Procurement Manager
John Lewis Partnership
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £57,800 - £86,400 per year
About the role
- Provide commercial expertise and procurement leadership to key business stakeholders, securing commercial agreements
- Deliver best in class sourcing, and supplier management activity and for planning and executing negotiation strategies for GNFR Procurement.
- Demonstrate an understanding of internal and external trends relating to your area of responsibility and a broader understanding of the wider market.
- Deliver compliance to Procurement policy and ensure that regulatory compliance and commercial risk for the Partnership is protected through supplier management and risk frameworks.
- Actively support and contribute towards supplier rationalisation across the Partnership.
- Ensure that your area of responsibility actively follows Procurement best practice, policy and procedures, using Procurement tools and ensuring consistency with Partnership principles and our Ethics & Sustainability ambitions.
Requirements
- Broad procurement experience, including category planning and supplier management.
- Extensive experience in buying a full range of Supply Chain Services & Equipment
- Extensive negotiation and contracting expertise
- Critical analysis, and influencing skills to work with and influence a broad cross-section of stakeholders
- Commercial expertise to drive and deliver business improvement opportunities across the business.
- Good understanding of procurement strategy, policy, process and systems
- CIPS or CILT qualified or working towards (desirable)
- Understanding of Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) programmes as it relates to third party outcomes (desirable)
- Professional Negotiation Training via a specialist provider such as The GAP Partnership, Scotworks or CIPS (desirable)
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
procurementsupplier managementcategory planningnegotiationcontractingcompliancerisk managementsourcingcommercial agreementssupply chain services
Soft Skills
critical analysisinfluencingstakeholder engagementcommercial expertisebusiness improvementleadershipcommunicationcollaborationstrategic thinkingproblem-solving
Certifications
CIPSCILTProfessional Negotiation Training