Procurement Capabilities and Programmes Manager

Andover or Poland

Great People Work Here

Are you searching for a career with bags of variety, in an environment that celebrates differences and empowers collaboration, which values people and will encourage you to make an impact? Do you want the freedom to explore, and the opportunities to find new ways and to innovate? If so, TwiningsOvo delivers.

We’re looking for people who don’t just come here to get the job done, but who have a real passion for the brand and a desire to do the best job they can. In return, we offer an inspiring package of employee benefits - to show just how much we value you. This role will offer you the scope for growth and the tools to aim high.

The Procurement Capabilities and Programmes Manager is responsible for driving capability development across the global Procurement function, now and for the future.

The role will lead the design, implementation and continuous improvement of Procurement capability frameworks, performance standards, development of career pathways and the delivery of learning programmes, ensuring the organisation has the knowledge, skills, behaviours and capabilities required to deliver its strategic objectives

Key Responsibilities

Capability Strategy

• 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

Capability Assessment

• 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.

Career and Talent Learning & Development

• 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.

Knowledge Management

• 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

Essential

• 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.

Desirable

• 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.

About Twinings Ovaltine

Twinings has become one of the world’s most renowned tea companies over its 300-year history because we never stop learning, never stop experimenting and never stop inventing. We take pride in our tea from bud to cup and have been working with some of our tea estates around the world since the early 18th Century.

More than 300 years later, the love of tea is still here - and so are we! We still sell tea from Thomas’s shop, and we still work hard to bring the most innovative new blends to tea lovers around the world. Now, we have over 500 varieties and our teas are cherished all over the world. Our expert master blenders taste more than 3,000 cups of tea every week. So you can be sure the next cup you taste will be every bit as good as the one yesterday or the day before.

Our approach to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At TwiningsOvo, we believe in the power of diversity to drive innovation and meaningful work. We are committed to building a workplace where people from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences feel safe, valued, have a sense of belonging and are empowered to thrive. Inclusion is more than a goal, it’s how we work together every day. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against an applicant on the basis of their ethnicity, colour, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability, neurodiversity, age, socioeconomic background or any other status protected by law and are committed to promoting diversity across our workplace.

Applicants may be entitled to reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Equality Act. A reasonable adjustment is a change in the way things are typically done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity.

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