Procurement Business Partner

Job Description

Life at Elvie; Meaningful work, Exceptional People

We're Elvie. We create smart products, new solutions, and a fair few taboo-busting conversations while we’re at it. Founded by Tania Boler in 2013, we develop extraordinary innovations designed to improve women’s lives. It's a fascinating and challenging area that requires us to solve problems that no one else has ever tackled before.

At Elvie, you’ll be surrounded by people who want to improve everything and everyone around them. People who are passionate about our mission. People who are driven to solve problems and constantly consider the best ways to improve the health and wellbeing of women.

Find out more about life at Elvie here.

We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive:

• We make an impact: We’re mission-driven and not afraid to break boundaries. We relentlessly focus on going the extra mile to solve problems.
• We’re fearless innovators: We are passionate, curious, and data-driven. We continuously embrace change and innovation.
• We’re in it together: we fail and learn fast — always as one team — and have fun along the way. We stay authentic and embrace our differences.

About the role:

Okay, we’ve waffled long enough. So let’s get to the good bit: You.

As Procurement Business Partner you will sit in our Procurement team but spend most of your time embedded within our ‘Scoping and Partnerships’ (S&P) BU who are tasked with rapidly incubating new products and propositions. Key accountabilities will be the scoping, sourcing and management of crucial supplier partnerships. The antithesis of a back office position, this role is all about forging new strategic manufacturing and Digital service partnerships that underpin our existing revolutionary female-first technology products.

This brand new role will also be the primary interface for the wider Operations function (S&OP, Logistics, Operations Quality, Customer Care) into our ‘Scoping & Partnerships’ and ‘Product Management’ BUs where you’ll be tasked with providing leadership, decision making and execution on all things Procurement and Supply Chain.

As an embedded SME within your stakeholder group, this role will suit a credible, calm and emotionally aware individual who can balance the dual requirements of advising/planning and execution. You will be responsible for executing strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, new supplier on-boarding and supplier relationship management activities for a small number of critical suppliers.

This is a strategic role embedded within the S&P BU and we see the position expanding and growing in line with the growth of the S&P function itself as new partnerships and products are brought into the portfolio.

Location: Hybrid working; a mix of working from our Bristol or London office & working remotely

Employment type: Permanent (please note, you must have the right to work in the UK)

What you’ll be doing at Elvie:

• Business Partner with our Product division – most notably with the ‘Scoping & Partnerships’ (S&P) and ‘Product Management’ functions – provide timely insight and procurement delivery to ensure the success of the Product Division
• Lead the creation and execution of a 1-5 year procurement roadmap that aligns with the S&P product delivery roadmap, focused on strategic sourcing and supplier development activities
• Scope New Product Introduction (NPI) opportunities against Operations criteria, drawing on wider operations SMEs to solicit constructive challenge and build a credible narrative of operations input and effort for NPI projects
• Source and qualify prospective manufacturing partners for S&P product categories, within adjacent categories to our existing breast pumping products and new women’s health categories
• Negotiate preferable win:win commercial models and contracts with new and current supply partners
• Lead the New Supplier activation process, from request to onboarding, acting as a liaison between S&P and Operations Quality
• Embed robust, meaningful Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) principles, mechanisms and governance with critical supply partners including such methods as MBR/QBRs, supplier and product co-development roadmaps, KPIs and SLAs, and risk/reward mechanisms
• Be the voice of Operations within the day to day activity of the S&P team, ensuring that holistic decisions are taken and that operations-owned deliverables are well executed
• Ensure our CMs are appropriately equipped and ready to meet our demand, managing this on a real time basis and also with longer term planning and investment
• Develop and execute new product cost strategies to meet business case requirements, represent procurement in debating cost/quality/speed/risk trade-offs through the product development lifecycle
• Leverage strategic cost analysis and competitor cost teardown activity to support supplier negotiation and continuous improvement programmes, either directly or through collaboration with Cost Engineering colleagues

Requirements

What we are looking for:

First and foremost we want people with an authentic desire and enthusiasm to work within a social purpose led scale up organisation committed to bettering the lives of women. Beyond that…

• A credible, capable and diplomatic communicator who can translate operational bureaucracy into true value adding procurement strategy
• A procurement professional with excellent strategic sourcing and supplier management skills
• Excellent personal leadership skills that make you a leader among peers and teams without formal authority
• Proven senior stakeholder engagement capabilities, able to influence in different situations using multiple skills/techniques
• A sharp commercial mind that seeks out commercial opportunities, and acts clinically at pace to realise them
• An effective set of negotiation skills that help you balance driving excellent commercial value with authentic win:win results with supply partners
• Previous operational experience in other areas of supply chain such as logistics, supply/demand planning or operational quality would all be highly relevant and valuable complements to your procurement expertise, but not essential
• We are a consumer electronics manufacturing business so experience within similar industries is of great value. If you don’t have that background but do have some, most or even all of the other skills we’ve set out then please apply anyway and we’ll happily consider your application

Benefits

We're on an exceptional journey. And we can offer you a genuinely purpose-led career with a culture built on trust, autonomy, and flexibility. In addition, we'll give you:

• Lots of flexibility: whether it’s working from home, doing the school run, or life admin, we understand that flexibility is essential, and we trust you to do the right thing for you and us
• Share options: we want everyone to have a stake in our success
• An annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays
• 8 extra life leave days; getting married, moving house, menopause or just things that you can’t put a label on that matter to you
• 5=10 leave: 10 days’ additional leave on your 5th and 10th years of service!
• £100 contribution to your home working set up to spend as you see fit
• An annual personal development allowance of £200 and unlimited access to our learning and development platform, Learnerbly
• Generous parental leave policies; maternity, paternity/partner, shared & adoption
• Healthcare plans, life insurance, and an employee assistance program for you and your family
• A tax-efficient group pension scheme
• Group income protection; protect your salary if you get sick
• A free Elvie trainer for you to keep or give away when you join
• Generous employee and friends & family discounts on Elvie products
• Wellbeing support from YuLife and access to SmartHealth app with unlimited GP appointments for you and your family, plus various well-being initiatives throughout the year
• Lovely offices in great locations, with drinks and snacks provided, along with fun social events

What you can expect after you’ve applied:

A member of our recruitment team will reach out to you after they have reviewed your application. You must ensure your application is completed correctly, and we strongly encourage you to add a cover letter or note to let us know why Elvie’s the right fit for you.

We would like to get to know you through your background, attitude, experience and understand your motivation to work with us. Our interview process varies depending on the position, but it typically looks like this:

• 20-minute video call with one of our recruiters
• 30-45 minute video call with the hiring manager
• 45-60 minute video interview with the team (some positions may require you to complete a task/presentation)
• For some positions, there may be an additional interview with one of senior our leadership team

This is undoubtedly a great time to join Elvie. You’ll have a voice, make an impact, and have the opportunity to mould your role. So be ready to learn, have fun, and be inspired by our passionate, talented team — and having a sense of humour helps too. 😉

We can’t wait to hear from you!

Belonging at Elvie

At Elvie, we believe having diverse teams in which everyone can be their authentic self is key to our success. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and we don't discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, marital status, disability or age.

If you need any support with your application, please get in contact with us: elvie@jobs.workablemail.com or 0203 884 7223.

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