Senior Procurement Manager

Job Description

Procurement Senior Manager- FM, Real Estate and Office Services

Contract Length: 6 months- likely to be extended

Target Start Date: ASAP

Location: London / Hybrid working- mostly remote working with occasional 1-2 days a month onsite

Rate: Max £650 per day inside IR35

Must have experience

• Procurement experience across FM, Real Estate and Office Services
• Experience working for large international companies in a senior procurement position

Key Responsibilities

• Global leadership for one or more master category strategies for the Real Estate and Office Services industries
• Leadership of key strategic relationships in both the EMEA region and globally
• Recruit, supervise and professionally develop other Procurement team members
• Independently source and negotiate contracts while simultaneously guiding other team members
• Advise Procurement leadership on key trends and strategic decisions
• Manage categories proactively based on internal/external trends and data and be able to communicate effectively to enable informed decisions by leadership
• Manage spend and activity data from multiple sources ensuring high accuracy and timely delivery to identify trends, gaps and opportunities
• Monitor supplier performance based on metrics and update on internal/external trends
• Ability to respond to inquiries from leadership and stakeholders with accuracy and timeliness
• Assess new opportunities for continuous improvement through new technologies and process enhancements
• Assist global category leadership in managing supplier and internal customer relationships to improve internal client satisfaction

Skills Set

• Relationship building, influencing, and collaboration skills
• Experience in managing teams
• Project management experience and Program management experience
• Ability to engage with senior executives to influence decisions
• Persuasive and convincing communication skills (e.g., proposals, reports, plans) to secure commitment from business leaders
• Strong knowledge of standard Category Execution process
• Strong understanding of common sourcing templates, tools, and methodologies
• Deep knowledge of the Master Category Strategy approach
• Ability to interpret member firm needs and commercial strategies as input into the category strategy

Other Qualifications

• Working independently in an unstructured environment; developing structure and clarity around the ambiguous by taking a concept and developing ideas/about solutions to achieve progress
• Being self-directed in identifying what has to get done and in doing it with minimal direction
• Using good judgment about when to ask for direction and when to act independently
• Navigating through complex collaborative initiatives
• Understanding, documenting, and improving business processes
• Organization, task planning and setting/meeting deadlines
• Working under tight time constraints, juggling multiple priorities
• Interacting with internal clients and stakeholders at both junior and senior levels of the organization If this sounds like you apply now or send your CV to