Senior Procurement Manager

• Able to drive their own and their teams productivity within our new ways of working/structure
• Able to think about the Procurement team as “one” and can provide clear direction on how they will achieve this
• Able to manage a team through change and has demonstrable examples of how they have previously realised this

• Implement the Procurement strategy for the required focus areas to meet business requirements, this must align with the overall Procurement Strategy to establish a business partnership model across the functions
• Creation and delivery of Procurement strategies and targets for the focus areas
• To support the Head of Procurement on the implementation and development of procurement policies and system strategies
• Conducting tendering, contract management, spend analytics and supplier performance management for your own strategic spend areas and support your team in delivering the same.
• Engagement with all required Selfridges functions to ensure that all contracts have suitable cover and protection, meet the requirements of the business and deliver expected value
• Implementation and streamlining of processes across the business to ensure activity is adding value, and underpinning compliance and controls.
• Identification and realisation and reporting of cost-saving and waste-reduction opportunities, including managing demand to identify cost actions
• Managing your team to deliver an effective service to the business
• Supporting the Head of Procurement to ensure companywide purchasing requirements and contract management solutions for all areas are managed in a clear concise manner, which demonstrate financial and operational benefits and value.
• Conduct/support senior level negotiations and implement appropriate tactics to achieve a favourable outcome
• Commission, execute and deliver, high level procurement projects to agreed timelines and objectives
• Responsible for conducting and leading regular reviews of the spend categories through benchmarking, rationalisation and aggregation opportunities
• Define and Implement the Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) strategy for key suppliers including string Service Level Agreements with consequences for non performance. This should be facilitated by working with the business owners to define and agree appropriate supplier performance measures. Ensuring you agree and implement appropriate meeting schedules for Selfridges and the Suppliers

• Identify, develop and expand relationships with key stakeholders to meet business needs
• Where appropriate agree a formal engagement plan with key stakeholders to ensure that procurement is at the heart of the business decision making process
• Provide a point of escalation for key contacts to ensure your focus areas are meeting the timelines and targets agreed with the business
• Provide a single point of contact for customers on all procurement related matters becoming the trusted advisor for the category
• Train and educate customers on the procurement process and policy to increase and maintain adoption

• Responsible for creating and leading a high performing Procurement team, to ensure delivery of effective service across the whole business
• Effectively manage your team's workload to deliver against deadlines, adopting an agile approach working with the Head of Procurement to ensure the most impactful opportunities are delivered no matter which spend area they sit in
• Encourage and motivate team members to 'work as one' on procurement activity, to deliver a seamless service to internal customers
• Ensuring adherence of departmental and company procurement procedures and policies
• Effectively manage the relationship with the Finance team on budgets, cost saving, consumption and spend reduction targets/reports
• Ensure that your team expertise is created/trained and maintained

• Proven track record of delivery in Procurement in retail or a similar fast paced service environment.
• Experience to cover several areas of spend
• Proven track record of Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
• Strong stakeholder management
• Experienced people manager
• Strong influencer
• Effective supplier performance manager
• Senior level negotiator of contracts with program and project management experience
• Proven success of purchasing for internal customers

• Excellent negotiator
• Deep understanding of Procurement and Supplier Relationship Management best practice
• Essential deep knowledge of Microsoft MS Excel and other MS Office applications (i.e. Word, PowerPoint)
• Creating and managing complex tender and benchmarking exercises
• Able to create appropriate commercial models to suit requirements in the category
• Experienced in drafting and interpretation of contracts and clauses, in depth understanding of Contracts
• CIPS an advantage

• Excellent negotiation skills
• Excellent communication, reporting and interpersonal skills including the ability to confidently engage with all levels within the business, up to and including C-Suite
• Analytical skills
• Planning and organising skills
• Customer service skills
• Coaching and influencing
• Highly team oriented
• Problem solving and an ability to focus on multiple projects
• Numerate

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