Title:  Category Specialist - Procurement

Category Specialist – Procurement

Function: Procurement
Location: Edinburgh (South Gyle then City Centre from May 2025) - a mix of office & home working

Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 base depending on experience + performance bonus plus full benefits listed below

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 18th February 2025

As the nation’s leading pub, cider and beer company and the name behind a host of brilliant brands, we’re looking for equally brilliant people to help us on our journey to building a better future.

We’re looking for someone who’s as ready to evolve for the future as we are. If you’re ready to brew a new career, apply for the Category Specialist role within our procurement team.

About the Role
Reporting to a procurement Category Manager, this role will manage a diverse range of suppliers and stakeholders across a multi-million pound spend area of Heineken UK.

You’ll be responsible for managing a series of high profile projects in conjunction with local stakeholders and Global Procurement and developing a number of strategic supplier relationships to maximise performance and deliver stretching savings and/or benefit targets.

This is a role for someone who loves working with others to deliver results in a challenging and fast-paced environment.

Who we’re looking for?
The role will require someone with a commercial background, ideally with 2-3 years’ experience in procurement, contract negotiations and supplier performance management.

Experience of developing and role modelling business partnering with internal stakeholders to deliver multiple projects at the same time within tight timescales, together with the ability to carry out detailed analysis and communicate results effectively are all pre-requisites for this role.
 

If you;

• Are a self-starter with the drive and resilience to succeed
• Have significant influencing and negotiation experience

• Have a passion for procurement

Then this could be the role for you!

Our Benefits
As part of the team, along with your salary, you’ll also receive;

• Discretionary Annual bonus
• Flexible benefits (15% of base salary can be taken as cash, benefits, or a mix of both)
• Company funded Private Medical Healthcare
• Double matched pension (up to 10%)
• 35 days holiday
• A monthly case of our delicious ciders and beers! (low and no alcohol options available)
• Comprehensive Opportunities to develop.
   

You’ll also get the opportunity to get involved with one of our colleague networks where groups of colleagues from all over the business work together to ensure we’re always working towards being a diverse and inclusive company.

Our ways of working 
This role is office based, we currently operate a hybrid working framework which allows us to capture the benefits of both working in the office and at home.  For full-time roles, we work a minimum of 3 days in the office – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with Monday and Friday being our work-from-home days.

In May we’ll be moving to a fantastic new office at 6 St Andrew Square – right in the heart of the city centre.

The office is in a great location with excellent public transport links so it’s really easy to get to whether you’re travelling by train, bus or tram!

With a brilliant selection of restaurants, bars, shops and our very own Star Pubs on our doorstep, you’ll be spoilt for choice for extracurricular activities.  And if you fancy catch up after hours with your colleagues, our in-house  bar with fantastic views of Edinburgh Castle might just be the spot for you!

We’re looking forward to welcoming you to our new home

The application
If you like what you’ve read and are ready to brew a better career with us, let’s get going! We may close vacancies early where we receive lots of applications, so don’t delay!

If you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example if you require information in different formats, or if you have any accessibility issues, then we’re more than happy to review our processes – please feel free to get in touch with us at recruitment@heineken.co.uk.

Who we are
We’re the world’s most international brewer and the name behind a host of brilliant beers and ciders, from Birra Moretti, to Strongbow, to Cruzcampo and many more.

It’s a fantastic time to join us. We’re leading the way in low and no alcohol innovation, pioneering new technologies to meet our ambitious environmental goals and investing in our pubs to keep them at the centre of their communities.

When you join us, we’ll back you to reach your full potential. You’ll enjoy unique development opportunities, unforgettable experiences and a reward package that goes far beyond the salary you receive.

If you want to hear more about life at HEINEKEN from our colleagues, head over to LinkedIn and check out the hashtag #LifeatHEINEKENUK.

There’s no better place to untap your future. Join us and brew a better career.