing the Procurement function as an ambassador through best practice.Key roles & responsibilities⁃ Lead and collaborate from your seat to ensure that the key Procurement and UK regional business objectives are aligned and deliver according to the pre⁃set goals and live sourcing strategies. ⁃ Independently develop the procurement business agenda across corporate facing spend activities, in line with the department and regions goals, to ensure that a proactive, collaborative stakeholder buy⁃in develops, and that your personal relationship/credibilityis utilized to enable procurement to lead a positively disruptive, agile and effective business projects. ⁃ Lead cross Brand/Function Supplier negotiations to ensure best overall cost position for the Organization for assigned commodities. Negotiate, develop and approve contracts, agreements, supplier direction and business awards. ⁃ Maintain and provide a current understanding of industry best practices and technology trends to team members and business partners ⁃ Develop and lead the strategy evolution to mitigate Supplier risks within the assigned area of responsibility ⁃ Utilize the tools, and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities, and efficiencies. Work collaboratively with team members to prioritize and drive implementation ⁃ Support sustainability efforts within assigned commodities **Qualifications**