Procurement Category Manager - Retail
- Engage Retail & Property community to understand business strategies
- Develop medium and long term Strategies, ensuring commercial tension across all areas of spend
- Using stakeholder and supplier networks, identify continuous improvement and step-change opportunities to product and service specifications
- Identification of revenue improvement opportunities
- Own and embody the team's values, including the promotion and embedding within the team
- Financial reporting of cost improvement on a P&L basis, interpreting CAPEX, OPEX, depreciation and cash flow
- Operate agile and effective commercial processes
- Optimise buying channels, to ensure efficient transactional procurement
- Identification of global synergies
- Creation of global Retail & Property commercial strategy identifying all sources of benefit short/mid and long term
- Provision of strong commercial leadership on all areas of costs
- Develop and conduct Rfx's for market activity ensuring size and complexity are fit for purpose
- Creation and buy in to key supplier management strategy to drive improved performance across the supply base
- Develop an understanding and knowledge of all industry specific technology solutions
- Become a "trusted advisor" member of the Retail community
- Maximise contract compliance and spend under management
- Technically and commercially astute
- Exceptional commercial experience (including strategy creation, implementation and benefit delivery)
- Building of Retail & Property strategies
- TCO modelling to define optimal cost structures
- Excellent people and influencing skills across all levels of the organisation
- Highly organised
- Self-motivated and can-do attitude
- Graduate calibre with Bachelor's degree (desirable but not mandatory)
- Post-graduate qualification (e.g. MSc/MBA) or a professional qualification such as MCIPS is desirable but not essential
- Project Management qualification desirable but not essential
- Generous group bonus scheme
- Hybrid working
- Private medical insurance
- Pension scheme
- Ability to buy and sell holiday
- Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind
- Additional "It's Your Game" day off to use at either Christmas or New Year
- Entain & Enhance days - 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development
- Share save scheme
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