Procurement Lead

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About Us

Ocado Group is a technology-led, global, software and robotics platform business, with a strong retail heritage. Ocado has been at the forefront of innovation in the online grocery industry since it was founded in 2000. Its retail business, Ocado.com, is one of the world’s largest online-only supermarkets with over £2,2bn annual revenue and over 795,000 active customers.

About the Role

The Procurement Lead will have primary responsibility for Ocado’s Corporate Services Procurement activity across around £75m annual spend.

Key Responsibilities:

Business Partnering

• Business Partner department heads and budget owners, becoming embedded within leadership teams
• Act as a ‘Critical Friend’ for key business owners, providing support and education in managing key supply partner relationships
• Be a vocal and compelling advocate for the value of quality procurement and supplier partnerships

Leadership

• Deputise for the Head of Indirect Procurement
• Establish a Strategic Sourcing methodology for all Indirect Procurement, aligned to Group policies
• Devise and lead a series of continuous improvement activities within indirect procurement
• Provide SME input to the Procurement Transformation programme, and participate in ongoing best practice sharing and collaboration initiatives across the procurement teams
• Mentor more junior members of the procurement team
• Possible line management as Indirect Procurement is formalised within Ocado

Execution

• Deliver outstanding ‘Total Procurement Benefit’ for Ocado across Cost, Risk, Quality, ESG and Innovation, role modeling excellent delivery for the team
• Lead high value, high importance supplier negotiations in the category space to deliver great value for money, win:win engagements and outcomes with partners
• Be a key escalation point for supplier performance management

Category Management

• Use expert knowledge of the Professional Services and Consulting categories to deliver step change improvements in the way we engage, contract and manage partners in that space
• Embed a Category Management approach to procurement across the Corporate Services categories

Supplier Partnerships

• Utilise expert influencing skills to secure preferential engagements with strategic partners
• Lead the Indirect Procurement SRM programme, ensuring our supply partnerships are effectively managed and successful

About you

• Extensive Procurement experience in category management, strategic sourcing, SRM and contract management 
• Deep category expertise in the Professional Services and Consultancy verticals
• Brilliant business partnering and influencing capabilities, able to speak and operate in non-procurement terms to truly understand and unlock value
• Expert negotiator, adept at driving win:win outcomes with suppliers
• Robust analytical experience, having leveraged multiple sources of data to inform strategies, recommendations and decision making 

What we offer

We believe in supporting our people with meaningful, flexible benefits that prioritise well-being and work-life balance. Here’s a snapshot of what you can expect:

• Time to recharge:
  25 days annual leave (rising to 27 after 5 years), plus the option to buy more – and 30 days a year to work from anywhere in the world.
  
  
• Health & wellbeing:
  Private Medical Insurance from your first month, wellbeing support through specialist apps and EAP, plus Income Protection and Life Assurance.
  
  
• Family-first policies:
  22 weeks paid maternity/primary carer leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (after qualifying period).
  
  
• Financial support:
  Pension with employer matching up to 7%, share schemes (Sharesave & BAYE), and interest-free loans for train tickets.
  
  
• Commuter perks:
  Cycle to Work Scheme and free shuttle buses to/from Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City stations.
  
  
• Exclusive discounts:
  15% off at Ocado.com with free delivery (starting in your first month).

Ocado Group is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, age, or disability or union membership status.

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