About the Role
Ready to fast-track your procurement career? Step into a true greenfield environment for more ownership, more exposure, and more impact! This isn't a back-office role. It's a career accelerator. If you're a driven procurement professional in the first 2-4 years into your Procurement career (either directs or indirects it doesn't matter), and you're hungry for more ownership, more exposure, and more impact - this is the opportunity where you won't just support procurement transformation… you'll help build it.
**There are a number of roles in the wider campaign across Group Procurement, so even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply to discuss further!**
There will be the creation of something ambitious. That means fresh thinking, new processes, smarter analytics, stronger supplier partnerships - and room for you to make your mark early.
This Role: This is a rare opportunity to join a procurement function in growth mode - shaping frameworks, influencing stakeholders, and driving measurable performance improvements across the business.
You'll work closely with Category Managers and senior procurement leaders, gaining exposure well beyond your experience level. Expect to:
Lead sourcing projects (across IT and non-tech (eg Marketing, HR, FM, Property)
Drive spend analytics and performance insights
Influence supplier strategies
Build category tools and templates
Develop commercial acumen fast
If you want to move from "supporting procurement" to being a procurement leader in the making, this is your next step.
What You'll Be Doing
You'll combine analytics, commercial thinking and stakeholder engagement to deliver real results:
Lead mid-value sourcing events and RFx processes
Analyse spend data and procurement performance to uncover opportunities
Maintain cost models, market indices and analytics dashboards
Generate market insights and supplier benchmarks
Conduct supplier and market analysis to support category strategies
Create performance reports and purchasing trend analysis
Improve tools, templates and processes to drive efficiency
Support supplier engagement and contract management activities
You won't just run reports - you'll turn insight into action.
What We're Looking For
You're likely 2-4 years into your procurement career and ready for bigger challenges.
You'll bring:
Strong negotiation and stakeholder communication skills
Passionate about working in an ambitious, changeable, people focussed business
Confident communicator with an engaging personality and an inquisitive nature
Strong analytical skills and confidence working with large data sets and extracting insights from procurement data
Knowledge of sourcing principles and supplier management
Advanced Excel skills
Able to work autonomously
Degree educated
Most importantly, you're proactive, curious, and ambitious. You want to grow - fast.
What You'll Gain
Exposure to senior procurement leadership
Ownership of sourcing activity and supplier engagement
Real influence in a growing, evolving procurement function
Accelerated development in analytics, commercial strategy and stakeholder management
A culture that values initiative, collaboration and bold thinking
This is a place where early-career professionals can step up quickly - where performance is noticed and progression is earned.
Tech Stack
spend analyticssourcingsupplier managementnegotiationstakeholder communicationexcel