In this role of Procurement Specialist, Facilities Management & Construction, you drive the Sales Market strategy to secure an efficient, compliant, and future-ready supplier base aligned with Global Construction & Facilities Management standards. You lead sourcing, contracting, supplier performance, and commercial governance to ensure strong partnerships, consistent compliance, and cost-efficient, high-quality operations across markets. With a primary focus on Facilities Management and Construction spend, you support a retail portfolio of 240+ locations across the UK and Ireland, ensuring commercial value, effective supplier governance, and operational excellence.
You are a strategic and structured procurement professional with strong analytical ability, negotiation skills, and a deep understanding of procurement processes and standards. Working closely with Facilities Management and Construction teams, you bring commercial expertise to complex contracts, pricing, supplier risk, and project delivery, while influencing cross-functional stakeholders and ensuring compliance with global guidelines. This is a specialist individual contributor role with no direct reports, responsible for building sustainable supplier partnerships that balance cost, quality, risk, and long-term business needs.
Some of your responsibilities include:
- Develop and execute the procurement strategy for the Sales Market in close collaboration with Global C&F Strategists and in line with the global C&F strategy and vision.
- Set and follow up on procurement goals and KPIs, ensuring strong supplier performance, effective governance, and continuous improvement.
- Secure an efficient C&F supplier base that enables expansion, FM service delivery, and project execution, while driving optimized investments, running costs, and operational efficiency.
- Provide commercial support and expertise across Facilities Management and Construction contracts, including contract portfolio management, supplier risk, pricing reviews, and cost optimization.
- Review, update, and draft procurement documentation in partnership with Legal, ensuring full alignment with global standards and correct implementation in the Sales Market.
- Implement and reinforce global procurement guidelines, ensuring the Sales Market stays fully compliant with the latest global requirements.
- Support Sales Markets across the full procurement cycle, including sourcing, tenders, negotiations, contractor onboarding, and contract management, ensuring risk is managed and value is delivered.
- Partner closely with Facilities Management Contract Managers and Project Managers on budgets, forecasting, cost analysis, and commercial decision-making, providing challenge, insight, and assurance.
- Support the governance and performance management of integrated FM providers, including performance frameworks, change control processes, and supplier development.
- Plan and secure project delivery capacity through a combination of internal and external resources, supporting the successful execution of the Facilities and Construction project pipeline.
- Collaborate closely with C&F teams and Legal within the Sales Market, as well as with the Global Procurement Strategist.
- Lead or co-lead cross-market procurement activities initiated by Global Procurement Strategists, and support contract management for cross-market agreements.
WHO YOU ARE
We welcome applicants who are:
- Degree in Business Administration, Law, Commercial Management, Construction Management, or equivalent work experience.
- Experienced within Procurement, Facility Management, Construction, or the built environment.
- Proven in setting up and implementing procurement strategies, with strong procurement, commercial, and negotiation skills.
- Experienced in managing complex contracts, commercial structures, and supplier relationships.
- Strong in financial and cost analysis, with the confidence to challenge suppliers and internal stakeholders to drive value and efficiency.
- Excellent in supplier management, governance, and performance management.
- Analytical, strategic, and methodical in problem solving.
- Experienced in sourcing, tendering, contractor onboarding, and contract management.
- Knowledgeable in pass-through costs, managing agent arrangements, gain share mechanisms, and commercial contract models.
- Familiar with Facilities Management service contracts, construction procurement, and project delivery environments.
- Experienced in energy procurement and working with external consultants and service providers.
- Comfortable working across multiple stakeholders and seniority levels within an international organisation.
- Experienced in a multi-site retail environment or large property portfolio is highly advantageous.
- Proficient in MS Office (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint), Power BI, and MS Teams.
WHO WE ARE
H&M Group is a global company of strong fashion brands and ventures. Our goal is to prove that there is no compromise between exceptional design, affordable prices, and sustainable solutions. We want to liberate fashion for the many, and our customers are at the heart of every decision we make.
We are made up of thousands of passionate and talented colleagues united by our shared culture and values. Together, we want to use our power, our scale, and our knowledge to push the fashion industry towards a more inclusive and sustainable future.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE
At H&M Group, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company. We offer our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe.
All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, & Other Stories, ARKET, Singular Society and Sellpy. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.
JOIN US
Our uniqueness comes from a combination of many things – our inclusive and collaborative culture, our strong values, and opportunities for growth. But most of all, it’s our people who make us who we are.
Take the next step in your career together with us. The journey starts here.
Additional information
This is a permanent position, based in our London Support Office.
*For more information on how we process your personal data, please see our Privacy Notice.
**We are committed to a recruitment process that is fair, equitable, and based on competency. We therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter to your application.
