Procurement Manager - Couriers
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2024 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/11868706/884958 |
Summary
About the role
Specialising in Logistics procurement, you will deliver strategic development, planning and sourcing initiatives, which drives value for money and efficiencies throughout the procurement lifecycle.
We are looking for a confident and articulate Procurement professional to join our team at Tesco. The ability to work with various colleagues and negotiate with suppliers are key experiences required for this role. Experience in logistics procurement and managing complex multi-million pound tenders is also essential.
You will be responsible for
- Delivering high savings targets through implementation of robust sourcing events, ensuring that suppliers meet all operational requirements whilst providing the best value for Tesco.
- Through influence and challenge develop strong working relationships with colleagues to support, endorse and deliver sub category plans aligned to category procurement strategies to realise business savings and support innovation.
- Build and deliver sub category plans aligned to Category Plans by being innovative and collaborative with various cross functional colleagues.
- Consistently track and report on savings targets for specified sub-categories using the agreed process.
- Using good judgement build new, and develop existing supplier relationships to ensure continued suitability and create greater value across the organisation.
You will need
- Experience of managing logistics category within large scale organisation is crucial
- Experience in final mile, e-commerce and couriers would be advantageous
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills
- Capability to lead complex projects, and experience leading extensive multi-million pound sourcing events
- Great supplier relationship and performance management skills
What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
- Private medical insurance
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
- A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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