Procurement Manager - Cyber Technology

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 20% of base salary

25 days holiday + personal day

Private medical insurance

Generous parental leave

Job summary

Tesco is seeking a Procurement Category Manager to lead complex, high‑value technology categories within Corporate Services. You will partner with senior technology stakeholders, manage onshore and offshore teams, and drive value for money and efficient procurement across the lifecycle.

The role offers ownership, fast-paced delivery, and visibility to senior leadership, with opportunities to influence major technology decisions.

Qualifications

• Extensive Technology procurement experience with complex negotiations.
• Sourcing process excellence and supplier performance routines.
• Strong relationships with senior management and leadership teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead category strategy development across Software, Infrastructure, Cyber, Retail Tech, Telecoms or Data/AI.
• Translate category strategies into executable sourcing pipelines and supplier strategies.
• Deliver strategic sourcing events, commercial modelling and market assessments.
• Own strategic supplier relationships and drive performance and ESG alignment.

Job description

We are on the lookout for a Procurement Manager to join our Technology team within our Corporate Services function here at Tesco in the Cyber space. As a Procurement Category Manager, you will lead complex, high value categories and are responsible for designing and delivering category strategies, major sourcing activities, and supplier performance frameworks.

You will act as the primary commercial partner to senior technology stakeholders. You will be responsible for managing a team of procurement managers onshore & off-shore. You will focus on achieving value for money and improving efficiency throughout the procurement lifecycle. Working closely with colleagues, you will help shape a robust procurement strategy that balances business needs with safety, legal compliance, technology advancements, & total cost of ownership.

This offers full ownership, fast paced delivery, senior leader visibility, & the opportunity to influence major technology decisions.

The area that we are looking for when it comes to experience is as follows:

• Cyber Security & Engineering – Security platforms, SIEM, DevOps, and API/Integration tooling
  

About the role

We are on the lookout for a Procurement Manager to join our Technology team within our Corporate Services function here at Tesco in the Cyber space. As a Procurement Category Manager, you will lead complex, high value categories and are responsible for designing and delivering category strategies, major sourcing activities, and supplier performance frameworks.

You will act as the primary commercial partner to senior technology stakeholders. You will be responsible for managing a team of procurement managers onshore & off-shore. You will focus on achieving value for money and improving efficiency throughout the procurement lifecycle. Working closely with colleagues, you will help shape a robust procurement strategy that balances business needs with safety, legal compliance, technology advancements, & total cost of ownership.

This offers full ownership, fast paced delivery, senior leader visibility, & the opportunity to influence major technology decisions.

The area that we are looking for when it comes to experience is as follows:

• Cyber Security & Engineering – Security platforms, SIEM, DevOps, and API/Integration tooling
  

You will be responsible for

Category & Supplier Strategies:

• Lead category strategy development across Software, Infrastructure, Cyber, Retail Tech, Telecoms, or Data/AI & being able to translate category strategies into executable sourcing pipelines, supplier strategies, and commercial frameworks.
• Have experience of building credible relationships and influencing senior management & leadership teams.
• Support annual planning, budgeting, and forecasting for their category domain.
• Leading executive‑level reviews, performance forums and contractual escalations.

Commercial Excellence & Cost Optimisation:

• Deliver strategic sourcing events, commercial modelling, market assessments, and competitive negotiations.
• Lead full procurement process driving large scale negotiations, enterprise wide cost optimisation initiatives, and strategic supplier engagements. Including contracting.
• Leveraging data, benchmarking, total cost of ownership (TCO) modelling, usage/consumption analytics, and contract optimisation tools.
• Tracking and reporting savings, cost avoidance, efficiency gains, and commercial risk reductions across the portfolio.

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM):

• Owning strategic supplier relationships to drive performance, innovation, continuous improvement, and alignment to our ESG and digital strategies.
• Leading executive level reviews, performance forums and contractual escalations.
• Collaborate with Legal, Security and Compliance teams to ensure suppliers meet required standards, including cybersecurity, privacy, responsible AI, and ethical sourcing.
  

You will need

• Extensive amount of Technology procurement experience, including complex negotiation delivery and stakeholder management.
• Sourcing process excellence, negotiation, commercial analysis, supplier performance routines, tool proficiency (eSourcing, CLM, analytics).
• Have a proven record of accomplishment in delivering strategic technology sourcing projects.
• Have experience of building credible relationships and influencing senior management & leadership teams.
• Strong Project, Stakeholder & Programme management skills.
• Good reporting skills for projects, saving forecasting and governance reporting.
• Experience in category management and strategy development, including building multi-year technology category plans.
• Understanding of responsible procurement practices, sustainability frameworks, and ethical technology sourcing.
  

Whats in it for you?

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work.

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank Holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave(12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, plus 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, EAP, and mental wellbeing support

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