Procurement Manager

Procurement Manager

Milton Keynes | Hybrid | £75,000 – £90,000

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Procurement Manager to join a newly established organisation delivering a major UK-wide environmental infrastructure programme.

This is a newly created role offering the opportunity to build and shape a procurement function from the ground up, establishing robust processes, governance and best practice within a fast-paced and evolving environment.

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Commercial, you will play a key role in developing the organisation's procurement capability, ensuring that procurement activity delivers value for money while maintaining strong governance, transparency and compliance.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the design and implementation of procurement policies, procedures and governance frameworks.

• Developing procurement templates, approval processes and internal controls.

• Leading and supporting strategic sourcing exercises, tendering and contract negotiations.

• Identifying, evaluating and onboarding suppliers.

• Developing strong supplier relationships and managing supplier performance.

• Driving cost efficiencies and identifying opportunities for savings and operational improvement.

• Ensuring procurement activity meets legal, regulatory and funding requirements.

• Establishing robust audit trails and mitigating commercial and supply-chain risk.

• Developing and managing contracts, including performance measures, renewals, variations and disputes.

• Working closely with Finance, Operations, IT, Marketing and Programme teams to understand requirements and provide procurement guidance.

• Acting as a trusted adviser to stakeholders on purchasing and commercial decisions.

About You

We are looking for a highly capable procurement professional who has experience building and developing procurement functions, ideally within a new, evolving or start-up environment.

You will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment where processes are still being established, bringing structure, commercial discipline and a proactive approach.

You should have experience across:

• Developing category strategies and multi-year procurement plans.

• Managing the full end-to-end sourcing lifecycle.

• Strategic sourcing and supplier selection.

• Complex contract negotiation and management.

• Make vs buy analysis, should-cost modelling and value engineering.

• Drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, including T&Cs and MSAs.

• Advanced Excel, including modelling and pivot tables.

• Procurement governance, compliance and risk management.

CIPS Level 5/6 or MCIPS would be advantageous, although not essential.

Why This Role?

This is a rare opportunity to join an organisation at a significant stage of growth and have genuine ownership in establishing a procurement function from scratch.

You will have the opportunity to influence procurement strategy, supplier relationships, cost efficiency and governance while contributing to a major programme with significant environmental and economic impact.

If you're a procurement professional who enjoys building, improving and shaping, and you're looking for a role where you can make a tangible difference, we'd love to hear from you.

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