Procurement Manager - Facility Management

Why this job matters

The Procurement Manager is responsible for driving and delivering the procurement plan and activities in BT’s Category Management, Strategic Sourcing & Proc. Business Partnering practice.

This role will be the Global Category Lead for BT’s global Facility Management needs. You will manage spend and develop procurement frameworks, policies and procedures. You will hold strong relationships with key suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure procurement competency and continuous value delivery.

What you'll be doing

Strategic

• Accountable for supporting the business to create a sourcing strategy.
• Build relationships with senior stakeholders (CXO level) across BT in all areas relevant to the role.
• Become an integral part of the annual planning and budgeting process with the business units to plan future requirements.

Operational

• Proactively identify synergies across BT’s Global footprint to optimize services, minimize risks and reduce costs.
• Collaborate with regional teams, execute and deliver category plans & sourcing activities
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver the business objectives and key transformational programmes. Provide professional leadership to internal teams.
• Build and maintain category expertise, apply best practices around latest market developments.
• Agile way of working, managing different projects and priorities at good pace. Experience managing escalations.
• Manage relationships with key suppliers, negotiate commercial and contractual arrangements utilising the latest digital tools.

The skills you'll need

• Significant experience within the procurement function, with strong sourcing skills and the ability to collaborate and deliver through high performance teams.
• Expertise in relevant category, particularly around supplier capabilities, commercial models, product lifecycles and partner programmes.
• Demonstrates a track record of decision-making capability and deliver against key metrics.
• Strong relationship management skills & ability to influence decision making with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to manage complex, strategic and commercial requirements between BT and Suppliers, deliver projects and results on time and in full.
• Familiar with the UK property market – non-essential.

Benefits

• The opportunity to have access to your leadership team. They are based on site.
• The opportunity to have scope and impact on what you do and to shape the culture of the team.
• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office per week - with state-of-the-art offices within Grand Canal Plaza in Dublin 2.
• The opportunity to earn an annual bonus (10%)
• BT Sourced Pension Scheme – up to 6% BT contributions.
• Life Assurance from 1st day of employment – 4 x salary.
• We provide healthcare cover & permanent health insurance (income continuance).
• Access to excellent training tools, programmes and communities to help you connect, learn and grow.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays and an opportunity to buy up to five more days every year.
• And we like it when our people do good things so there will be the opportunity to take time off for volunteering and we’ll help with your fund raising too