Senior Procurement Manager

Role overview

Procurement strategy and sourcing

• Develop procurement strategies, category plans, and sourcing programmes aligned with business and operational needs.
• Manage categories including facilities management, building and asset maintenance, engineering, security, concierge, cleaning, waste, landscaping, and recurring operational services.
• Recommend routes to market, contract packaging, and commercial models; identify value, quality, resilience, innovation, and efficiency improvements.
• Prepare sourcing documents, RFPs, invitations to tender, evaluation criteria, and commercial schedules; manage supplier engagement, evaluations, negotiations, and recommendations.
• Coordinate evaluation teams and ensure procurement is consistent, transparent, and compliant; support contract execution with relevant teams.
• Use suitable commercial models for recurring services, including fixed-price, performance-based, reimbursable, and hybrid arrangements.

Contracts, stakeholders, and governance

• Manage supplier relationships, contract governance, performance reviews, KPIs, SLAs, improvement plans, variations, renewals, claims, and disputes.
• Support mobilisation, transition, and implementation; maintain records of contract obligations, pricing, performance, risks, and commercial decisions.
• Work with operational stakeholders and advise facilities, asset, operations, finance, legal, risk, technical, and project teams throughout procurement and contract management.
• Facilitate workshops, requirements reviews, evaluation meetings, and supplier discussions; identify and resolve issues affecting timelines, service, or commercial outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, delegations, and governance; prepare approval papers, business cases, award recommendations, and submissions.
• Support audits and assurance; maintain procurement pipelines, registers, sourcing reports, and savings or value tracking; improve processes, templates, tools, and governance.

Team leadership and delivery

• Guide procurement team members, coordinate resources across concurrent activities, and quality-assure strategies, tender documents, evaluations, and recommendations.
• Support procurement leadership with reporting, planning, and strategic initiatives; deliver assigned projects within agreed timelines, budgets, and governance requirements.

Required qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, or a related field; the posting also lists procurement, supply chain, business, finance, law, engineering, or related disciplines.
• 12+ years of diversified procurement experience across all phases on large global engineering and construction projects, including managerial experience.
• Significant experience in city operations, facilities management, asset operations, or similarly complex operational environments.
• Strong sourcing and contract management experience across facilities management, maintenance, security, cleaning, waste, and operational support.
• Experience managing supplier performance against KPIs, SLAs, and contractual service requirements.
• Experience in category management, procurement governance, stakeholder engagement, recurring-services commercial models, and multiple concurrent end-to-end procurement projects.
• Large-scale developments, smart cities, airports, giga-projects, or complex operational environments are advantageous.
• CIPS or an equivalent professional procurement qualification is preferred.

Key skills

• Strategic sourcing and category management.
• Facilities management and operational services procurement.
• Tender and bid process management, commercial negotiations, and contract lifecycle management.
• Supplier relationship management, KPI and SLA management, and procurement governance.
• Commercial analysis, financial evaluation, stakeholder engagement, and influencing.

Benefits

• The employer describes competitive pay and retirement plans, paid time off and flexible holidays, training and mentorship, wellness programming, and medical, dental, and vision plans.