Overview
Procurement Category Buyer – London, Greater London
Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.
Summary
Join a forward‑thinking Procurement team that plays a pivotal role in shaping commercial success across Fashion, Home, Beauty and Food.
As a Procurement Category Buyer, you’ll uncover untapped value, strengthen supplier partnerships and drive innovative, sustainable outcomes that support M&S teams across more than 650 suppliers.
By bringing sharp market insight, challenge and governance, you’ll help teams reduce cost, manage risk and deliver outstanding commercial results, while developing your own expertise in a collaborative, fast paced environment.
All the details
What you’ll do
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Build strong, positive relationships with business partners across Procurement, Finance and the wider business.
- Support and deliver cross‑category procurement strategies using market insight and data‑driven decision‑making.
- Lead end‑to‑end sourcing activity, including strategy development, market testing, negotiation and contract award.
- Embed commercial benefits in partnership with Finance and drive ESG considerations across procurement activity.
- Be responsible for approvals and contracting processes to ensure robust governance and best commercial terms.
Who you are
Your skills will include:
- Procurement experience with strong commercial and analytical capability.
- Confident communicator able to influence, challenge constructively and build strong networks.
- Proven ability to manage multiple sourcing projects and deliver impactful results.
- Skilled negotiator with experience drafting contracts and shaping commercial terms.
- Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint and procurement systems, comfortable navigating ambiguity and change.
What’s in it for you?
Working at M&S means being part of something bigger – helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.
Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:
- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you
Everyone’s welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
If you feel you’d benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
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