Procurement Professional

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About the role

What I’ll be doing – your accountabilities

• Procurement Strategies: Support strategy development to optimize procurement activities across all BT units for all relevant categories.
• Deliver Cost savings: Support a data driven approach to category management
• RFx activity: Support RFx activity end to end
• Policy Implementation: Support the implementation of procurement policies and procedures.
• Supplier Management: Manage key supplier relationships to ensure procurement excellence.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build & secure excellent & inclusive stakeholder engagement for procurement initiatives.
• Operational Efficiency: Enhance operational efficiency

Skills required for the job

• Presentation Skills: Competent Presentation skills to Exco/Senior leader level.
• Strategic Procurement Leadership Support: Support the Category Manager to drive the procurement strategy for the professional services categories ensuring alignment with BT’s strategic goals.

• Supplier Relationship Management: Maintain and strengthen relationships with key suppliers to ensure procurement excellence and value delivery.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Foster strong internal networks and ensure stakeholder buy-in for procurement initiatives.
• Procurement Insight: Provide expert procurement insight to support strategic sourcing and procurement business partnering practices.

What you will be doing (Role Accountabilities)

As an Individual Contributor you will provide support to professional services category leads in BT

You will support the procurement category strategy build and align with business owners.

You will support RFx activity to ensure best commercial value for BT

You will ensure all contract adherence is maintained to ensure timely agreements

You will ensure excellent oral and written communications & influencing skills with the capability to present to a more senior audience

You will build and develop excellent relationships with your stakeholders

What you’ll need to succeed (Skills & Experience)

• Graduate / Postgraduate in Procurement/ Supply chain or Finance/Accounting
• Preferably 5+ year’s relevant experience with a MNC
• Highly Numerate/Good commercial modelling skills
• Excellent Presentation & Interpersonal skills
• Excellent Communication / Articulation skills
• Ability to navigate large complex organisations
• Straightforward, trustworthy
• Able to work independently to resolve issues
• Ability to work accurately to tight timeframes
• Able to identify improvement opportunities and introduce these into the immediate work area and also across the wider team
• Flexibility to work in Shifts

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.