Procurement Capabilities and Programmes Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the global Procurement Capability Framework, conducting periodic reviews to ensure the standards remain relevant.
• Define capability knowledge, skills and behavioural standards for all Procurement job families.
• Develop competency profiles for every Procurement role
• Monitor external trends, professional standards and identify emerging capability needs, translating them into updates to frameworks, programmes and learning priorities.
• Support talent reviews and succession planning through capability insights. Develop and maintain a Procurement Excellence knowledge management capability for the wider Procurement team to access

• Own the end-to-end Procurement competency assessment process, coordinating capability assessments across the global Procurement organisation.
• Ensure consistency of assessment methodology across all regions.
• Manage relationships with external capability assessment providers where applicable.
• Own the governance and prioritisation of the capability programme roadmap, including dependences, risks, resources, milestones and benefits.
• Analyse assessment outcomes to identify capability strengths and organisational gaps, Produce capability reports and recommendations for Procurement Leadership.

• Design and maintain structured development pathways for all Procurement career levels, ensuring alignment between capability expectations and career progression.
• Develop learning curricula based on capability assessment outcomes using the 70:20:10 learning methodology, recommending resources and materials that enable professionals plan and execute their learning journeys.
• Lead change management and adoption activity for new capability frameworks, learning programmes including stakeholder communications and reinforcement plans.
• Establish programme success measures and benefits-realisation reviews to demonstrate improved capability, application of learning and business impact.
• Partner with internal subject matter experts and external providers, to coordinate technical, behavioural and leadership development programmes.
• Monitor the effectiveness of learning interventions and promote a culture of continuous learning across Procurement. Development communities of practice, mentoring and peer-learning networks to strengthen knowledge sharing across regions and retain critical organisational knowledge.
• Partner with HR to integrate procurement capability requirements into recruitment, onboarding, talent reviews, succession planning and career development processes.

• Design a Knowledge Management methodology that promotes accessible ways of learning across the global Procurement team, aligning with strategic outcomes
• Identify, capture and organise critical knowledge as part of the procurement lifecycle, process and systems workflow.
• Identify knowledge gaps for Procurement and business users and provide recommendations for closure
• Identify, capture and organise implicit knowledge for continuous improvement for procurement knowledge retention.
• Lead change management and adoption activity for new knowledge management practices, including stakeholder communications and reinforcement plans.
• Maintain oversight of digital learning and knowledge management platforms, including content ownership, accessibility, user experience, usage analytics and continuous improvement.
  
  

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Significant experience in Procurement, Procurement Excellence, or Capability Development.
• Experience developing competency frameworks, capability models and knowledge management methodology.
• Experience implementing organisational performance improvement initiatives.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills.
• Excellent project and programme management skills.
• Experience working in global, matrix organisations.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

• Procurement category management experience.
• Experience with competency assessment methodologies.
• Knowledge of performance management frameworks.
• Experience working with external capability providers (e.g. Positive Purchasing).
• Experience using Workday or similar HR and Learning platforms.
• Continuous Improvement certification (Lean, Six Sigma or equivalent).

Benefits

• Yearly bonus based on personal contribution and financial performance
• Flexible working options
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays and the option to buy and sell holidays
• Onsite Gym and Wellbeing Centre (Andover)
• Perkbox – employee discount scheme with discounts online, in high street stores, cinema, holidays, restaurants and many more
• Pension scheme with your contributions matched for up to 10% of your salary
• Cycle to work scheme
• SimplyHealth Cash plan
• Onsite Staff shop and online staff discounts
• Electric Car Scheme
• Access to LinkedIn Learning
• Access to ABF Networking, connect, collaborate, and grow across the ABF Group.