Senior Procurement Excellence Manager

Sainsbury's Limited; City Of London; Ibrido; GBP 60.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Colleague discount 10%

Discount up to 15% at points during yr

Pensions and life cover

Performance-related bonus up to 20% of

Annual holiday allowance + buy extra 1

Descrizione del lavoro

Sainsbury's is seeking a procurement professional to lead and govern end-to-end procurement processes across a major function. You will drive large-scale transformation, ensuring compliant, value-driven delivery while engaging senior stakeholders and leveraging digital technologies to improve outcomes.

Based in the UK, the role offers hybrid working with 1–2 days on-site and the remainder from home, across London, Coventry or Manchester, and focuses on sustainable, scalable procurement

Competenze

• Proven experience designing, implementing and maintaining end-to-end procurement process and governance frameworks across a leading Procurement function and complex supply base.
• Delivery of large-scale, complex procurement or business transformation projects, translating business requirements into practical solutions and measurable improvements.
• Influencing senior stakeholders, challenging assumptions and advising on decisions that affect procurement and wider business priorities.
• Practical experience using digital tools, data or technology to improve procurement operations, compliance, quality or scalability.

Mansioni

• Design and maintain end-to-end procurement process and governance frameworks.
• Lead large-scale procurement or transformation projects and translate requirements into practical improvements.
• Influence senior stakeholders and ensure alignment with procurement priorities.
• Leverage digital tools and data to improve procurement operations and compliance.

Descrizione del lavoro

This role can be based from any of our Store Support Centres in London, Coventry or Manchester, 1-2 days per week on average, with the rest of your time working from home.

Why join us

This is a specialist role at the heart of an award-winning Procurement team. Acting as the engine room for the function, Procurement Excellence brings strategy to life through people, process and technology. You'll have the opportunity to shape how Procurement operates, connect strategy with delivery and accelerate performance with digital and AI technologies.

What you'll do

You'll play a pivotal role alongside our Head of Procurement Strategy & Operations, developing and maintaining end-to-end process and governance frameworks across Procurement & Supplier Management. A central challenge will be landing change across Procurement, helping the team to understand "why" and "how" to put it into practice. You'll lead large-scale, complex projects; connect teams and senior stakeholders; advance sustainability and third-party risk priorities; and drive performance through supplier management. As a trusted strategic adviser, you'll challenge assumptions, influence decisions and translate business requirements into practical solutions that improve performance.

Who you are

You're a seasoned procurement professional with a proven track record of driving procurement excellence through clear strategy, disciplined policy and process governance, and project leadership. Your expertise in shaping and embedding enterprise-wide frameworks, particularly in sourcing, risk management, and sustainability, showcases your ability to deliver step-change improvements and ensure compliance and quality across the function. Operating confidently at senior levels, you excel in influencing stakeholders, translating strategy into practical solutions, and championing digital enablement to enhance procurement operations efficiently and at scale.

Essential criteria

• Proven experience designing, implementing and maintaining end-to-end procurement process and governance frameworks across a leading Procurement function and complex supply base.
• Demonstrable delivery of large-scale, complex procurement or business transformation projects, translating business requirements into practical solutions and measurable improvements.
• Experience of influencing senior stakeholders, challenging assumptions and advising on decisions that affect procurement and wider business priorities.
• Practical experience using digital tools, data or technology to improve procurement operations, compliance, quality or scalability.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you'll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there's always the chance to try something new - whether that's as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we'll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to GBP10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave.

Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).