Location
Westminster Bridge Road

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£46,125 per annum

About the Role
We’re looking for a Procurement Manager to lead high-value, complex procurement activity and support the development of category management strategies across the organisation. You will act as a trusted commercial advisor, ensuring compliance with procurement legislation, delivering value-for-money outcomes, and building strong relationships with stakeholders and suppliers. This is a key role within our Procurement function, supporting strategic sourcing, market engagement, risk management and contract delivery. You will play a vital part in strengthening our procurement capability and driving best practice across the Group.

What you’ll do:
- Lead and manage high-value (above-threshold) procurement projects in line with agreed category and procurement strategies, overseeing market engagement, option appraisals, evaluations, negotiations and contract execution.
- Support Procurement Business Partners with the development and implementation of category strategies, ensuring alignment with business objectives, legislation and best practice.
- Provide expert advice, challenge and guidance on Procurement Policy, the Public Contracts Regulations and all relevant legislation to ensure compliance across the Group.
- Build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders at all levels, fostering a joined-up approach to the procurement of goods, services and works.
- Maintain an accurate forward plan of contracts, ensuring visibility of upcoming requirements and future activity.
- Promote a culture of integrity, ethics and compliance, ensuring controls are robust, risks are managed, and policies are understood and adhered to.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of procurement processes, documentation, commercial assurance and risk mitigation.

Experience
- Delivering category, procurement and/or contract management strategies with measurable cashable and non-cashable benefits.
- Working as a procurement professional in a large, complex organisation.
- Leading procurement projects using structured methodologies such as PRINCE2, meeting required time, cost and quality parameters.
- Leading public procurement procedures with knowledge of both PCR15 and PA23.
- Expert understanding of procurement systems, legislation, policy, guidance and best practice across multiple categories of spend.
- Ability to interpret and work with commercial contract terms and conditions.

About you
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build strong networks and work collaboratively.
- Strong communication skills (written, verbal and presentation), supported by sound IT capability (Microsoft Office and procurement systems).

Qualifications
Relevant professional qualification(s), such as CIPS Level 5 (or working towards).