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Job information Sourcing Optimisation Manager from the Company Coop, this latest Sourcing Optimisation Manager job vacancy is located in the city Hybrid work in Manchester M located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Business field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

Sourcing Optimisation Manager Circa £55,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 5) Manchester city centre, in this role you'll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and coming into the office around two to three days a week (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

We're looking for a Sourcing Optimisation Manager to join our Transformation Delivery team. In this role you'll be key to helping the Co-op deliver big transformation projects across the business. You'll work with colleagues and teams from all over Co-op to make sure everything is in the right place at the right time as we enhance our customer value proposition.

We'll look to you to work closely with Buying and Customer Proposition colleagues on optimising our food customer proposition, including exciting initiatives that span across price, product, and promotions. If you can bring us pricing and promotions knowledge with some project management experience, we can offer you the chance to expand your knowledge and skills within customer experience management and food retail buying, whilst leading a successful multi-disciplinary team.

What you'll do

• Find opportunities for us to reduce the costs of the goods we buy, improving our economic profit
• Help to develop buyer negotiation packs and advocate best practice sourcing approaches across the commercial and propositions team
• Drive effective adoption of tools, offer tactical support and enable a pro-active approach to cost management
• Maintain, develop and improve new data analysis tools that allow our buyers to make data-informed decisions
• Support our buying teams to implement new initiatives in a collaborative and supportive way, continuously engaging with the buying population to highlight opportunities for continuous development and improvement
• Act as an expert within the team and work with business optimisation colleagues to make processes within commercial and propositions work more efficiently
• Support with complex high-level negotiations by enabling buyers to utilise all the resources available to them
• Develop materials to be used in the buying academy, helping to set the standards for how key decisions are made within the commercial buying roles in the future

This role would suit people who have

• General understanding and some experience in project management
• A high level of data literacy, with the ability to manipulate, analyse, interpret, and communicate large data sets in an engaging way
• A passionate, driven, and resilient attitude, with a focus on innovation and an interest in setting up for future success
• An understanding of customer planning and execution activity for products
• A good understanding of food buying processes and principles

Why Co-op?

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)

• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays

• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions

• Private healthcare for you

• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)

• Coaching and training to support your career development

• Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

• YuLife app - rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands

At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

Building a diverse environment

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes.

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.

Keywords : Manchester jobs
Closed Date : 2025-08-24