P2P Manager, OVO
£43-50k
+ You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Be an early applicant
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£43-50k
+ You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
We're on a mission to lower carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping our customers reduce theirs at the same time - we call this Plan Zero.
Role
Who you are
- Have an excellent knowledge of a Procure to Pay function and associated processes
- Possess experience of working with S2P platforms, ideally with Ivalua and Workday
- Have experience in a continuous improvement environment
- Have strong communication skills, engaging with senior leaders
- Can demonstrate trust and transparency with a high degree of integrity
- Are a thought leader, confident in influencing the agenda and driving outcomes with senior stakeholders
- Are a self-starter with an inquisitive mindset and a conscientious work ethic
- Are collaborative team player as well as a proactive independent worker
- Are a positive and proactive problem solver who can manage both planned and reactive requirements simultaneously
- Can deal with ambiguity, embracing change and decision making with confidence
- Have Project management experience as you will be helping shape our S2P platform transformation
- Are experienced in Data Analytics to navigate our systems and bring value driven insights to life!
What the job involves
- The role sits within Commercial Supplier Management in the Pillar 2 Finance team, reporting to the Head of Commercial Supplier Management
- You will be working cross functionally with our accounts payable team and S2P platform manager on a day to day basis, an expert in P2P practices, driving positive change in our processes, collaborating across multiple business functions and maturing our P2P agenda within the finance environment
- Supplier Onboarding: You will be accountable for all aspects of supplier onboarding, engaging with internal and external stakeholders, key decision making, issues and risk resolution
- Compliance and Risk Management: Ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory requirements, reducing the risk of fraud and non-compliance
- Process Ownership: Design, develop, maintain and optimise processes within the P2P lifecycle including the development of a governance framework. Supporting the Senior Manager on developing and implementing a strategic roadmap, to improve and sustain effective P2P practices and standards that meet OVO’s current and future business needs, as well as improving business performance and cost efficiency
- Risk Management: implementation of financial controls for P2P processes, working collaboratively with the Senior Supplier Resilience Manager to build and maintain the P2P Risk & Controls Matrix
- Value Creation: Optimising value by enabling opportunities from the new Ivalua source-to-pay platform. You will drive process and cost efficiencies through implementing process improvements shaped by data insights utilising Ivalua’s reporting suite
- Financial Reporting & MI: Support the development and implementation of a strategic dashboard to feed into the MI reporting cycle, ensuring that agreed spend, risk & controls, and value data is collected, analysed and recorded
- Data Analysis: Develop better visibility and controls through data management and sharing routines to inform value data-led decision making for the business. Support the Procurement and Supplier Management teams in optimising OVO’s supplier base through improved reporting from Ivalua supplier data to reduce complexity and cost. Utilising Ivalua as a data source to highlight value optimisation, key insights, and trends
- Automation/AI: Play a key part in improving processes efficiently. You will work closely with the S2P Platform Manager and Workday teams to develop and implement automation enhancements, as well as evaluating the use of AI automation and other technological advances across our P2P systems
- Central Buying Team: Lead and shape the buying team services including purchase requisitions and ordering, invoicing, and receipt of goods & services
- Stakeholder Engagement: Engage across multiple business areas and key stakeholders, supporting seamless interactions with the end to end P2P lifecycle. Supporting change management by advocating for platform adoption, communicating the value of the platform and gathering feedback from users to enhance functionality and build stakeholder confidence
- Team Leadership: Lead a team of P2P and central buying colleagues. Develop and support colleagues focusing on team performance, fostering a culture of cross collaboration and communication to deliver against our core objectives and company goals. Be the principal source of knowledge for the P2P management lifecycle
Salary benchmarks
Our take
On average, home energy represents 26% of our carbon footprint. Ovo Energy wants to bring this to zero by providing cheaper, greener and simpler energy to customers. They are analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, their offering is organised into four different energy plans. that include interest rewards on energy credit balance.
In 2020, OVO completed the acquisition of SSE Energy Services' retail arm for £500 million, meaning that the challenger brand now has around 4 million customers in the UK.
While helping Ovo members halve their carbon footprints, the company is also working towards becoming a net zero carbon business by 2035. The challenges ahead for the company include encouraging consumer behaviour change, shifting towards subscription models for home energy use.
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Inspiring mission
"The mission to provide Green energy to all customers, and to enable all our customers to start on a journey towards zero carbon living is written in..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$259.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$259.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $558.3m
Company benefits
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- 9% Flex Pay - extra on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, use as your pension contribution, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits (tech schemes, EV leasing and more!).
- Flexible / Remote Working
- Personal Development Allowances and Free Access to OVOLearn - our very own training platform
- 34 Days Holiday (including bank holidays)
- Health Insurance
- £400 OVO Energy Discount
Company values
- Find a better way - We always look for a better way, whether that’s by delivering a better service, employing brilliant people or improving our products and processes
- Do what's right - Being open, honest and fair is one of the values which applies to everything we do. We take pride in talking to our customers and delivering exceptional work
- Build something great - Simple solutions aren’t quick or easy to find. They take time and tenacity. Our people work to find an answer that helps us ‘build something great’
Company HQ
Redcliffe, Bristol, UK
Leadership
David Buttress
(CEO)CEO of OVO, the UK’s 3rd largest energy supplier. Joined in May 2024.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OVO
Alessandro Storer (Head of Inclusion & Belonging )
- We run inclusive training and unconscious bias workshops for employees and interviewers
- We provide mental health support, through different networks, having mental health first aiders within the business and running initiatives like our "wellbeing Wednesdays" to promote this.
- We have dedicated Early Years programmes with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business.
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused I&D job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity.
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech at OVO by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within OVO and the wider community
- Within OVO we have multiple belonging networks and communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- Read more about our commitments to improving Diversity & Inclusion at OVO in our linked belonging report
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