Purchase to Pay Workstream Lead

What we can offer you

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues. 
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

Job Introduction

We’re looking for a Purchase to Pay Workstream Lead to shape, deliver and embed the future of our global P2P processes as part of a number of finance projects. 

You’ll take the lead on designing standardised, efficient and well‑controlled P2P processes across the organisation, ensuring they fully support accounts payable activity and integrate seamlessly with finance projects and our IFS Cloud migration. 

Working closely with Procurement, Finance and the Project Lead, you’ll ensure every initiative is well‑designed, well‑governed and delivered with clarity, confidence and strong financial controls. 

Main Responsibilities

• Leading the design of a future‑ready target operating model for Purchase to Pay processes, collaborating closely with Procurement and Finance stakeholders. 
• Defining the tools, systems and applications required to support efficient global P2P operations. 
• Establishing and maintaining the P2P process taxonomy and ensuring alignment with group standards and the William Grant Way. 
• Using activity analysis to build baseline cost insights that inform future process improvements. 
• Setting workstream goals and designing the initiatives needed to achieve them, supported by clear execution plans. 
• Identifying interdependencies, risks and issues across the P2P landscape and ensuring robust mitigation, escalation or resolution. 
• Assessing resource and budget requirements and supporting mobilisation of the right team capabilities to deliver the roadmap. 
• Acting as the Subject Matter Expert for the IFS Cloud rollout, ensuring P2P processes, controls and ways of working are consistently embedded across all implementations. 
• Owning the multi‑year roadmap for the P2P workstream, ensuring all projects follow governance standards and secure the necessary approvals. 
• Designing and implementing standardised P2P KPIs across the group, ensuring they drive performance, visibility and continuous improvement. 
• Continuously reviewing P2P processes to identify opportunities to simplify, strengthen and improve end‑to‑end efficiency. 
• Ensuring clear and effective change management and communication practices support every P2P initiative. 
• Working closely with the Programme Management Office to ensure all activity is coordinated, risk‑aware and delivered on time and within budget. 

Our Ideal Candidate

You’re a process‑driven, detail‑focused professional with deep knowledge of Purchase to Pay or accounts payable processes. You enjoy bringing order and clarity to complex process landscapes and have a strong ability to translate operational challenges into structured, scalable solutions. With strong stakeholder engagement skills and a passion for improving the way organisations manage spend and supplier relationships, you thrive in process improvement environments where standardisation and control are key.

This Role Would Suit:

• Someone with strong P2P or accounts payable process expertise, ideally in a global setting.
• An individual experienced in change management, ERP implementation or process standardisation and has experience using LEAN or Six Sigma methodology.
• A structured thinker who enjoys designing operating models, frameworks and future‑state processes.
• A clear communicator who can influence non‑finance and finance stakeholders alike.
• Someone who values governance, documentation and well‑defined metrics to drive performance.

If you’re energised by the challenge of leading the P2P workstream for our finance projects and shaping world‑class processes, we’d love to hear from you.

About William Grant & Sons

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We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY

Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.