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About The Company

Leicester City Football Club, also known as the Foxes, is a top-flight English football club.

In 2015/16, ranked as 5000-1 outsiders, Leicester City were crowned Premier League champions. 

Leicester City Football Club is an ambitious and forward-thinking club. It is deeply committed to the local community and its supporters and continually strives to ensure that every point of engagement with fans is truly world-class including the experience on matchdays.

The Club is now continuing to make significant strategic investments across the whole organisation and major expansion plans are in hand. It is an extremely exciting time for the Club with a new state-of-the-art 180-acre, £100M training ground set to open next year. 

About The Role 

Based at the King Power Stadium, the key responsibilities for the role include:

• Managing tender processes across multiple commodities in accordance with agreed project deliverables
• Leading negotiation of commercial tenders, contract terms
• Managing suppliers' performance against arrangements and to manage key relationships with stakeholders and consultants
• Co-ordinating and supporting cross functional working with senior stakeholders
• Engaging with stakeholders to review and challenge specifications and develop robust procurement strategies

Who We’re Looking For

Skills and experience required:

• Demonstrable significant high value procurement/purchasing responsibility which shows good commercial influencing and negotiation skills
• An aptitude for dealing with complex issues and limited budgets, reorganising priorities, and multi-tasking on concurrent projects in a frequently changing environment is essential
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Strong commercial acumen
• Self-starter with the ability to work autonomously if required
• Experience of dealing with strong personalities and the gravitas to challenge when appropriate 

Benefits Package 

Leicester City Football Club offers a competitive salary and pension scheme with life assurance to all its permanent employees. Employees are able to benefit from free onsite parking as well as up to 33 days’ annual leave including bank holidays.

Contract Type – Fixed Term until 31 July, 2020
Hours Per Week – 37.5 per week

Leicester City Football Club is an equal opportunities employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. 

Leicester City Football Club is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. As such, you may be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure & Barring Service and prior to taking up any role. 

A shortlist of suitable applicants will be compiled shortly after the closing date and successful candidates will be contacted about the interview process.

If you feel you have the qualities and experience we are looking for please apply by sending your application form and CV, along with a covering letter, by email to recruitment@lcfc.co.uk.

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Closing Date – 22 September, 2019