Procurement Category Manager - Strategic Projects

at  ASDA

Leeds LS11 5AD, , United Kingdom -

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Immediate23 Jan, 2025Not Specified24 Oct, 2024N/AGood communication skillsNoNo
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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

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 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

  • Manage end-to-end sourcing activities for strategic and business critical projects across multiple categories
  • Influence and collaborate with stakeholders up to VP (Vice President) level to support transformation initiatives and maintain a competitive cost base.
  • Lead on major business investments and executive priorities
  • Build and maintain a pipeline of delivery opportunties
  • Contribute to our cost and cash programme, leveraging data and analytics in the Centre of Excellence.

“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 ”

  • 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. Because your physical health and mental wellbeing is just as important to us.
  • 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!

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REQUIREMENT SUMMARY

Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)

Logistics/Procurement

Purchase / Logistics / Supply Chain

Supply Chain Management

Graduate

Proficient

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Leeds LS11 5AD, United Kingdom