Procurement Officer

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Description As the Procurement Officer you will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of a cross functional and consistent procurement process, from identification of tenders through to successful selection. As part of the role, based out of our main warehouse, you will be the first point of call for visiting contractors, liaising with them as required, should members of the facilities team not be available. Review potential options in the target marketplace, against a standard set of guiding principles, working with the businesses SME and selecting a number of panellists to invite to tender. Play a key role in supporting and assisting the team in obtaining information in preparation for tender, reporting on the GNFR category overall spend, gathering data and reporting on supplier performance against agreed KPIs. Alongside this you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of cost against GNFR lines, working to improve spend and to create visibility and clarity for across all business areas (Head Office, Retail and the Warehouses). The Team It’s an exciting time to join our Facilities team at Footasylum. We’ve brought our facilities management function in-house and are having a group wide approach across our business to ensure that the facilities within our retail and Warehousing depot’s are led with a strategic lens to meet cost efficiencies and our Net Zero targets. About You Experienced in managing cost lines, including end-to-end sign offandprocesses aligned to the delivery of the procurement process across head office, retail estate and warehousing.Owning the preparation for monthly meetings, creating slides and delivering presentations with confidence. Ideally you will have lead a team and overseen reporting for tender purposes and able to analyse data for supplier performance purposes alongside reporting on GNFR spend. Confident and able to build and establish new and existing client and supplier relationships. Able to read and analyse data and clear on how to report back findings and can challenge the norm to ensure new and innovative ideas are explored within the procurement space. Why Footasylum? We are one of the leading omni-channel retailers across the UK, but more than that we are a brilliant place to work. We value you and your development. We have loads of examples of people moving upwards, across to other departments and given training to excel their personal and professional skills. Our aim is to create a fun environment, where your success is paramount to ours and you are given the right tools, support and platform to achieve your goals. Diversity We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building services to customers and the wider business. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds. Recruitment Process With the COVID-19 situation beginning to abate, our teams are all working a in a hybrid mix of office and home working, adjusting to this new way of working as best we can - and as such well help make the interview process as clear and stress-free as possible, giving you the same opportunity as if we were meeting face to face. We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit well invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if were a good fit for you. We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you. Please note, this is not a remote role and our expectation is that you will be able to attend Studio in a hybrid way, in Greater Manchester.