Lead-Procurement

  • Full-time
  • Group Function: Tesco Business Services

Company Description

Tesco Bengaluru
We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.
At Tesco Business Solutions, we have a mission to simplify, scale & partner to serve our customers, colleagues and suppliers through a best-in-class intelligent Business Services model . We do this by building a world class business services model by executing service a model framework right at the heart of everything we do for our worldwide customers. The key objective is to implement and execute service model across all our functions and markets consistently. The ethos of business services is to free-up our colleagues from a regular manual operational work. We use cognitive technology to augment our key decision making. We also built a Continuous Improvement (CI) culture across functions to drive bottom-up business efficiencies by optimising processes. Business services colleagues need to act as a business partner with our group stakeholders to build a collaborative partnership driving continuous improvement across markets and functions to lead the best customer experience by serving our shoppers a little better every day.
At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone's Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.
Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues, who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Job Description

Develop strong working relationships with partners to support; endorse and deliver sub category plans aligned to category procurement strategies to realise business savings and support innovation . Assist in the development of the functional operating model for specific sub-categories .Control of business spend and actively minimise revenue costs through improved use of tools; processes and application of best practice . Track and report on savings targets for specified sub-categories - Supplier Contract Negotiation .Build new and improve existing supplier relationships to ensure continued suitability and build greater value . Support the business to achieving compliance with legal and ethical procurement policies . Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence . Driving and implementing CI Projects and innovation for their teams .Deep expertise in a particular process or field .First line team supervisory responsibility on process mentoring; on the job training; coordinating and presenting .Maintain relationships with multiple partners; handle user problems within process . Solves complex operational problems

Qualifications

Advanced MS Office
Numeracy Skills
Advanced Analytical Ability
Eye-to-Detail; Basic Market Research
Planning; Organising & Prioritisation
Logical Thinking and Reasoning
Problem Solving; Process Mapping and Coaching
Standup Presentations SkillsGood Presentation skills; The ability to Influence well; Good Communication Skills; the ability to Navigate Change; Networking are preferred for this role

Additional Information


 

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