Leads procurement teams across a portfolio of goods and services. Responsible for developing and executing global and in-country category and contract management strategies while driving team performance, programme delivery, and high-level stakeholder engagement.
Key Responsibilities:
1. People Leadership
- Lead, coach, and inspire a high-performing procurement team to achieve their full potential.
- Drive personal development, talent retention, and robust succession planning.
2. Category & Contract Strategy
- Develop macro-level global category strategies balancing cost, quality, service, and risk mitigation.
- Identify and lead strategic workshops focused on sourcing, procurement-led change, and contract optimization.
3. Programme Delivery
- Ensure effective governance, resource allocation, and timely execution of the category programme.
- Maintain a balanced project pipeline aligned with overarching business objectives and financial plans.
4. Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as the primary procurement partner for senior stakeholders (up to Board level).
- Navigate and influence a complex, multi-cultural, international stakeholder environment.
- Build trust, challenge status quo with credible insights, and align procurement vision with business ambitions.
- Commercial Operator: Deep expertise in total cost of ownership (TCO) and financial modelling; skilled at leveraging market insights and streamlining processes to optimize project design, cost, and timelines.
- Strategic Thinker: Analytical and creative problem-solver capable of turning data and market intelligence into innovative procurement solutions.
- Master Influencer: Expert at navigating matrixed international organisations, building cross-functional rapport, and bringing stakeholders along on the procurement journey.
- Exceptional Leader: Proven track record of managing international teams, cultivating morale, and coaching individuals toward continuous performance and growth.
- Agile & Self-Aware: Dynamic, self-directed leader who thrives in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, embodies core organizational values, and actively drives their own development.
- Employee Pension Scheme
- Flexible Benefits Program
- Health Insurance & Critical Illness cover
- Flexible work environment- Hybrid Model (3 days a week from the office, 2 days from home)
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Skills Required
- Proven experience leading and developing high-performing procurement teams
- Experience developing and executing global category and contract management strategies
- Deep expertise in total cost of ownership (TCO) and financial modelling
- Experience in strategic sourcing, procurement programme delivery, and contract optimisation
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills with senior and international stakeholders
- Proven track record managing international teams, talent development, retention and succession planning
- Analytical problem-solving skills and ability to turn data and market intelligence into procurement solutions
What We Do
FARFETCH is the leading global platform for the luxury fashion industry. Our mission is to be the global platform for luxury fashion, connecting creators, curators and consumers. Founded in 2007 by José Neves for the love of fashion, and launched in 2008, FARFETCH began as an e-commerce marketplace for luxury boutiques around the world. Today the FARFETCH Marketplace connects customers in over 190 countries and territories with items from more than 50 countries and over 1,300 of the world’s best brands, boutiques and department stores, delivering a truly unique shopping experience and access to the most extensive selection of luxury on a single platform. FARFETCH’s additional businesses include Browns and Stadium Goods, which offer luxury products to consumers, and New Guards Group, a platform for the development of global fashion brands. FARFETCH offers its broad range of consumer-facing channels and enterprise level solutions to the luxury industry under its Luxury New Retail initiative. The Luxury New Retail initiative also encompasses FARFETCH Platform Solutions, which services enterprise clients with e-commerce and technology capabilities, and innovations such as Store of the Future, its connected retail solution.
