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Senior Procurement Pofessional

Ref: 130914

London, UK

£140,000 | £800 per day

  • Permanent / Contract
  • Greenfield Procurement Transformation
  • Global Indirect Spend Leadership
  • Immediately Available

About the candidate

MCIPS-qualified global procurement leader with 18+ years’ experience building procurement functions from the ground up across fast-paced, international environments. They are a greenfield specialist with a technology-first approach, reporting into CFO-level stakeholders and partnering confidently across C-suite teams.

With experience across technology, marketing, HR, corporate services, facilities, finance, real estate and supply chain categories, they have managed major global indirect spend portfolios and led procurement transformation across high-growth technology, marketing services, hospitality, retail and regulated consumer sectors. They are immediately available and open to permanent or contract opportunities.

What makes them great?

  • Proven savings delivery: Delivered approximately £5.5m in approved savings while managing around £180m of global indirect spend, with previous delivery including approximately £6.5m in-year savings and a £12m run-rate benefit.
  • Greenfield leadership: Built multiple procurement functions from scratch, scaling teams of up to 8 and embedding global policy, governance and commercial ways of working.
  • Major transformation impact: Led high-value technology and systems projects, including global platform consolidations and implementations generating savings of around £4m and £5m on major finance and HR programmes.

Areas of expertise

  • Global Procurement Strategy: Experienced in creating greenfield procurement functions, developing governance, shaping category strategies and embedding best-practice buying processes across international teams.
  • Technology & Process Transformation: Strong track record delivering P2P, ERP, contract management and supplier orchestration tools to improve compliance, visibility and third-party spend control.
  • Executive Stakeholder Management: Confident working with CFOs, executive teams and senior budget holders to influence commercial decisions and drive procurement adoption.