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Join our central Procurement team and be at the forefront of Asda's transformation strategy, aiming to secure our position as the #2 grocer and contribute to our Every Day Low-Cost culture. We're revolutionizing our procurement processes, placing it at the core of decision-making, with significant investment and under the leadership of our new CPO, Jim Townsend.

As part of this transformation journey, we are excited to announce over 20 new roles. These roles cover multiple levels and all categories, alongside building a brand new ‘agile procurement’ team focused on major business change and investments, developing our Centre of Excellence, and in helping us to deliver the Procurement Transformation itself.

“Everything about Asda”

We're a values-led organisation – that means encouraging everyone to be open and honest. And working creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business, and our belief in empowering every colleague means there's no end of opportunities here.

With a turnover of over £20billion every year, over 2 million transactions every month, and around 141,000 dedicated Asda colleagues taking care of our customers every day, we're really a place that's got everything – for our customers and your career.

Your Role

Category team - You’ll likely have responsibility for end-to-end sourcing activity along with setting the category strategy. You'll also influence and partner your category stakeholders to help deliver our transformation activity, and help ensure a best in class cost base.

Agile team – You’ll lead on a variety of major business investments, executive priorities and transformation programmes. A more project lead role delivering some of our largest and most impactful activity

CoE – You’ll help deliver our cost and cash programme, develop our expertise across all categories, build the long term roadmap, and leverage data and analytics to provide insight across the teams.

Transformation – You’ll help deliver the overall procurement transformation, including embedding new ways or working both within the procurement team and in the ASDA business itself. This team will also lead the procurement technology roadmap, define processes, set standards

Your Role

• Manage end-to-end sourcing activities and develop category strategies.
• Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to support transformation initiatives and maintain a competitive cost base.
• Lead on major business investments and executive priorities within the function.
• Contribute to our cost and cash programme, leveraging data and analytics in the Centre of Excellence.
• Drive the procurement transformation, setting new standards and defining the procurement technology roadmap.
• Desirable experience of print, point of sale, paper, instore marketing and design, and PR

“Let's find out about you”

• Proven experience in Procurement/Category Management.
• Open to individuals seeking to switch categories or with detailed knowledge of their current category market.
• Skilled in crafting and managing complex contracts.
• Adept at balancing and anticipating the needs of various stakeholders.
• Experience in influencing senior levels within a large organisation.
• Agile and adaptable to support business needs in a dynamic transformation environment.

“Everything you'll love ”

• Hybrid and flexible working – Everyone's looking for that work/life balance and, at Asda, we have it on point. With 3 days office working.
• Discretionary bonus – Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts.
• Company matched pension matched to X% – Looking forward to the future.
• 25 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for yourself, to switch off and recharge.
• 4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year
• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – We genuinely care at Asda. That's why we're creating a culture where our people can perform at their best, and feel their best. Because your physical health and mental wellbeing is just as important to us.
• Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - Extra discounts running throughout the year really makes a difference, saving our colleagues an average of £700 a year.
• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - We want our colleagues to thrive, and grow as our business does. (Link to grad scheme on Asda page). We also support colleagues through professional qualifications such as CIPS
• Free city centre parking – You can also use it outside working hours!

“Find your everything at Asda” - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach.

We're passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, which means creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.

Work Where it Works

Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to chose where you’ll be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including;-