Lead Procurement Programme Manager

at  ASDA

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 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

• Lead our cost optimisation strategy, and collaborative planning process, with senior stakeholders across all categories
• Lead our cost and cash programme, leveraging data and analytics in the Centre of Excellence.
• Review & provide insights on E2E team activity
• Develop and embed the new procurement operating model
• Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to support transformation initiatives and maintain a competitive cost base.

“Let’s find out about you”

• Project / Programme management experience, in a commercial / finance setting.
• Experience in Procurement/Category Management is desirable.
• 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.
• Open to individuals from Finance, Commercial, Procurement, Project/Programme management backgrounds