Procurement Manager - Network Technology

Job Req ID: 63300 #LI-BTSourced #Procureco #LI-TE1 #LI-Hybrid About the role This role is critical to shaping and delivering BT’s procurement strategy within the Network Category, ensuring the organisation achieves sustainable value, cost efficiency, and strategic advantage. As a Procurement Manager, you will lead the execution of category management and strategic sourcing activities, driving best-in-class procurement practices across the business. This includes developing and implementing robust procurement frameworks, policies, and processes that ensure consistency, compliance, and operational excellence. You will play a key role in building strong, collaborative relationships with both internal stakeholders and strategic suppliers, enabling effective decision-making and unlocking innovation and value. Through your expertise and leadership, you will help strengthen procurement capability across the organisation, supporting the delivery of key business and transformation objectives. Ultimately, this role contributes to maximising commercial outcomes, managing risk, and ensuring BT remains competitive in a dynamic and evolving market. What you’ll be doing Strategic Accountable for developing and delivering the savings pipeline, category strategies, and sourcing plans through effective planning and execution of sourcing, supplier, and risk management activities. Build and maintain deep category expertise, applying best practices across sourcing approaches, supplier selection, total cost of ownership (TCO), and negotiation strategies.   Operational Identify and deliver business improvements by leveraging commercial, design, and process levers to minimise total cost of ownership.  Collaborate with procurement colleagues, technical teams to execute category plans and sourcing activities, ensuring delivery against key performance metrics and alignment across business units. Ensure adherence to procurement policies, processes, and governance frameworks. Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to support business objectives and drive key delivery and transformation programmes.   Key Activities Develop and deliver category strategies, aligning cross-functionally with key stakeholders to agree, implement and execute category plans that maximise commercial value, drive business objectives, and deliver the best outcomes for BT. Manage and optimise category spend and performance, developing and delivering category strategies that drive long-term value and continuous improvement. Lead and deliver end-to-end sourcing projects, including complex commercial negotiations and contractual arrangements.  Build and maintain strong internal and external relationships to secure alignment, drive engagement, and support delivery aligned to BT’s values.  Manage key supplier relationships, negotiating commercial and contractual terms to ensure performance, compliance, and continuous innovation.  Provide effective…