Senior Procurement Manager

Role overview

Strategy and portfolio leadership

• Own portfolio procurement strategy and performance, shaping routes to market, packaging, supplier engagement, and aggregation opportunities.
• Lead critical negotiations and high-value procurement activity; track value across cost, certainty, risk, resilience, innovation, carbon, and social value.

Supply chain and market development

• Assess supply-chain capacity against programme demand and develop mitigation plans, market engagement, and supplier capacity priorities.
• Lead supplier segmentation and develop strategic relationships, improvement plans, alternative supply options, and innovative delivery models.

Leadership and stakeholder engagement

• Lead and develop procurement managers, buyers, and graduates; deploy resources and build capability and succession plans.
• Advise senior stakeholders, represent procurement at governance and customer forums, and lead procurement input to bids and preconstruction.

Governance and assurance

• Ensure procurement follows delegated authorities, customer requirements, and business procedures; oversee sourcing, tendering, evaluation, and awards.
• Work with Commercial leadership on contractual risk, value, and delivery certainty; maintain audit readiness and consistent standards.

Essential experience

• Significant procurement leadership experience in infrastructure, utilities, energy, construction, or another major-project environment.
• Experience leading procurement across multiple projects, programmes, or portfolios, including through senior procurement professionals.
• Strong strategic sourcing, subcontract procurement, supplier management, and commercial negotiation experience.
• Experience supporting work winning, preconstruction, mobilisation, and project delivery.