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Why Superdrug?
Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend‑setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station, is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities. We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun. Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.
Location & Hours
Location: East Croydon
Hours: 37.5
Key Responsibilities
* Work with department contract owners, procurement partners and directors alongside finance partners, the legal team and the own brand procurement team to advise on all procurement matters.
* Line manage a procurement buyer with oversight of all non‑trade tender plans and contract signing, to track project progress and deliverables with reporting responsibilities to senior management and the business.
* Prepare and track investment business cases and tender recommendations for relevant approvals from the business unit investment committee and group investment committee for high spend projects.
* Achieve cost saving targets, contract compliance and continuous improvement activities to obtain the goal of a best‑in‑class procurement function, including communications, training plans and overall management of the UK investment committee (IC) commercial section.
* Identify and complete tenders according to company policies and established best practice within timescales that ensure contracts are in place and key services not disrupted.
* Carry out supplier sourcing and spend analysis activities to identify opportunities to positively impact on commercial contracts, profitability and business efficiencies.
* Support different departments across the business in setting up and running tenders and quotation processes and category/supplier management.
* Run selected tenders from initial requirement, market analysis, tender/contract management, implementation, post analysis/lessons learnt while working with subject matter experts from different departments.
* Record and share information to ensure an accurate UK contract database and feed into the visibility of upcoming contract expiry dates, break options and potential savings opportunities.
* Support the relationship with group procurement services (GPS) and collaborate on inter‑UK businesses and international tenders that cover the UK.
Qualifications
* Solid procurement experience, particularly in partnering categories to support contract owners and assess category requirements as well as experience in leading a formal tender process from start to the completed contract.
* Degree in business or CIPS qualification would be valuable.
* Demonstrable line management experience.
Benefits
* 33 days holiday, rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays).
* 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend.
* 30% discount on Superdrug own brand products both in store and online.
* Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.
* Company pension matching and bonus.
* We offer Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it.
* Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK.
* We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets.
* Unrivalled learning and development programmes.
* Enhanced maternity, shared parental, adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support.
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