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:
Skills Set
Other Qualifications
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
