Strategic Procurement Manager

Strategic Procurement Manager
High Peak
£50,000 - £60,000 Benefits

Are you a commercially driven procurement professional who thrives on challenging spending, driving cost savings and influencing senior stakeholders? Do you enjoy getting into the detail while also shaping strategy and bringing structure to an evolving function?

If you are confident negotiator with experience across both indirect and direct spend and you're looking for a role with real ownership and impact, this could be the opportunity for you. The role is a hybrid-based role, 3 days in the office and 2 days work from home.

Role Profile

Our client is an innovative and growing business with operations across multiple UK sites and a highly technical workforce. The business is now looking to recruit a Strategic Procurement Manager to take real ownership of procurement activity across the organisation.

This is a high impact role with responsibility over annual spend in excess of £10m, covering both direct and indirect categories. The role presents an opportunity to introduce structure, improve visibility and drive a more strategic approach. Reporting to the CFO, you will partner with senior stakeholders across wider business functions, ensuring spending is value-add and aligned to business objectives.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead procurement activity across both direct and indirect spend categories, delivering measurable cost savings.
• Negotiate supplier contracts, SLAs and commercial terms across areas including consumables, services and operational spend.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to challenge and justify spending decisions.
• Identify and deliver cost-saving opportunities while ensuring quality, service and reliability are maintained.
• Review and improve procurement systems, including PO processes, spend control and approval workflows.
• Develop supplier performance frameworks, including KPIs, scorecards and regular review processes.
• Analyse spend data to improve forecasting, reporting and decision making.
• Line manage and support the development of an experienced Buyer handling day-to-day procurement activity.

Key Skills & Experience

• Proven experience working in a strategic procurement role, with demonstrable record of delivering YoY procurement cost savings.
• Strong negotiation skills with the confidence to challenge both suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Strong supplier management focus, with experience in managing SLA's, scorecards, quarterly reviews etc.
• Experience across both direct and indirect procurement categories.
• Background in manufacturing, pharmaceutical, FMCG, engineering or similarly complex environments.
• Ability to operate in a developing procurement environment and implement structured improvements.
• Commercially minded, with the ability to balance cost, quality and operational requirements.
• Comfortable working with data sets - analysing spend and improving visibility.
• Management experience in a previous role would be advantageous.

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