# Buyer - Procurement

**Company**: Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd
**Location**: London, London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: Competitive Plus Benefits
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Procurement Buyer to join our Technology Services, Infrastructure and Strategy team on a 12-month secondment/fixed term contract. As a Procurement Buyer, you will take ownership of the Data Governance and Information Security category, a high-priority and complex category with significant exposure to our leadership team.

You will have the autonomy to shape category direction, drive commercial value and maintain trusted stakeholder relationships across a high-volume portfolio. You will develop and execute category and sourcing strategies for critical security technology solutions, balancing competing stakeholder priorities while keeping multiple complex workstreams moving.

Responsibilities:

- Take category ownership of the Data Governance and Information Security category

- Autonomously manage a portfolio of around 30–40 concurrent projects spanning high-volume and high-value requirements

- Develop and execute category and sourcing strategies for critical security technology solutions

- Maintain effective stakeholder relationships, lead commercial tenders and negotiations, and ensure compliance with our Procurement Policy

Requirements:

- Demonstrable category management experience, including end-to-end sourcing and commercial negotiation

- Proven ability to work autonomously while managing a high-volume portfolio of complex, high-value projects and competing deadlines

- Demonstrable ability to maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, including senior leaders

- Demonstrable analytical capability in evaluating costs and commercial options using data, understanding the value outside of the cost

- Proven ability to take ownership of complex requirements and translate them into practical, commercially focused category solutions

Benefits:

- Competitive salary

- Colleague discount: 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks, increasing to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day

- Pensions scheme and life cover

- Performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary

- Annual holiday allowance, and the option to buy additional holiday

- Season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance, and access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers

- Employee assistance programme

- Up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave

## Skills

### Required
- category management
- sourcing
- commercial negotiation
- analytical capability

### Nice to have
- technology procurement
- cyber security

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