Procurement Lead

2 months ago

Bradford UK, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Morrisons Full time

The Marketing Procurement Lead role is responsible for Procurement of all Marketing requirements for Morrisons. Sub-categories include Media, Retail Media, Insight & Data, Creative, ‘Martech’, Print & Production, PR.


You will be a trusted asset to the Marketing function. You’ll utilise your Procurement experience and category-specific expertise to ensure best-practice category strategy, contracting and supplier relationship management (SRM), with a key role in supporting our competitive advantage and profitability by obtaining great value goods and services in line with business goals.

You will lead end-to-end initiatives, designing strategic and robust solutions to drive commercial benefit, sustainably.


Always acting as a trusted advisor to our five stakeholder groups, customers, colleagues, suppliers, shareholders and communities, you will build a pipeline for future improvements within the category.


Some of your responsibilities will include:


  • Building and maintaining a close, trusted business partnership with the Marketing function.
  • Line management of category specialist, with further responsibility for best-in-class delivery by various consultancies and intermediaries operating within the category.
  • Ensuring delivery of detailed, forward-looking 3-year category plans, which are co-created and agreed with stakeholders, aligned to the wider business objectives and regularly reviewed to respond to changing business needs and market opportunities.
  • Supporting stakeholders and our Supplier Managers with supplier relationship strategies, supporting strategic reviews and developing and maintaining joint supplier plans with stakeholders
  • Working actively to manage non-contractual spend throughout the stakeholder base and ensuring best practice through continued training and support
  • Positively influence policy and drive continuous improvement across the category
  • Demonstrate a positive attitude and inspire confidence in others around you when faced with uncertainty and change.


This is a hybrid role, operating over a four-and-a-half-day working week. This role is based at our fantastic head office in Bradford. Boasting an on-site restaurant, coffee shop, convenience and sample store, prayer room, free parking and regular company-wide events and promotions. Ideally, applicants will live within a reasonable distance of our office.


About You


We’ve built an incredibly diverse business, and we’re working hard to make sure we truly represent the communities we serve. One of the best things about working with so many different people is having the opportunity to listen, learn and connect with lots of different views, perspectives and beliefs. For this role, we’re looking for someone who has:

  • A customer-first mindset
  • Great leadership skills, with the ability to bring the best out of your team and the suppliers and agencies you are responsible for
  • External insight and category expertise in Marketing Procurement
  • Strong Strategic Procurement experience in implementing category management best practices and sourcing strategies
  • Proven negotiation capabilities within high-spend and complex relationships
  • The ability to drive positive and supportive relationships between teams, while maintaining healthy tension and challenging the status quo
  • Strong experience in working with and drafting complex contracts, in collaboration with Legal
  • The ability to embrace a fast-paced and ambiguous retail environment, taking the initiative to drive results at pace


About The Team


Our Procurement Department moves faster than most. They make sure we have what we need when we need it. Whether that's IT and tech equipment or energy, waste and recycling services, through to PPE and hand sanitiser to keep our people safe, plus extra delivery vans that help us serve more customers than ever.


It's their job to build strong relationships with suppliers so they can source everything we need to keep our stores, depots and manufacturing sites running. Which, in turn, helps keep prices low for our customers.


It all means that every £1 the team saves is equivalent to taking £50 through our checkouts. And with a £1.2 billion annual spend, you can feel the impact of Procurement right across our business.


About The Company


Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.


Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.


We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.

Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you…


Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;

  • 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family members (subject to fair usage)
  • Generous holiday entitlement
  • 4 and a half day working week with flexible working hours
  • Company pension contributions
  • Perks with over 850 retailers
  • Free parking onsite
  • A range of family friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave

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