# Procurement Manager **Company**: Starling **Experience**: mid **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://apply.workable.com/j/B470A3080B?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_5210b3a0-269 ## Description 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 ## Skills ### Required - procurement - commercial analysis - negotiation - contract management - supplier relationship management ### Nice to have - SaaS contracts - Financial Services --- Source: [Apply at apply.workable.com](https://apply.workable.com/j/B470A3080B?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)