Procurement Strategy & Delivery Manager

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 20%

25 days holiday + personal day

Private medical insurance

Maternity & adoption leave

24/7 virtual GP & EAP

Mental wellbeing support

Job summary

Tesco invites a Procurement Strategy & Delivery Manager to help shape and deliver our Sourcing & Procurement strategy. You will lead strategic initiatives, governance, and cross-functional delivery with procurement, technology, finance, and legal partners to drive value and savings.

You’ll work with category teams, create executive-level reporting, and facilitate workshops to align plans and manage dependencies.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering strategic procurement programmes.
• Strong governance and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Experience translating data into actionable insights.
• Excellent communication and executive-level reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of strategic procurement initiatives with on-time, within-scope outcomes.
• Partner with category teams to support savings delivery and strategy execution.
• Drive procurement technology adoption across sourcing, contracts, and analytics.
• Establish governance, reporting and tracking for progress, risks and benefits.
• Produce insights and executive-ready updates for leadership.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder forums; coordinate across functions.
• Identify process improvements and support change management and training.

Skills

Project management

Governance

Stakeholder management

Senior leadership engagement

Data analysis

Communication & presentation

Procurement processes

Technology-enabled transformation

Tools

Procurement systems

Digital tools

Job description

About the role

Reporting to the Lead Procurement Strategy & Transformation Manager, the Procurement Strategy & Delivery Manager plays a key role in delivering the Sourcing & Procurement strategy through effective project delivery, governance, stakeholder engagement and business transformation. Working closely with Procurement category teams, the Procurement Leadership Team and cross-functional partners, you will lead and support strategic initiatives that improve performance, capability and business value. This could include driving our savings/value delivery programme, supporting category strategy development, implementing procurement technology solutions, and delivering process and capability improvements across the function.

You will be responsible for

• Lead the delivery of strategic procurement initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope and with measurable business outcomes.
• Partner with Procurement category teams to support key priorities, including savings delivery, benefit realisation and category strategy execution.
• Drive the implementation, optimisation and adoption of procurement technology and digital solutions, such as sourcing, contract management, projects and analytics tools.
• Establish and maintain governance, reporting and performance tracking to provide clear visibility of progress, risks and outcomes.
• Produce high-quality insights, reporting and presentations to present recommendations and updates to both the Procurement Leadership team and senior business stakeholders for key priorities, such as driving the delivery and tracking of Procurement savings and benefit realisation, against our targets.
• Facilitate workshops, project meetings and stakeholder forums to align plans, manage dependencies and drive delivery. Coordinating activity across Procurement, Technology, Finance, Legal, Capability and other business functions to ensure successful delivery of strategic priorities and transformation initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve procurement processes, ways of working and colleague capability. Including delivery of training programmes and skills frameworks. Supporting change management, communications, training and engagement activities to maximise adoption and business value.

You will need

• Strong project management, governance and stakeholder management skills, within transformation programmes and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience of working with senior leaders to deliver business change, including communication and training plans.
• Ability to analyse data, track benefits and translate insights into clear recommendations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience producing executive-level reporting.
• Understanding of procurement, sourcing, supplier management or commercial processes.
• Experience supporting technology-enabled transformation, including procurement systems and digital tools.
• Organised, proactive and delivery-focused, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and drive outcomes.

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, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), and access to mental wellbeing support

About Us

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