Procurement Associate - IFS

A career in Procurement, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to develop and manage the procurement of all goods and services required by PwC for operational and strategic purposes. As a part of the team, you’ll assist in developing our standard practices and compliance infrastructure, managing relationships for both internal clients and suppliers to aid in the strategic selection of suppliers, supplier diversity, and contract negotiations.

Procurement sits within the centralised Finance Function and is managed by the Director of Procurement, the team is responsible for the development of

procurement processes, procedures, strategy development, implementation/administration of procurement activities, optimisation of

procurement spend via category management, as well as supporting the operational aspects of the agreement with the operations team and spend.

The Procurement Officer reports to the Procurement Category Lead and is responsible for supporting the optimisation of the category spend within the

operating procurement business stream. The team is the primary point of contact for cost review, optimisation analysis, tendering, contract review and

negotiation with key vendors across all spend categories.

Follow procurement strategy set by team leadership, focusing on high opportunity areas of spend, and identifying challenging procurement spend

savings across the business

▪ Assist the Procurement Category Lead with the management of category spend, defining category strategies, working to optimise the contract terms,

costing and quality of services delivered. Reviewing vendor performance and benchmarking across the region.

▪ Supports the RFI / RFP processes within the spend categories, including creation of scopes of work, technical and commercial evaluation,

recommendation and facilitation of sign off with key stakeholders ▪ Reviews contract terms and recommends amendments that support the

position of / benefits PwC , particularly strategies for financial negotiations for all significant areas of spend, with aim of achieving year on year