At Debenhams Group, we are a diverse portfolio of five core brands (boohoo, boohooMAN, PrettyLittleThing, Karen Millen, and Debenhams) alongside a dynamic marketplace model and a growing financial services division, it keeps us pretty busy!
We don’t stand still, we lead, evolve, and redefine online fashion. With bold ambitions and big energy, we’re on a mission to be the best, delivering the strongest propositions to our customers in the most engaging, innovative, and efficient ways possible.
We thrive on change, innovation, and pace. Every challenge is an opportunity, and every day is a chance to push boundaries. If you’re someone who embraces the unknown, thrives in a fast-moving, high-growth environment, and is ready to shape the future of retail, you’ll love it here. We want visionaries, disruptors, and doers, people who bring fresh thinking, relentless energy, and the drive to make an impact.
Be brave. Be creative. Be a community.
The role
As a Procurement Specialist you will be supporting the Procurement Manager to drive cost savings, efficiencies and process improvements across Debenhams Group and deliver commercial support for stakeholders across various categories (Facilities, Travel, Marketing , IT).
You will be responsible for maintaining the contract lifecycle, managing approvals and signature workflows, tracking procurement savings and KPIs, and supporting the successful implementation and ongoing adoption of our new Source-to-Contract platform. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape a modern, data-driven procurement function within a fast-paced retail environment.
This role is based onsite in Manchester 5 days per week.
Your Team
In Procurement, we’re behind every purchase the group makes. There’s no limit to the impact we can have. As we continue to transform the function, we are investing in automation and digital tools to streamline our Source-to-Contract process, challenge the business to find quality suppliers and achieve value for money. We’re the go-to team for the entire Group, ensuring that achieving quality and maximising the P&L drives every decision we make.
What you'll be doing
Procurement Operations & Administration (60%)
-
Own the administration of the end-to-end procurement lifecycle, ensuring sourcing activities progress smoothly from request through to contract execution.
- Manage the central contract repository, ensuring all contracts, amendments and supporting documentation are accurate, complete and up to date.
- Coordinate internal approval workflows and contract signature processes through DocuSign or equivalent platforms.
- Monitor contract expiry dates, maintain the contract renewal pipeline and proactively engage stakeholders to ensure timely renewals.
- Track procurement projects, key milestones and sourcing activities to ensure deadlines are met.
- Maintain procurement trackers, including savings, sourcing pipeline, contract status and procurement KPIs.
- Produce regular procurement reports, dashboards and presentations for senior stakeholders.
- Support supplier onboarding, documentation and compliance activities.
- Ensure procurement records, policies and governance documentation are maintained to a high standard.
Procurement Transformation (20%)
-
Support the Head of Procurement and Senior Procurement Manager with the implementation and ongoing administration of the new Source-to-Contract platform.
- Identify opportunities to automate procurement processes, improve data quality and increase procurement compliance.
- Contribute to the continuous development of procurement processes, templates and ways of working.
Commercial Support (20%)
-
Support sourcing and contract review activities across a range of indirect spend categories.
- Research suppliers, markets and cost models to support sourcing strategies and commercial decision-making.
- Assist with commercial negotiations and contract reviews to deliver value for money and annualised savings.
- Support the management of supplier relationships, contract performance and service reviews.
Working with us
To succeed here, you have to love working at pace. It’s relentless, but we love it. Change is a certainty – you need to adapt and be agile. We want you to challenge the status quo, innovate and be open to trying new things. We’re always pushing boundaries. We empower our people, giving them freedom and autonomy to learn and grow in their roles. We’re passionate, agile, creative and one team.
More about you
-
Strong understanding of procurement governance and contract lifecycle management.
-
Excellent organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
-
Proactive attitude with “can do” mentality
-
Communication, networking and interpersonal relationship skills
-
Excellent negotiation skills
-
Target-focussed
-
Good judgement and analytical skills
-
Planning and organising
-
Team player
-
Problem-solving
-
Commercial awareness
-
Driven with the ability to stay calm under pressure
-
Proficient in Microsoft Office (especially excel)
#LI-LF1 #LI-onsite #LI-procurement
