<p style="min-height:1.5em">As our next Commercial Contracts Senior Lead, you'll play a key role in helping us build the UK's go-to home improvement marketplace. You'll own the negotiation, management and continuous improvement of our strategic supplier agreements, leading high-value contract negotiations while shaping the Supplier Hub, our modern, tech-enabled home for how we select, contract with, onboard and manage every supplier we work with.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This isn't a traditional procurement role. It's a genuinely modern one, built for someone who wants to champion the practical use of AI, using and building AI-assisted workflows and agents to change how we analyse contracts, prepare for negotiations and manage supplier governance across the business.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Forget long lists, here’s what you’ll actually spend your time on</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Negotiating high value contracts with our critical partners - all types, all parts of the business</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Leading from the front with AI in built to your daily process - constantly improving, always innovating</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Being relentless in delivering streamlined and best in class solutions for growth and optimising spend in all areas of the business</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Working closely with key senior stakeholders for simplicity and success in establishing clear commercial supplier management strategy and processes</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>It's not about ticking every box. It's about turning up curious, ready to crack on. You'll do well here if you bring:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Significant experience negotiating complex commercial contracts with Tier 1 and strategically important suppliers, comfortable balancing big-picture strategy with hands-on execution.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A track record of managing and improving contract lifecycle systems, building governance frameworks and scalable processes in a fast-paced environment.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Hands-on experience (or genuine eagerness to build) AI-assisted workflows, automations or agents, plus real comfort connecting platforms, data and workflows across different teams and systems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong stakeholder influence, comfortable partnering with and influencing Legal, Finance, Technology and C-suite stakeholders, with a naturally curious, iterative builder mindset.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A naturally curious, commercially minded builder: someone keen to understand how suppliers create value, unafraid to challenge the status quo, and energised by testing, simplifying and improving how things work.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em">Bonus points if you've got experience in a high-growth digital marketplac