Description:
The team is accountable for delivering against category strategy and act as the business partner to key stakeholders and suppliers. The team is responsible for setting the agenda for strategic sourcing and drive innovation opportunities to constantly manage spend and realise more value for BT.
The Manager is responsible for driving and delivering the procurement plan and activities in BT’s Professional Services Category Management, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Business Partnering practice. This role develops and implements procurement frameworks, policies and procedures. This role holds strong relationships with key suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure procurement competency and continuous value delivery.
What’s in it for you? What are the benefits?
Here at BT Ireland, our purpose is to Connect For Good and to have a positive impact on people, planet and society. We’re very proud of our accreditations as a Healthy Place To Work (Great Place To Work Institute) and as a Responsible Business leader (Business in the Community/NSAI).
One of our highest priorities is being a diverse, equitable and inclusion organisation, and our aim is to foster a sense of belonging among employees and to support everyone to reach their potential with us.
Other great benefits include:
- The opportunity to have access to your leadership team. They are based on site.
- The opportunity to have scope and impact on what you do and to shape the culture of the team.
- Encouragement of Flexible working – locations and hours of work
- BT Ireland Pension Scheme – 5% BT contributions
- Life Assurance from 1st day of employment – 4x salary
- We provide healthcare cover & permanent health insurance (income continuance)
- You’ll have the opportunity to buy BT shares
- Access to excellent training tools, programmes and communities to help you connect, learn and grow.
- 22 days annual leave (rising to 25 days with length of service) + bank holidays and an opportunity to buy up to five more days every year
What will the role involve? Typical duties include;
- Manage and deliver category spend and performance, develop and deliver category plan and long term values, implement business improvements through optimising commercial, design and process levers that minimise the Total Cost of Ownership
- Drive and deliver end-to-end sourcing projects including complex contractual and pricing models
- Develop and deliver policies and frameworks underpin products and service delivery
- Collaborate with regional category teams, and ensure category plan implementation at a regional level
- Maintain internal and external networks, to ensure buy in and improvements of customer value and Total Cost of Ownership
- Manage relationships with key suppliers, negotiate commercial and contractual arrangements utilising the latest contracting tools, templates and terms and conditions, ensure required performance and contractual obligations are met, while incorporating innovative improvement initiatives
- Deliver business partnering services to key Customer and Business Units
What are we looking for in our Procurement Manager? You may have a variety of the below;
- Relevant experience as a leader within the Procurement function, with strong leadership skills and the ability to collaborate and deliver through high performance teams
- Strong business expertise in relevant category, particularly around supplier capabilities, commercial models, product lifecycles and partner programmes required to deliver portfolio and customer requirements
- Ability to manage complex, strategic and commercial requirements between BT and Suppliers, deliver projects and results on time and in full
- Experience in business partnering and supplier relationship management
- Demonstrates strong continuous improvement skills that exceeds customer expectations