Senior Procurement Manager
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Senior Procurement Manager leading strategic procurement, supplier negotiations, and a small team for Action for Children. Improving purchasing efficiency and governance supporting vulnerable children across the UK.
Responsibilities:
- Strategically manage commercial procurement across a wide range of large-scale spend categories
- Support changes to the organisation’s procurement approach at all levels
- Maximise efficiencies and ensure effective procurement systems are in place
- Develop, lead, and manage a small procurement team
- Develop and maintain key stakeholder relationships and provide procurement guidance and solutions
- Update and implement Action for Children’s procurement strategy
- Manage outsourcing partners through competitive tender exercises or negotiation
- Apply supplier selection and management strategies
- Negotiate commercial and contractual arrangements with suppliers
- Drive compliance and manage controls, governance, and processes
- Manage the complete procure-to-pay process
- Oversee the professional or technical category portfolio, prioritise spend activity, identify cost savings, tender, and manage supplier and product/service lifecycles
Requirements:
- MCIPS Qualified
- Experience in a procurement environment
- Experience managing high-value contracts
- Experience in a not-for-profit or public sector environment preferred
- Ability to influence behavioural change and stakeholders and shape requirements
- Ability to build and maintain supplier relationships and establish relationships with new suppliers
- Proven ability to guide and advise on complex procurement matters
- Experience developing and reviewing a procurement strategy
- Experience managing staff and role-modelling professional standards and behaviours
- Demonstrable understanding of EDI policies and their application in the workplace
- Must be based in the UK
- Visa sponsorship is not available
- DBS Basic vetting level required
Benefits:
- 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Up to 5 additional days’ leave for continuous service
- Option to buy and sell leave
- Paid annual Wellbeing Day
- Professional qualifications, training, and development opportunities
- Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
- Pension with up to a 7% employer contribution
- Life assurance cover for pension contributors
- Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers
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