Open Roles at M-KOPA Solar

In this role, you would be responsible for:

• Owning vendor contracting for parts, goods, and services. Negotiating terms directly for Mobility’s largest and most repeated purchases, and contracting and managing insurance, logistics, and freight partners
• Maintaining a vendor register with pricing, terms, and performance history, and monitoring vendors on price, quality, and delivery, acting on underperformance where required
• Setting purchasing policy and approval limits with the Head of Strategic Finance and applying them consistently across markets, flagging out-of-policy purchases for General Manager or Finance sign-off
• Working with Supply Chain on specification and vendor selection for repair parts and inventory, with Business Operations on sourcing for retail and resale, and with Product and Partnerships on vehicle and battery purchasing from manufacturers bringing commercial terms, landed cost analysis, and supplier risk into every deal
• Tracking and reporting Mobility’s spend by category and vendor, identifying savings opportunities and consolidation options
• Running vendor onboarding and due diligence in line with M-KOPA policy, working with Legal and Compliance throughout
• Standing up vendor relationships and purchasing terms ahead of each new market launch, working with Country Managers and Strategy on local sourcing options

Your application should demonstrate:

• 6+ years of experience in procurement or vendor management, ideally in a hardware, automotive, retail, or asset finance business
• Proven experience negotiating contracts with parts, goods, insurance, or logistics vendors
• Experience working across functions to translate a specification into a vendor decision
• Experience setting purchasing policy that other teams apply day to day
• Demonstrated ability to use spend data to drive savings and better vendor decisions
• A degree in Business, Supply Chain, or a related field

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What you’ll do

• Own the fleet programme, including the lease, own or hire decision and NTSA compliance, plus oversight of executive, Board and international travel.
• Run HQ and warehouse facilities, office moves and fit-outs, and manage the budget, vendor contracts and cost savings across all of it.
• Lead and develop the specialist leads, and move manual reporting onto dashboards and tools like FreshService, Dynamics, HiBob and Milo.

What you bring

• A degree in business, operations, facilities or hospitality management, or equivalent experience, plus an extensive track record in workplace, facilities, travel, fleet or administrative operations, including leading specialist teams.
• Demonstrable experience with multi-vendor budgets, purchase-to-payment and accrual discipline, cost-based fleet and space decisions, and improving processes with data and technology.
• Working knowledge of NTSA requirements, county permits, the Occupational Safety and Health Act 2007 and the Data Protection Act 2019, with strong discretion and a calm head in incidents.