Role: Procurement Manager - Professional Services

Location: Greater Manchester (50% Hybrid Working)

Salary: Up to £70K + Excellent Package

1st Executive are seeking a Professional Services Procurement Manager on behalf of a high-profile FTSE100 organisation - who have demonstrated record growth over the past 24 months! They continue to transform their customer facing propositions as well as their internal business models, with Procurement playing a key role in providing early access to new tools and solutions offered by their 3rd party supply partners. This is a fantastic role with an organisation who are actively encouraging innovation and creativity to ensure the business is able to meet its on-going growth ambitions in a fast moving industry!

Role:

• You will be responsible for the delivery of end to end sourcing projects across the breadth of the Professional Services and Consultancy portfolio
• Operating in a "business partner" capacity, you will engage C-Level stakeholders, nurturing relationships to ensure the value of Procurement is recognised.
• You will guide and mentor your internal customers through full lifecycle sourcing projects spanning the professional services sub-categories, identifying opportunities to innovate the way the at 3rd party consultancy solutions are utilised.
• You will be responsible for the definition and implementation of category strategies.
• In turn, you will be expected to introduce best in class supplier management initiatives as well as further innovative 'value-add' procurement initiatives.

Experience:

• Procurement experience gained in the Professional Services & Consultancy category
• Demonstrate some experience of working in a regulated industry sector - ideally Financial Services
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skill-set; demonstrating success in influencing decision making in a business partner capacity
• Evidence of developing 3-5 year Category Strategies
• Degree and/or CIPS qualified is preferred

***Due to our clients requirements, applicants must be based in the UK and hold current/valid UK RTW***