Supplier Relationship Procurement Manager

Job Req ID: 60174

Location: This role can be based at either Bristol, Birmingham or Milton Keynes following a hybrid working pattern of three days a week in the office and two days a week working from home.

About the role

As a Supplier Relationship Procurement Manager, you will own and grow long-term supplier partnerships across EE Consumer's direct-to-customer portfolio—covering a mix of products and services such as handsets, laptops, TVs, consoles, trade-in, insurance, and related services. You'll manage the end-to-end commercial relationship beyond contract signature, ensuring trading terms, promotional activity, and supplier performance deliver the right outcomes for customers and the business.

Working closely with internal stakeholders—including Partnerships, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain—you'll bring strong commercial judgement, a data-driven mindset, and excellent relationship management to align plans, resolve issues, and continuously improve how we work with our key vendors.

What you’ll be doing

• Driving and delivering the procurement plan and activities in BT’s Category Management, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement. Developing and implementing procurement frameworks, policies and procedures.
• Creating and delivering category plans and sourcing activities, through planning and execution of sourcing, bid support, supplier and risk management activities
• Building and maintaining category expertise, apply best practices around sourcing approach, supplier selection, total cost of ownership and negotiation tactics
• Identify business improvements leveraging the commercial, design and process to minimise the Total Cost of Ownership
• Drive and deliver end-to-end sourcing projects including complex contractual and pricing models
• Manage relationships with key suppliers, negotiate commercial and contractual arrangements utilising the latest contracting tools

Essential Skills / Experience

• Proven procurement/category management experience, with the ability to develop and execute sourcing strategies, manage procurement activities and deliver commercial outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong commercial and negotiation skills, with experience leading end-to-end sourcing projects, evaluating commercial models, managing contracts and delivering value through total cost of ownership approaches.
• Excellent stakeholder and supplier management capabilities, with the ability to build trusted relationships, influence senior stakeholders and effectively manage strategic supplier partnerships.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience procuring technology, hardware, telecommunications or consumer electronic products and services preferred.
• Knowledge of supplier partner programmes, vendor ecosystems and supplier capability assessment within a technology-led environment.
• Experience developing and implementing procurement frameworks, policies and governance processes.
• A track record of driving continuous improvement initiatives that enhance commercial performance, efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Experience supporting complex business requirements through supplier relationship management, risk management and strategic sourcing activities.

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.