Senior Procurement Manager

This role will be responsible for leading a team of procurement professionals to drive sourcing and category management for UK Business products and services. The right candidate will have extensive knowledge of developing sourcing and supplier strategies for several key product categories across the BT Business portfolio, with experience across Product, Commercial, Go-To-Market, operations and sales. Strong experience in Source to Contract process is required and the ability to understand complex customer product and service requirements. Strong business expertise in portfolio purchasing and relevant categories is required, particularly around Customer Requirements, Supplier/Partner Capabilities, Commercial models, product lifecycle and partner programmes required to deliver portfolio and customer requirements. You will be expected to establish appropriate sourcing strategies alongside relevant internal stakeholders (Product, Account and Commercial) to drive long-term goals of Continuity of Supply, Cost, Quality, Safety, Diversity & Inclusion and Risk and Sustainability. You will also oversee supplier commercial performance and compliance including the development of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in collaboration with key stakeholders and conduct quarterly business reviews with our supply chain.