Procurement Manager

British Land
Role Title Procurement Manager

Location Marble Arch London

Division Finance

Reporting to Head of Procurement

The Team

This is a great opportunity to join our ambitious and successful Procurement Team at an exciting time for British Land. Over the last 6 years we have been working closely with our stakeholders and suppliers to establish a Procurement centre of expertise to support our British Land colleagues. Over this time we have gone from strength to strength and much of this success has been due to the skills, experience and flexibility of our Procurement professionals.

Our Procurement Charter is:

‘To work in partnership with the business to optimise the cost and quality of third-party services by providing highly commercial first-class procurement advisory services, professionalising initial sourcing decisions and ongoing vendor/demand management’.

The Role

This role is responsible for undertaking procurement sourcing projects on behalf of the site based and head office teams in line with the procurement pipeline plan. You will ensure that Procurement support is aligned to the structure, objectives, and culture of the function, becoming an enabler to their business plans, objectives and deliverables.

You will be responsible for leading and sharing procurement best practice within your customer groups and continue the ongoing delivery of the procurement strategy. We expect all team members to be flexible often working on a wide range of categories across multiple assets. Our third-party expenditure exceeds £850m annually across Facilities Management, Property (Construction), Professional Services and Corporate/Indirect so there is plenty of opportunity to deliver added value and innovation.

If you like working in a dynamic fast pace environment this is one for you. You will be working closely with key head office stakeholders and field-based teams to overcome operational challenges whilst juggling planning and delivery activities. You will collaborate with key stakeholders proactively, identifying areas where Procurement can add measurable value, and lead solutions to support strategic goals for improving organisational effectiveness and efficiency.

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

You will be responsible for the following:

• Ensure that the customer 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 specific 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.
• Demonstrate our company values in everything that you do

Requirements

As we are a small team, we are looking for a Procurement Manager who has demonstratable experience working across a broad range of both direct and indirect categories. 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.

• 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 of how to drive corporate sustainability targets through supply chains.
• Strong team player

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

About British Land

At British Land we own or manage a high-quality UK commercial property portfolio focused on London Offices and Retail around the UK. As at 31 March 2022, the portfolio is valued at £13.3bn (British land share: £9.8bn) making us one of Europe’s largest listed real estate investment companies.

Our strategy is to provide places which meet the needs of our customers and respond to changing lifestyles – Places People Prefer. We do this by creating great environments both inside and outside our buildings and use our scale and placemaking skills to enhance and enliven them. This expands their appeal to a broader range of occupiers, creating enduring demand and driving sustainable, long-term performance.

Sustainability is embedded throughout our business. Our places, which are designed to meet high sustainability standards, become part of local communities, provide opportunities for skills development and employment and promote wellbeing.

We are a diverse, curious team that believes in shared success and enabling people to be themselves and work in ways they work best. Our small expert team works alongside other expert people on some of the most ambitious, innovative projects in the country, and we are committed to offering our people a rewarding career journey where you can shape how you grow. We provide a range of flexible working arrangements, operating both formal and informal opportunities to meet individual needs.
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