Barratt Redrow
Commodity Manager (Indirect)
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Senior Procurement Manager: Indirect Spend (Indirect Categories)
What you'll be doing
Supporting the business through comprehensive Head Office functions, our diverse operations span:
- Executive Board
- Departmental support functions including:
- Group Design & Technical
- HR
- Health & Safety
- IT
- Sales & Marketing
- Commercial
- Procurement
- Group Finance
- Corporate Affairs
- Legal & Company Secretariat
We also operate a dedicated function: Barratt Partnerships.
Your core responsibility: Lead the procurement strategy, ongoing management, and optimisation of indirect spend categories to deliver:
✔ Best-value supply arrangements ✔ Robust commercial management ✔ Supreme supplier performance ✔ Cost optimisation ✔ Risk reduction ✔ Continuous improvement across key areas including:
- Facilities management
- Waste management
- Plant
- Fleet
- Utilities
- Site services
- Corporate support categories
Responsibilities
You will be accountable for:
- Strategic sourcing and category ownership for indirect goods/services
- Tendering & contract management aligned with supply governance
- Structural cost optimisation across the extended supply chain
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Supplier lifecycle management:
- Evaluate/select/new onboard suppliers conforming to group standards
- Negotiate pricing, service levels, commercial terms, and contracts to ensure value-for-money
- Develop/maintain framework agreements, SLAs, and performance scorecards
- Manage supplier relationships: Performance reviews, risk assessments, improvement plans
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Data-led procurement:
- Conduct spend analysis, market reviews, and benchmarking to uncover savings
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Compliance governance:
- Ensure adherence to procurement policies, governance, and regulatory requirements
- Drive innovation, sustainability, and technology adoption in supplier categories
Requirements
Candidates are expected to demonstrate:
- Demonstrable procurement experience (preferably in FM, IT, professional services, fleet, utilities etc)
- Preference for CIPS qualification (certified or in progress)
- Strong track record in supplier relationship & contract management
- Proven ability to negotiate service-based contracts for indirect spend services
- Category strategy & demand analytics expertise (with spend analysis skill)
- Commercial acumen along with advanced Excel capabilities
- Exceptional communication skills for stakeholder consultancy
- Autonomous multiproject management
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Benefits
Core Benefits:
- Competitive salary + bonus scheme
- Private medical cover (including family access)
- Annual health assessment
- 26 days paid leave, incrementally increasing to 29 days per 3-year tenure
- Flexible benefits, family leave & financial wellness (e.g. employee loans, savings schemes)
- Hybrid working model supporting site/office/home flexibility (where applicable)
Industry-Leading Support:
Employee Wellbeing
- Access to virtual GP, physio & mental health therapy
- Pension schemes (up to 10% employer contribution)
Lifestyle & Home Benefits
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- reduced room hotel rates & trading discounts
Additional Perks:
- Parents & Carers leave
- Voluntary/discretionary corporate leave benefits
- Death in service financial guarantees
- Parent training provision
- Share ownership scheme
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