Honda Motor Europe Ltd

Business Operations

• Develop and implement a Business Operations category plan that aligns with business priorities
• Identify and deliver cost reduction, value creation, and efficiency opportunities
• Lead end-to-end Business Operations sourcing events (RFx’s) in line with related policies and business requirements
• Define Business Operations sourcing strategies, evaluation criteria, and negotiation approaches
• Negotiate commercial terms, pricing models, and contractual frameworks
• Ensure robust supplier selection and due diligence, including ESG considerations
• Translate business needs into procurement strategies and sourcing activities
• Drive adoption of procurement best practices across the organisation
• Support strategic supplier relationships
• Identify and drive supplier innovation and continuous improvement initiatives
• Identify supplier risks and propose countermeasures
• Ensure sourcing events fully comply with related policies, legal standards, and audit requirements
• Maintain accurate documentation and audit-ready sourcing records
• Track and report procurement benefits (hard savings, cost avoidance, value-add)
• Support budgeting and forecasting activities with Finance
• Monitor category spend and identify optimisation opportunities
• Manage Category Specialists to support category strategies and sourcing events
• Develop an environment of continuous improvement where the team can challenge the status quo and identify opportunities for improvement
• Contribute to the drafting and review of contracts in collaboration with Legal and the business stakeholders
• Support stakeholders from a Procurement perspective with the creation of a business case to enter into a contract for specific services/goods
• Work with Indirect Sourcing colleagues on achieving departmental objectives

Category Manager – Indirect Sourcing

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Oversee the SOX compliance program across the region
• Collaborate with senior management to define control objectives and monitor compliance performance
• Maintain and update the Risk & Control Matrix (RACM) and related control documentation
• Ensure business process owners and control owners are fully aware of their responsibilities
• Coordinate with IT associates to plan, execute, and complete all phases of IT SOX compliance
• Communicate and explain audit findings to control owners and help build practical and timely remediation plans
• Support internal audit processes for the Finance Division

Financial Risk and Compliance Manager

Recruitment

• Deliver end to end recruitment, including advertising, shortlisting, interviewing, offers, and onboarding administration for UK based roles
• Coordinate and consolidate regional recruitment data and insights across Europe, partnering with local HR to ensure accurate and timely understanding of recruitment activity
• Ensure all job vacancies follow the internal approval process, communicating outcomes to relevant departments to enable recruitment activity to commence
• Review employment legislation changes to ensure governance around recruitment processes
• Evaluate new job descriptions to appoint a job grade, as per Honda’s job grading structure, and manage the job description library across Europe
• Provide expert guidance on UK recruitment practices and market conditions to drive data and analytics to provide insights into turnover through exit interviews and market pay rates for contractors or industry specialism
• Monitor, analyse, and report on recruitment and workforce metrics, including time to hire, cost per hire, demographic data, and contractor populations
• Develop dashboards and reporting to support strategic decision-making and continuous improvement
• Support EU Pay Transparency requirements during recruitment offers for both permanent and non-permanent roles
• Lead the tender process for recruitment agency contract renewal
• Own and oversee the probation review process, ensuring objectives are set and outcomes completed within defined timeframes
• Provide governance oversight for a large pool of agency and contractors, including usage controls, contractual compliance, onboarding and extension of contracts
• Lead corporate governance controls across recruitment and workforce engagement
• Lead internal and external audits, ensuring processes align with corporate governance frameworks and evidence is audit ready
• Identify governance or control gaps and drive continuous improvement to processes, documentation, and compliance consistency
• Provide oversight of diversity and inclusion metrics within recruitment, ensuring alignment with internal objectives and regulatory expectations

Category Manager – Indirect Sourcing

Financial Risk and Compliance Manager

Recruitment & Governance Lead