Procurement Manager - Property Maintenance

About The Role

The Procurement Manager role will manage procurement of all Goods Not For Resale within Property Maintenance & Capex .You’ll utilise your procurement experience to ensure best practice category management, supplier relationship management (SRM) and contract management techniques to support our competitive advantage and profitability by obtaining great value goods and services in line with business goals. Additionally you will manage end to end procurement initiatives, designing strategic and robust solutions to drive commercial benefit, sustainably. Always acting as a trusted advisor to our five stakeholder groups: suppliers, customers, colleagues, shareholders and communities to build a pipeline for future procurement improvements within the category.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Development and delivery of sourcing and contracting strategies across the category, in line with objectives, achieved through a full mapping of the spend category and the associated market
• Ensuring detailed, forward-looking 3 year category plans are agreed with stakeholders, aligned to the wider business objectives, regularly reviewed based on changing business needs and supply markets. achieved through engagement with the market to seek best supply options and the ability to present these clearly back to the internal stakeholder with a clear and reasoned recommendation
• Supporting stakeholders with supplier relationship strategies, supporting strategic reviews and developing joint plans with stakeholders
• Working to limit non-contractual spend through the stakeholder base, driving corrective action where needed, ensuring best practice through continued training and support
• Positively influence policy thinking and drive continuous improvement across the category
• Demonstrate a positive attitude and inspire confidence in others around you when faced with uncertainty and change

This is a hybrid role operating over a four and a half day working week. This role is based at our fantastic head office in Bradford. Boasting an on-site restaurant, coffee shop, convenience and sample store, prayer room, free parking and regular company-wide events and promotions. Ideally, applicants will live within a reasonable distance of our office.

About You

We’ve built an incredibly diverse business, and we’re working hard to make sure we truly represent the communities we serve. One of the best things about working with so many different people is having the opportunity to listen, learn and connect with lots of different views, perspectives and beliefs. For this role, we’re looking for someone who has:

• Experience in implementing category management best practices, SRM techniques and sourcing strategies through previous work experience
• Knowledge of relevant markets and trends,
• Knowledge of relevant forms of contract to best procure goods and services
• Procurement technical skills including excellent commercialism
• Use of digital Enablers (eProc and digital Proc)
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Legal & CSR awareness
• Strong Project Management skill
• Personal accountability and leadership experience

About The Team

Our Procurement Department moves faster than most. They make sure we have what we need when we need it. Whether that's IT and tech equipment or energy, waste and recycling services, through to PPE and hand sanitiser to keep our people safe, plus extra delivery vans that help us serve more customers than ever.

It's their job to build strong relationships with suppliers so they can source everything we need to keep our stores, depots and manufacturing sites running. Which, in turn, helps keep prices low for our customers.

It all means that every £1 the team saves is equivalent to taking £50 through our checkouts. And with a £1.2 billion annual spend, you can feel the impact of Procurement right across our business.

About The Company

Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.

Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.

We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.

Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you…

Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;

• 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family members (subject to fair usage)
• Generous holiday entitlement
• 4 and a half day working week with flexible working hours
• Company pension contributions
• Perks with over 850 retailers
• Free parking onsite
• A range of family friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave