Procurement Manager (Category Manager) in Bradford

We have an excellent opportunity for an indirect Procurement Manager to join the indirect Procurement function at Hilmore House in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Your responsibilities will focus on managing a complex, large-spend category, where you will manage the end to end procurement of goods and services. This helps us to reduce costs, enabling us to reinvest and build for the future. Some of the areas you will be covering may include marketing and corporate services.

From our stores and offices to manufacturing sites and warehouses, our team of friendly faces works as one to provide the freshest food and great shopping experiences to 11 million customers every week.

With relevant experience in procurement, effective teamwork and strong retail market knowledge, you will:

Have strong commercial acumen, being able to quickly understand how suppliers impact our business performance

• Develop and foster strong stakeholder relationships, developing and delivering opportunities to reduce costs and improve service
• Source new suppliers and work with the existing supplier base to deliver best value across all spend
• Have a strong understanding of procurement practices including: the role of technology, innovative sourcing  processes, contract and supplier management
• Have good experience of the operational requirements of working in a Procurement role including: project management, contracting, legal compliance, Grocery Suppliers Code of Practice, corporate social responsibility and other regulatory requirements
• Understand how our stores operate and always consider this when managing a category of spend.
• Plan and deliver supplier negotiations, ensuring outcomes are consistently right for our customers and business.

Our aim to offer more of what matters extends to our employees too. Join us and you can expect to enjoy great career prospects and a very competitive pay and benefits package. In addition to an attractive salary, we offer a discount card for you plus two more for friends or family members giving you 10% off your shopping in Morrisons. We also offer company share options, a highly competitive pension scheme, Life Assurance and more besides.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.