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Category Specialist

Category Specialist

Entain • London, England, UK
6 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Role Purpose

Entain are looking for an experienced Procurement Category Specialist for Retail and Property to join its growing global business. Youll be working across the major areas of Retail spend including Property Retail Technology Facilities Management Utilities and shop services.

The key purpose of this role is to optimise 3rd party spend on all Retail & Property expenditure across Entain and support in the creation of short/mid and long-term value optimisation strategies aligned to the objectives of the business.

Key Responsibilities

  • Engage Retail & Property community to understand business strategies
  • Support in the development of medium and long term Strategies ensuring commercial tension across all areas of spend
  • Using stakeholder and supplier networks identify continuous improvement and step-change opportunities to product and service specifications
  • Own and embody the teams values including the promotion and embedding within the team
  • Supporting financial reporting of cost improvement on a P&L basis interpreting CAPEX OPEX depreciation and cash flow
  • Operate agile and effective commercial processes
  • Identification of global synergies

This will specifically include:

  • Supporting the creation of global Retail & Property commercial strategies identifying all sources of benefit short/mid and long term
  • Develop and conduct Rfxs for market activity ensuring size and complexity are fit for purpose
  • Creation and buy in to key supplier management strategy to drive improved performance across the supply base
  • Develop an understanding and knowledge of all industry specific technology solutions
  • Become a trusted advisor member of the Retail community
  • Maximise contract compliance and spend under management

Specialist Skills and Experience:

  • Commercial experience (including RFx execution implementation and benefit delivery)
  • TCO modelling to define optimal cost structures
  • Excellent people and influencing skills across all levels of the organisation
  • Highly organised
  • Self-motivated and can-do attitude

Qualifications :

  • Graduate calibre with Bachelors degree (desirable but not mandatory)
  • Post-graduate qualification (e.g. MSc/MBA) or a professional qualification such as MCIPS is desirable but not essential
  • Project Management qualification desirable but not essential
  • Technically and commercially astute


Additional Information :

At Entain we know that signing top players requires a great starting package and plenty of support to inspire peak performance. Join us and a competitive salary is just the beginning. Working for us in the UK you can expect to receive great benefits like:

  • Generous group bonus scheme
  • Hybrid working
  • Private medical insurance
  • Pension scheme
  • Ability to buy and sell holiday
  • Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind
  • Additional Its Your Game day off to use at either Christmas or New Year
  • Entain & Enhance days 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development
  • Share save scheme


Remote Work :

No


Employment Type :

Full-time


Experience: years
Vacancy: 1

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