Procurement Buyer Marketing & Corporate Services
at ASDA
Leeds LS11 5AD, , United Kingdom -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 02 Feb, 2025 | Not Specified | 03 Nov, 2024 | N/A | Good communication skills | No | No |
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Description:
“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
Responsibilities:
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.
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Logistics/Procurement
Purchase / Logistics / Supply Chain
Logistics
Graduate
Proficient
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Leeds LS11 5AD, United Kingdom