Overview
Procurement Manager – Property – London, Greater London
Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.
Summary
Join us as a Procurement Category Manager – Property and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our stores. With responsibility for c£600m of annual spend, you’ll be a trusted commercial partner to our Property teams championing value, driving innovation and helping bring new and refreshed M&S stores to life.
Focussing on the Store Equipment category (c£70m), this role offers the opportunity to influence the supplier and procurement strategy, deliver meaningful commercial impact and contribute directly to a modern customer focused retail estate.
If you’re motivated by collaboration, empowered decision making and the chance to make a visible difference, this is your opportunity to shine.
All the details
What you’ll do
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Build strong genuine relationships across Property, Finance and Procurement to drive collaboration and shared success
- Develop and deliver procurement strategies across Store Equipment, Construction Fit Out and Professional Services to support our evolving Property agenda
- Bring fresh external market insights to shape forward thinking category plans aligned with the business strategy
- Lead end to end Source to Contract activities from strategy creation to market testing, negotiation and contract award
- Embed a proactive risk approach ensuring robust mitigation plans and promoting commercial benefits within budgeting processes
Who you are
Your skills will include:
- Proven commercial foresight and confident negotiation skills within Property or Retail Services categories
- Ability to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment across multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to influence and partner effectively with a wide range of business partners
- Strong understanding of Retail Store Equipment and its associated commercial models
- Adaptable communication style with the ability to tailor your message across audiences
- Strategic forward looking thinker with sound judgement and a focus on value innovation and supplier performance
What’s in it for you?
Working at M&S means being part of something bigger – helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.
Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:
- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you
Everyone’s welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
If you feel you’d benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
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