Buying Manager - Travel & Events Leeds, England
Job description
Procurement (GNFR): Category Manager – Travel & Events
Are you a procurement manager looking for a fresh challenge in the world of Corporate Services? Do you want to join a top national grocery retailer on an exciting business transformation journey? Do you have Travel and Events experience? Look no further, this might be the role for you...
About the Role
Asda currently have an exciting opportunity for a Category Manager to join our Corporate Services Procurement team. This is a fantastic opportunity for motivated individuals to progress their career, support Asda through its Customer Transformation strategy and contribute to Asda's Every Day Low-Cost culture.
As an ASDA Category Manager, you will be leading on and supporting a range of commercial and operational activities with a focus on Travel and Events. This will involve:
- Being responsible for the end-to-end delivery of complex and agile strategic sourcing processes
- Acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to the business, with a strong understanding of the travel industry, systems, and operations.
- Being accountable for creating and implementing Category Strategies to support business objectives.
- Supporting with the Supplier Management Programme and helping to identify and mitigate risk in our supply chains.
- Partnering with policy owners to develop, maintain, interpret, and drive implementation of the travel policy to optimise savings leverage and operational effectiveness.
- Responsible for managing the travel systems that ensures monitoring, tracking and measurement of the traveller programme with reports aligned to business needs and stakeholder requirements.
About You
You will need to have a proven background in strategic services procurement. It would be advantageous but not essential for you to be CIPS accredited or working towards accreditation. The ability to negotiate confidently and effectively will be critical, as will the ability to build strong stakeholder relationships and use these to influence plans and decisions. You will be able to work in a very dynamic environment, with time pressures.
We are also looking for:
- Previous experience of Travel and Event procurement, especially with system implementation and operation optimisation
- Experience from other Corporate Services categories including Professional Services, Human Resources and Safety and Security.
- Strong knowledge of commercial sourcing processes necessary to identify and onboard best in class capabilities and deals through excellent negotiation skills.
- Ability to work in an agile manner to flex and support the business needs in a fast-paced transformation environment.
Now is an exciting time to join Asda with new ownership and leadership providing new direction for the business, and as the business undergo a digital transformation and transition to become a truly Customer First organisation, with Procurement an important enabler to this strategy. You will interact closely and gain exposure with various senior stakeholders, Business Partners, Finance and Legal teams.
Work Where it Works.
Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to choose where you will be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team, as well as across our network of stores and depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including; -
- £5700 car allowance
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- 10% colleague discount, free parking, and many additional rewards
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.
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