Senior Procurement Manager - Marketing

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.

Job Description

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special...

• After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Strong Business Partnering - Building close relationships with Marketing, Finance & Procurement colleagues, bringing category knowledge and commercial expertise to drive meaningful conversations with partners to influence sourcing and commercial decisions in line with the Business, Finance & Marketing strategies
• Bringing external insights and strong category expertise to develop & deliver procurement strategies / category plans across Creative & Production, Digital Marketing & Media, PR & Events, challenging the status quo
• Managing end-to-end Source to Contract activity, taking ownership for the development and approval of sourcing strategies, market testing, negotiation and contract award
• Managing key agency relationships within the category and implement appropriate contract management activities to drive value throughout the contract lifecycle
• Understand the need for speed and agility in execution and having experience in balancing risk, supply chain resilience and the ESG Agenda as well as looking a cost when working with suppliers.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• Significant procurement experience, particularly in Marketing
• Strong communication, influencing and networking skills, it's essential you can build relationships at a senior level in Marketing
• Ability to manage ambiguity and uncertainty, Retail is a fast paced industry where you will be juggling priorities and meeting tight deadlines continually
• Strong negotiation skills across complex agreements
• Experienced in contract drafting including development of schedules, commercials, and appropriate terms and conditions

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

#LI-AR1

#LI-Hybrid