Procurement Transformation Manager

Procurement Transformation Manager

Apply locations: Asda House

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted 5 Days Ago

Job Requisition ID: R-027520

Job Title

Procurement Transformation Manager

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

Category

Purchasing/Procurement

Closing Date

5 December 2024

We’re transforming the way procurement works here at Asda. What does that mean for you? That you’ll be at the heart of decision-making and the forefront of our transformation journey.

Our growing team manages over £2.5 billion of indirect/goods not for resale spend, and is on a journey to become a best in class function, with a broad agenda across all areas of procurement from sourcing and cost transformation, through to sustainability and management of some of our most strategic relationships.

With opportunities to join us across multiple levels and all categories including Technology, Marketing, Professional Services, Logistics – Supply Chain, and Energy, you’ll support a range of commercial activities, dare to find new innovative ways to drive efficiency, and help us get that #2 share in Grocery. So we can offer our customers the best value possible. That’s what it means to put customers at the heart of everything.

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 cost transformation activity, and help ensure a best in class cost base.
• Strategic Projects / Agile team – You’ll lead on a variety of major business investments, executive priorities and cost transformation programmes; delivering some of our largest and most impactful activity.
• Programme – 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 of working both within the procurement team and in the ASDA business itself. This team will also lead the procurement technology roadmap, define processes, and set standards.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop and embed the new procurement operating model.
• Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to support transformation initiatives and maintain a competitive cost base.
• Lead on critical priorities within the function.
• Drive the procurement transformation, setting new standards and defining the procurement technology roadmap.

Your Profile

• 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.

Benefits

• Cash car allowance – £5.7k or an electric vehicle.
• 25 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for yourself, to switch off and recharge.
• Private healthcare – either individual or family.
• 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.
• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - We want our colleagues to thrive, and grow as our business does.
• Support for professional qualifications such as CIPS
• Free city centre parking – You can also use it outside working hours.

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Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to choose 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.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.