Senior Procurement Coordinator

Role Responsibility

We're looking for a Senior Procurement Coordinator with proven experience undertaking and delivering various improvement, change and cost reduction projects to time, quality and savings targets to join our team in Leicester.

• This project based role is sat within a dedicated team responsible for analysing costs across all GNFR (Goods Not for Resale) spend areas
• Responsibilities include identifying and implementing purchasing projects as part of the Strategic Procurement team. 
• These initiatives will include senior level tenders, negotiations and tactics which focus on driving significant cost and efficiency savings whist ensuring the business continues to operate effectively.
• You will work closely with teams across the business to understand requirements, as well as influence and build strong relationships with senior level stakeholders.
• Significant opportunity to make a real impact and challenge current spend areas, spotting areas for improvement; reviewing the market and compare our existing suppliers to the competition, ensuring we’re always getting the best value for money.

What's in it for you

• The most picturesque office location, surrounded by fields, a lake and ducklings with great facilities that you will have access to, including a PS4 (a number of games!) and great colleagues.
• The office offers free parking and is also 45 mins by train from London St Pancreas International
• In 2018, Selfridges was recognised as the Best Department Store in the World for an unprecedented fourth time, and will retain the honour until 2020. We are a leading London retail destination and a UK landmark for over a century, challenging the rules of retail from day one and you get to be part of our story.  
• We were also recognised as a LinkedIn Top Company in 2018.  Being part of our journey gives you the opportunity to drive real change and share your ideas across this team raising your visibility as an expert in Procurement. 

The Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate

• Graduate with a Charted Institute of Purchasing ( CIPS ) qualification
• Experience in Procurement, ideally within another Retail/GNFR/Consumer Goods environment. 
• Applied knowledge of MS Office
• Knowledge and experience of successfully completing a similar cost reduction exercise is advantageous and desirable.

About the Company

Selfridges is a shop run on imagination: a place where the world’s most covetable brands combine with the most extraordinary spectacles, events and ideas for an experience like no other.

The story began when Harry Gordon Selfridge first arrived in London from Chicago in 1906 with his heart set on opening his dream store. With his revolutionary understanding of publicity and the theatre of retail, Selfridges Oxford Street opened its doors for the first time in 1909. The founder’s spirit of innovation and creativity lives on through its owners today. Since 2003, W. Galen Weston and his family have owned and operated the business, which now includes two stores in Manchester, one in Birmingham, plus selfridges.com and the Selfridges App which both deliver to over 130 countries.

In 2016 Selfridges was the first ever store to be awarded the title of ‘World’s Best Sustainability Campaign by a Department Store’ at the IGDS Global Department Store Summit, in-line with its focus on buying better and inspiring change. For an unprecedented three consecutive occasions in a row (2010, 2012 & 2014) Selfridges also won the coveted ‘Best Department Store in the World’ award, underlining its place at the forefront of retail.

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