Procurement Systems and Change Consultant

Procurement Systems and Change Consultant

12-month Fixed term contract

Location: London, York, Norwich, Perth or Bristol based

Salary: circa £55,000 (national); circa £65,000 (London)

We have an opportunity for an experienced Procurement Systems and Change Consultant to join our supportive and driven team. This is a great job for someone with systems and change management experience who is looking to progress their career through a secondment opportunity!

A bit about the job:

The purpose of this role is to support our procurement Tech & Data team to maximise value from our procurement tools, process and governance, ensuring all change activity is handled in an efficient and effective way. This will be done by both owning and executing changes within the system or processes and by coordinating all procurement system change activities, technical defects & enhancements.  This will also include producing reporting to support the overall change picture and communicate activities upwards through management. Additionally, you will collaborate with our on and offshore partners to ensure a continuous improvement culture is embedded and delivered through incremental and larger change.

To succeed in this role you will have strong commercial awareness and business skills.

Please note that we can offer this role as a 12-month Fixed term contract.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Good working knowledge of change and demand management processes
• IT Knowledge —Advanced skills in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Ariba or other Procurement, or similar, systems
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with a strong focus on identifying customer needs and pain point root causes
• Ability to interpret complex data and previous experience of handling sophisticated change projects would be beneficial
• An understanding of end-to-end Procurement & SRM processes

What you’ll get:

Our purpose – with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We want you to shine. That’s why we have so much to offer you:

Lighting everyone’s path:

• Salary around £55,000 (national); £65,000 (London)- depending on skills, location, experience, and qualifications
• Bonus opportunity – 10% of annual salary, depending on your performance and the business’
• Generous pension scheme – we’ll contribute up to 14%
• Get up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan
• Make your money go further – up to 40% discount on Aviva products, plus other retailer discounts
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays – you can buy or sell up to 5 days
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Industry-leading access to life and healthcare cover with discounted car and home insurance rates, including offers for friends and family too
• Fully paid maternity/paternity leave
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• Get free access to a wealth of resources that will help look after your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing, including company-funded Group Income Protection, Aviva Digicare+ and the popular Headspace app

Brighten your prospects:

• Full financial support to pursue insurance qualifications
• Digital access to all sorts of useful on-demand learning content
• Aviva University and its business academies give you everything you need to empower your growth

Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. Don’t let it be a barrier to your application. And if you’re in a job share, feel free to apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week – combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you need a different way of applying, please send an email to balazs.palcsek@aviva.com