Procurement Manager - Networks

Job Req ID: 62745

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About the role

This role is critical to shaping and delivering BT’s procurement strategy within the Network Category, with responsibility for leading the Fixed Core Network category and 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 and processes that ensure consistency, compliance, and operational excellence.

You will play a key role in building strong, collaborative relationships with 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.

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 and 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

• Procurement and Strategic Sourcing Experience: A minimum of seven years’ experience within a procurement environment, with strong sourcing capability and experience working effectively within high-performing teams.
• Category Management Expertise: Strong category management experience, including knowledge of supplier capabilities, commercial models, product lifecycles, software licensing, and support and maintenance services.
• Commercial and Strategic Delivery: Proven ability to manage complex commercial and strategic requirements, delivering projects to a high standard while balancing business and supplier priorities.
• Senior Stakeholder Management: Strong stakeholder management and influencing experience, with the ability to engage effectively at Senior Manager, Director, Managing Director and SMT level.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Supplier Relationship Management and Business Partnering: Experience of developing effective supplier relationships and partnering with the business to drive collaboration and value creation.
• Communication and Presentation Skills: Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex information and support effective decision-making.
• Performance Delivery and Decision-Making: A proven track record of sound decision-making and consistent delivery against defined performance metrics.
• Continuous Improvement: A continuous improvement mindset, proactively identifying opportunities to enhance processes and exceed performance expectations.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

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.