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About the Role
As a Senior Procurement Specialist, you will bring your commerciality and negotiation expertise to the forefront, working collaboratively to reduce Goods Not For Resale (GNFR) spend and mitigate third-party risk. You will take the lead on sourcing, category planning, and supplier management, confidently navigating multi-layered stakeholder relationships to deliver measurable commercial benefits. If you are a strong communicator with a continuous improvement mindset and a passion for customer obsession, this is your opportunity to shape our procurement strategy, champion our ethics and sustainability goals, and create the right conditions for everyone to achieve their potential. You will lead procurement sourcing activities, specifically focusing on: Construction, Engineering and elements of Facilities and Energy categories.
Responsibilities
- Partner with stakeholders to influence cost allocation, spend and supplier management, with a focus on reducing overall Goods Not For Resale (GNFR) expenditure and mitigating third-party risk for the Partnership.
- Deliver best value Procurement through leverage your sourcing and negotiation expertise to maximise value for the Partnership.
- Deliver value through effective source-to-contract activities.
- Engage diverse stakeholders, prioritise complex activities, and support strategic category planning.
- Negotiate commercial and contractual terms to deliver optimal benefits.
- Lead or support end-to-end tender activities.
- Facilitate key stakeholder and supplier meetings.
- Analyse data and review with stakeholders to identify and implement improvement opportunities.
- Develop and execute strategic category plans.
Requirements
- Skilled at sourcing and negotiation with significant commercial experience in a Procurement function or suitable equivalent.
- Good understanding of procurement process and systems.
- Category planning and sourcing strategy experience.
- Supplier management experience.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with a track record of building relationships internally and externally to drive the Procurement GNFR agenda.
- Ability to analyse data sets such as baseline spend and tender responses.
- Exposure to/ experience in reviewing and negotiating contracts.
Skills
- Commerciality
- Negotiation expertise
- Sourcing
- Category planning
- Supplier management
- Stakeholder management
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Customer obsession
- Data analysis
- Contract negotiation
Location
- London Central Office, 1 Drummond Gate, London, , SW1V 2QQ
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Senior
- Partnership Level 7
Education Level
- MCIPS qualified or working towards
Salary/Compensations
- £49,800 - £74,700
Benefits
- Night Premium at a rate of £5.25 per hour for time worked between 22:00 - 06:00
- Mentoring
- Opportunities to undertake professional training
- Networking
- Access to a range of projects and stakeholders
- Flexible working
About the Company
- We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose.
- We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world.
- We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify.
- Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.
- As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards.
- We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.
- We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong.
- Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE.
- Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.
- As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.
Equal Opportunity
- It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates).
- We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.
- We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.