Procurement Manager

The role

To support the business in effective sourcing of key external supply partners across all categories of indirect goods and services for the boohoo Group. Ensuring costs are managed in line with financial budgets and savings targets, best value for money is achieved, innovation and continuous improvement is maximised and risk is minimised across all categories. Primarily Manchester based however, depending on the project; occasional travel to the UK DC’s may be required.

Your team

In Procurement, we’re behind every purchase the Group makes, including our latest brand acquisitions! There’s no limit to the impact we can have – our mission is to find quality suppliers and achieve value for money. We’re the go-to team for the entire Group, ensuring that achieving quality and maximising the P&L drives every decision we make.

What you'll be doing

• Relationship management of key suppliers to ensure consistently high service levels are achieved and to drive continuous improvement and minimise risk.
• Form excellent relationships with internal budget-holders and stake-holders. Ensuring that projects are well defined and business cases are fully approved prior to sourcing activity being undertaken.
• Work with the Head of Procurement & Internal Stakeholders to formulate and successfully implement category strategy plans to support cost reviews across multiple areas in the business, specifically consumables, packaging and professional services. Experience in other categories is also desirable.
• Managing the commercial relationships with both new and incumbent suppliers, to ensure contracts and commercial arrangements are competitively priced and robust from a risk and governance perspective, legally robust and that service levels are established, monitored and exceeded by our suppliers.
• Supporting the Head of Procurement & Internal stakeholders in formal sourcing and contract review processes as well as in-contract commercial and contract negotiations across the category(s).
• Regularly research alternative suppliers and the wider markets to ensure ongoing best practice is driven into our services.
• Preparation of monthly reports and updates for the Head of Procurement for presentation to the Board & Internal Directors.

Working with us

To succeed here, you must love working at pace. It’s relentless, but we love it. Change is a certainty – you need to adapt and be agile. We want you to challenge the status quo, innovate and be open to trying new things. We’re always pushing boundaries. We empower our people, giving them freedom and autonomy to learn and grow in their roles. We’re passionate, agile, creative and one team.

More about you

Essential:

• Robust knowledge and experience of the consumables, packaging and professional services
• A proven record of achieving cost savings through negotiation/operational change
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Excel skills and ability to analyse spend information/invoices and produce cost models/comparisons
• Target-focussed with the ability to work quickly when required
• Decision making and problem solving skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent forward planning and organisation skills
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Communication, networking and interpersonal relationship skills
• Can use initiative when necessary and work well in a team
• Rapid Problem-solving
• Commercial and financial acumen and awareness of the market
• Driven with the ability to stay calm under pressure and multitask

Desired (But not essential)

• Procurement qualification (CIPS/Degree level)
• Project management skills

Why join us

We’ve set our sights on dominating the global e-commerce fashion market, and because we’re 13 brands (and counting), there are plenty of opportunities to grow your career. Our mission is to create a workplace where everyone is respected, their individual differences are valued, and they can be themselves at work without exception.

• You’ll get the opportunity to take part in our various share schemes
• Free on-site gym with daily classes
• Core hours enable you to flex your working times around your needs on an ad hoc basis
• Benefits that support your health and wellbeing
• There’s up to 40% discount off our all of our brands including: boohoo, boohooMAN, PLT, Nasty Gal, Coast, Warehouse, Misspap)
• Monthly social events
• With HQs in Manchester and London and offices across the globe, we offer a buzzing atmosphere and the boohoo family culture wherever you work

Find out more about the role & business here: https://careers.boohoogroup.com/

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