Procurement Manager

We are seeking a commercial and collaborative Procurement Manager to join our Finance team's Vendor function. Reporting to the Head of Procurement, you will play a central role in shaping how we buy, negotiate, and manage key partnerships across technology, operations, and our people teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end procurement activity for complex, high-value contracts across technology, data, operational services, and people team categories.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies that create genuine market competition and deliver measurable cost savings and value.
• Build and maintain commercial models from supplier quotes to identify negotiation opportunities and inform strategy.
• Own contract renewals, ensuring no auto-renewal is missed and every renewal is approached with a clear commercial plan.
• Negotiate contract terms, pricing, SLAs, and exit provisions that protect the business and reflect market rates.
• Manage agreements post-contract by measuring the relationship against agreed SLAs, engaging with internal stakeholders, and ensuring a regular cadence of MI meetings with material strategic suppliers.
• Look for opportunities to optimise vendor's commercial and operational performance as well as internal processes.
• Identify, document, and agree requirements at the beginning of a project to provide clarity during the contracting, negotiation, and sign-off process.
• Maintain a sound working knowledge base of category supplier capacities in the market, category market trends, and developments.
• Ensure that all procurement and contractual workflows are maintained and kept up to date within the contract management system.
• Build healthy and productive relationships with key internal stakeholders within category spend areas.
• Contribute to Monthly reporting and updates to Executives (VMF).
• Champion procurement best practice across the business, improving commercial awareness and policy compliance.

Requirements

Knowledge & Experience

• 0–3 years of procurement experience.
• Educated to degree level
• Experience working in Financial Services.
• Experience working on SaaS contracts.

Behaviours & Competencies

• Strong commercial analysis skills with the ability to build cost models, interpret supplier financials, and identify negotiation levers.
• Excellent negotiation skills with a demonstrable ability to achieve strong commercial outcomes.
• Contractually literate with the ability to negotiate around the finer points of an agreement.
• High standard of written output with the ability to produce clear, accurate, and commercially focused documents and analysis.
• Great relationship-building, communication, problem-solving, organisational, and time management skills, maintained with an overall collaborative approach.
• Ability to work with significant independence, exercise sound judgement in ambiguous situations, and take ownership of decisions.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
• Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
• 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
• Life insurance at 4x your salary
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care.
• Generous family-friendly policies
• Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks