Procurement Manager

Job Description

Job Req ID: 59625

About the role

This role is critical to shaping and delivering BT’s procurement strategy within the Network Category, ensuring the organisation achieves sustainable value, cost efficiency, and strategic advantage.
As a Procurement Manager, you will lead the execution of category management and strategic sourcing activities, driving best-in-class procurement practices across the business. This includes developing and implementing robust procurement frameworks, policies, and processes that ensure consistency, compliance, and operational excellence.

You will play a key role in building strong, collaborative relationships with both internal stakeholders and strategic suppliers, enabling effective decision-making and unlocking innovation and value. Through your expertise and leadership, you will help strengthen procurement capability across the organisation, supporting the delivery of key business and transformation objectives.
Ultimately, this role contributes to maximising commercial outcomes, managing risk, and ensuring BT remains competitive in a dynamic and evolving market.

What you’ll be doing

Strategic

• Accountable for developing and delivering the savings pipeline, category strategies, and sourcing plans through effective planning and execution of sourcing, supplier, and risk management activities.
• Build and maintain deep category expertise, applying best practices across sourcing approaches, supplier selection, total cost of ownership (TCO), and negotiation strategies.

Operational

• Identify and deliver business improvements by leveraging commercial, design, and process levers to minimise total cost of ownership.
• Collaborate with procurement colleagues, technical teams to execute category plans and sourcing activities, ensuring delivery against key performance metrics and alignment across business units.
• Ensure adherence to procurement policies, processes, and governance frameworks.
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to support business objectives and drive key delivery and transformation programmes.

Key Activities

• Manage and optimise category spend and performance, developing and delivering category strategies that drive long-term value and continuous improvement.
• Lead and deliver end-to-end sourcing projects, including complex commercial negotiations and contractual arrangements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed and implement category strategies across all levels of the organisation.
• Build and maintain strong internal and external relationships to secure alignment, drive engagement, and support delivery aligned to BT’s values.
• Manage key supplier relationships, negotiating commercial and contractual terms to ensure performance, compliance, and continuous innovation.
• Provide effective business partnering support across all business units, enabling informed decision-making and value delivery.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Strategic Procurement and Sourcing Expertise: Demonstrated experience leading strategic procurement activities, with a strong ability to design and execute sourcing strategies that deliver sustainable value, cost efficiencies, and effective risk management.
• Software Sourcing and Licensing Knowledge: Strong background in software procurement, including a deep understanding of complex licensing models, commercial structures, and supplier dynamics, enabling informed decision-making and optimisation of total cost of ownership.
• Category Strategy Development: Proven ability to develop, implement, and continuously evolve category strategies that align to business objectives, drive performance, and embed best-in-class procurement practices across the organisation.
• Commercial Negotiation and Contract Management: Solid track record of leading complex commercial negotiations, confidently managing contractual terms, and securing outcomes that balance business needs, supplier performance, and long-term value creation.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Senior Stakeholder Engagement and Influencing: Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships at Director and SMT level, confidently engaging, influencing, and driving outcomes across a complex, matrix organisation.
• Communication and Presentation Excellence: Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex ideas, deliver impactful presentations, and support effective decision-making at senior levels.
• Performance Delivery and Decision-Making: Demonstrated track record of sound commercial judgement and consistent delivery against defined performance metrics, ensuring high-quality outcomes in fast-paced environments.

Our Package

• 10% on target bonus
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays and an opportunity to buy up to five more days every year
• Hybrid working, with state-of-the-art offices within Canal Plaza
• BT Sourced Pension Scheme - 6% BT contributions
• Life Assurance from 1st day of employment - 4x salary
• We provide healthcare cover and permanent health insurance (income continuance)
• Access to excellent training tools, programmes and communities to help you connect, learn and grow.
• And we like it when our people do good things so there will be the opportunity to take time off for volunteering and we'll help with your fundraising too.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.