We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 78,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

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We’re recruiting for a Procurement Productivity Manager to join the GNFR Procurement team here at Kingfisher, based from Southampton or Paddington in the UK or Lille or Longpont in France.

As the Procurement Productivity Manager, you will analyse the GNFR spend by category and banner to compare and identify best practices across stores and head offices, looking to drive the adoption of category management tools within Group Procurement.

This role can be based in our Southampton, London, or French headoffices.

What you'll be doing

• Coordinate the development of a category management centre of excellence and training across the team
• Lead supplier analytics to enable project prioritisation and resource allocation to maximise value
• Coordinate spend reviews between category and local procurement
• Facilitate the production of qualitative reports relating to spend management coverage / pipeline / opportunities / priorities with support from analytics manager and heads of categories
• Challenge / influence way of working across banners through rightsizing, make/buy, insource/outsource, nearshore/offshore analysis to drive savings
• Optimise project portfolio and resource allocation for best demand and spend management

Skills & Experience:

• Indirect procurement/category management experience within a large, global organisation
• Experience working on a cost reduction programme within Procurement
• Analytical skills to collect, extract and analyse procurement data to gather insights on spend productivity to influence category decisions
• Be organised and efficient, with the ability to plan strategically and engage and influence at all levels

This is an exciting opportunity to join our global business. In return, we provide an inspirational working environment, a competitive benefits package and opportunities to stretch and grow your career.