Procurement Manager - Property

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, please talk to the Hiring Manager about how they can support you.

We are looking for a Procurement Manager to join the Tesco Property Procurement Team. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering strategic development, planning and sourcing initiatives, which drives value for money and efficiencies throughout the procurement lifecycle.

You will be responsible for

• Delivering high savings targets through implementation of robust sourcing events, ensuring that suppliers meet all operational requirements whilst providing best value for Tesco.
• Through influence and challenge develop strong working collaborations with partners to support, endorse and deliver sub category plans aligned to category procurement strategies to realise business savings and support innovation. 
• Build and deliver sub category plans aligned to category plans by being innovative and collaborative with various cross functional partners.
• Consistently supervise and report on savings targets for specified sub-categories using the agreed process.
• Using good judgement build new and develop existing supplier relationships to ensure continued suitability and create greater value across the organisation.
• Support the business to achieve compliance with legal, ethical and safety procurement policies with integrity and good judgment.

You will need

• Experience of leading large categories within large scale organisations is crucial.
• Procurement management and negotiation skills, experience of handling extensive multi-million pound sourcing events.
• Capability to lead sophisticated projects, driving innovation and standard methodology through others.
• Cross functional working and partner engagement. Strong influencing skills
• Supplier relationship and performance management skills.
• Category planning skills, capability to build and implement strategies.
• High level of commercial competence.
• Contract management skills.

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About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here. 

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.