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Procurement Manager - FTC - September 2025

Job Req ID: 38340

Posting Date: 27 Aug 2024

Function: Procurement and Supply Chain

Unit: Finance & Business Services

Location:

Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland

Salary: Attractive salary and benefits

Network Materials Category Manager – Dublin-based with flexible smart working – Attractive salary and benefits

• We’re people people. Do you want to work within a vibrant, growth mindset-orientated, multi-cultural team that you’d be proud to be a part of?

• Do you want to work for a front runner in digital procurement utilising best in class digital procurement tools?

• Do you want full autonomy to make decisions, drive strategies and truly value add within all of your partnerships?

Well here at BT Sourced, you’ll have this and work with a procurement start-up within a fully digitalised setup, backed by one of the biggest brands in the UK in BT. This is a true opportunity to shape the direction and culture of BT’s procurement service which operates out of Dublin, Ireland.

#WeSourceForABetterFuture

Why this job matters

The Manager is responsible for driving and delivering the procurement plan and activities in BT’s Category Management, Strategic Sourcing & Proc. Business Partnering practice. This role develops and implements procurement frameworks, policies and procedures. This role holds strong relationships with key suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure procurement competency and continuous value delivery.

What you’ll be doing

• Manage and deliver category spend and performance, develop and deliver category plan and long term values, implement business improvements through optimising commercial, design and process levers that minimise the Total Cost of Ownership

• Drive and deliver end-to-end sourcing projects including complex contractual and pricing models

• Collaborate with regional category teams, and ensure category plan implementation at a regional level

• Maintain internal and external networks, to ensure buy in and improvements of customer value and Total Cost of Ownership

• Manage relationships with key suppliers, negotiate commercial and contractual arrangements utilising the latest contracting tools, templates and terms and conditions, ensure required performance and contractual obligations are met, while incorporating innovative improvement initiatives

• Deliver business partnering services to key CFUs / CUs

The skills you'll need

• Experience within the procurement function, with strong sourcing skills and the ability to collaborate and deliver through high performance teams

• Strong expertise in relevant category, particularly around supplier capabilities, commercial models, product lifecycles and partner programmes required to deliver portfolio and customer requirements

• Demonstrates a track record of decision making capability and deliver against key metrics

• Strong relationship management skills & ability to influence decision making with senior stakeholders within a matrixed environment

• Ability to manage complex, strategic and commercial requirements between BT and Suppliers, deliver projects and results on time and in full

• Experience in business partnering and supplier relationship management

• Demonstrates strong continuous improvement skills that exceeds expectations

What’s in it for you? What are the benefits?

Here at BT Sourced, our purpose is to Connect For Good and to have a positive impact on people, planet and society. We’re very proud of our accreditations as a Healthy Place To Work (Great Place To Work Institute) and as a Responsible Business leader (Business in the Community/NSAI).

One of our highest priorities is being a diverse, equitable and inclusion organisation, and our aim is to foster a sense of belonging among employees and to support everyone to reach their potential with us.

• The opportunity to have access to your leadership team. They are based on site.

• The opportunity to have scope and impact on what you do and to shape the culture of the team.

• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office per week - with state-of-the-art offices within Grand Canal Plaza in Dublin 2.

• Access to excellent training tools, programmes and communities to help you connect, learn and grow.

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays and an opportunity to buy up to five more days every year.

• And we like it when our people do good things so there will be the opportunity to take time off for volunteering and we’ll help with your fund raising too

Our leadership standards

Looking in:

Leading inclusively and Safely

I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.

Owning outcomes

I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:

Delivering for the customer

I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.

Commercially savvy

I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:

Growth mindset

I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.

Building for the future

I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

#LI-BTSourced #Procureco #LI-TE1 #LI-Hybrid

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.