Marketing Print Procurement Consultant at The… · Royal…

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our Procurement Team on an interim base, to lead a Marketing Print Transformation project.

OurCoop, was created through the merger of three Co-op’s (Central England Co-operative, Chelmsford Star Co-operative, and Midcounties Co-operative) at the beginning if 2026. This role is to consolidate the marketing print services across our family of businesses, with one provider, and with a view to working with our retail media sales agency. This is a key integration project.

The successful candidate will either be from a Marketing Procurement Category / Lead background, or the successful candidate maybe from a Marketing Agency or Print background. The candidate will need to be able to demonstrate they have run RFP’s for marketing print in the past, and be able to demonstrate a understanding of the category.

This role will be a stand-alone role, reporting into the Senior Procurement Manager for this category, looking after the full procurement life cycle, from the proposed Procurement Strategy, requirements gathering and creating the specification, market analysis, running the RFP, negotiating commercials, and the contract alongside our outsourced legal provider, and finally on-boarding and implementing the chose supplier. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate having hands on experience of all these disciplines

The successful candidate will be leading this procurement project, to achieve the best value for money, whilst ensuring high levels of quality, whilst building both long-term relationships and meeting supply chain sustainability objectives, all conducted in line with our procurement policy.

The role requires the successful candidate to be a self-starter, great at project management and to be adept at managing senior stakeholder relationships, as this role will give you exposure to working with senior leaders in Our Co-op.

You will be working primarily in our retail business, which is a fast-paced environment, and requires a lens of innovation and simplification, as we drive efficiencies and increase productivity working with our suppliers.

You will work with our outsourced legal provider in drafting contracts, so experience of working with contracts would be of a distinct advantage.

Please note this is a contractor position - outside of IR35.

Hours may vary.

Qualifications

We are looking for an enthusiastic, passionate and driven individual to join us in this role, utmost we are looking for an individual who is curious by nature and will challenge the status quo.

Ideally, you’ll bring 8+ years demonstratable experience of working either in a Marketing Procurement Category / Lead role with demonstrable experience role of Print Management, or from a Marketing Agency or Print Management background with experience of running RFP’s and on-boarding new print suppliers.

Experience of working in one of the aforementioned roles, for a retailer with 100+ locations, and working with sales or a retail media agency, will be of a distinct advantage.

From time to time, you will be asked to support projects from other categories.

The successful candidate will be a team player- you will need to be able to demonstrate your ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, as well as showing curiosity and a confidence to challenge where appropriate.

Everyone is welcome here. We’re happy to make reasonable adjustments so that all our candidates can show us how they’ll perform their role. There is a section in the application form where you can provide any additional information. Please use this section to include any reasonable adjustments you need, and we’ll do our best to support you through our recruitment process.

Benefits

OurCoop is the UK’s largest independent co-operative Society, with more than one million Members and 13,000 colleagues operating in communities nationwide. It was formed by bringing together Central Co-op, The Midcounties Co-operative and Chelmsford Star Co-op to create a stronger, member-owned organisation rooted in shared co-operative values.

The Society trades nationally through its family of businesses while remaining deeply rooted in local communities. Its footprint spans Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Bedfordshire in the South and West; the Midlands including Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire; the North including Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Yorkshire; and the East of England, including Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.

The enthusiasm and commitment of our colleagues is what keeps our customers coming back, and every role plays an important part in making a real difference each day.