Job Description

You will be a key contributor participating in regional cross functional team working to support the creation of specifications and service level expectation schedules. These critical inputs will enable the procurement process to deliver the best possible goods and services arrangements for our customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that the Site Managers business requirements are met, and that best value is delivered through integrated procurement best practice processes.
• Develop professional working relationships with key stakeholders from across the business to fully understand their objectives, performance issues, challenges and opportunities for each spend category.
• Develop and drive strategic category approaches for each service line ensuring that routes to market are defined and that spend is measured and reported on an ongoing basis.
• Advise key stakeholders to ensure the collaborative delivery of business benefits through innovative approaches to procurement.
• Support the company’s Supplier Code of Conduct by working to identify and deliver sustainable outcomes.
• Lead the supplier engagement and sourcing activities from sourcing, tender analysis and negotiation and ongoing commercial supplier performance and life cycle management.
• Implement best in class procurement disciplines and support the continuous development and improvement of these activities within the procurement team and across the business.
• Manage ethical supplier negotiations and ensure value for money deals are obtained in a professional manner that ensure suppliers are dedicated to high service levels and are committed to contributing to British Land’s strategic delivery.
• Actively promote and monitor the use of British Land’s Risk Framework including procurement policies, processes and templates and Supplier Code of Conduct.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders across the business to shape Procurement Plans.
• Attend operational and planning meetings and visiting regional sites as required to better understand site requirements and provide proactive procurement advice and support.
• Support and champion risk management in the relevant business area, ensuring risk is understood and mitigated to protect both the business and its customers.
• Manage high level supplier performance through the development of KPI dashboards
• Develop and deliver a category/engagement plan to optimise scale sourcing activities in the short/medium and longer term.
• Drive supplier efficiency through smarter working and innovation
• Contribute positively to the professionalism and credibility of the function to increase engagement on high value activities.

Required Skills

You will be able to demonstrate strong commercial understanding of the property market and service charge environment and be aware of the current trends for optimising best value.

The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, complimented with a strong track record of negotiation and influencing skills.

Engagement, tenacity and relationship building skills will be important if you are to be successful.

You will have experience across a number of commercial organisations and will have a track record of delivering successful sustainable outcomes in the most challenging of environments. You will be a self-starter who can work independently whilst being responsive to positive challenge and guidance.

Expected Behaviours

British Land employees are committed to living our values and promoting an inclusive, positive and collaborative culture.

Bring your whole self

• Confident, pro-active, hardworking and highly professional individual
• Treats everyone equally

Listen & Understand

• Seeks out, accepts and acts on feedback
• Awareness of and ability to maintain confidentiality

Smarter together

• Good team player, with positive attitude and eagerness to get involved
• Self-starter who uses own initiative
• Flexibility - able to deal with different levels of workload, remaining calm under pressure

Build for the future

• Willing to learn new skills and tools
• Works to a high standard and always strives to improve

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

CIPS qualified Exposure to a variety of sectors/industries/environments Category experience in both Direct and Indirect categories Strong commercial, sourcing, category management and skilled negotiator Ability to drive and implement change and respond rapidly to the changing needs of the business Able to build and develop strong relationships with key stakeholders Customer Service focussed Strong data interrogation and analytical skills Ability to work to tight deadlines to ensure business continuity Excellent communication skills with strong written and presentation skills Supplier and Risk Management experience Experience of working in multi-location, multi-stakeholder environment is essential Proven experience of sourcing complex and multi-location contracts Previous exposure to working in a retail or service charge environment (desirable, but not essential). Understanding how to drive corporate sustainability targets through supply chains. Strong team player