Procurement Senior Manager/Director

Teneo

Responsibilities

• Spend visibility & analysis: Build a clear picture of current and ongoing supplier spend to identify priority categories and track progress.
• Sourcing & negotiations: Lead sourcing activity in high-value and high-impact categories as we agree.
• Supplier management: Introduce preferred supplier arrangements, consolidate fragmented spend, and establish supplier performance management.
• Policy & governance: Develop and implement simple procurement policies and processes (e.g. spend thresholds, competitive tendering requirements) whilst remaining agile and without unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Contract management: Support the business, working with our Legal Team, in reviewing and negotiating supplier contracts, ensuring best value and risk mitigation.
• Stakeholder engagement: Build relationships with budget holders and provide commercial challenge while enabling the business to succeed.
• Reporting & savings delivery: Track and report savings, compliance, and procurement initiatives to the CFO.

Skills and Experience

Basic requirements

• Proven procurement experience (7 + years) with broad exposure to indirect categories.
• Strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated success in delivering savings and introducing pragmatic procurement discipline in organisations with low prior maturity.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and EQ, with the confidence to engage stakeholders and colleagues at all levels across disciplines.
• Comfortable working autonomously in a greenfield environment
• Demonstrated success in delivering savings and introducing pragmatic procurement discipline in organisations with low prior maturity.
• Ability and willingness to operate as both a strategist and a hands-on practitioner.

Preferred requirements

• Experience of working in a professional services environment.
• Experience operating globally with stakeholders located across multiple geographies
• Experienced in leading procurement transformation initiatives, transitioning from manual operations to automated systems/workflows
• Track record of building and developing teams