Head of Procurement

Head of Procurement - REQUIREMENTS:You will be an accomplished senior procurement leader with a proven background in customer high-growth organisations - ideally with exposure to private equity environments, but not essential.

| back ground across challenger brands, or high-tech businesses where digitisation and automation are at the core would be beneficial.

Ideally an industry background in construction, energy, infrastructure, or rail would preferable.

Strong commercial acumen - you'll need to excel in negotiations, stakeholder management cost control, and vendor accountability, in order to drive measurable savings.

Backed by experience in digitisation and automation, you'll use technology to enhance visibility, governance, and efficiency across procurement processes and implementation.

Experience designing and delivering a CoE across new procurement teams to underpin standards and processes at an early stage would be ideal.

As an influential leader - and reporting directly into the exec team - you'll inspire cultural change, embedding cost-consciousness, customer focus, and best practice across the business.Other:

• Extensive experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, category management and supply chain optimisation is required.
• Strong negotiation skills and a track record of delivering cost savings.
• In-depth knowledge of procurement processes, policies, and compliance standards.
• Excellent leadership capabilities with the ability to manage, mentor, expand a team.
• Proficiency in analysing market trends and supplier performance data.
• A strategic mindset with a focus on achieving long-term organisational goals.