Job Skill: strategic sourcing

  • Global Procurement Lead – Professional Services & Consultancy

    Global Procurement Lead – Professional Services & Consultancy

    London | Hybrid Working | Up to £105,000 + 25% Bonus + Excellent Package

    Already built an impressive procurement career with some of the world’s biggest brands? Looking for another global market leader to add to your CV, with the opportunity to take your career even further?

    An exceptional opportunity has arisen for a high-calibre Professional Services Procurement specialist to join a dominant global market leader during an exciting period of procurement transformation.

    With a global spend portfolio running into the hundreds of millions, this role offers the opportunity to take ownership of major Professional Services and Consultancy categories, working alongside some of the strongest procurement professionals in the market.

    The organisation is investing heavily in elevating its procurement function, increasing its strategic influence across the business and creating exciting opportunities for ambitious individuals to step into more senior positions as the function evolves.

    The Opportunity

    • Lead global procurement strategy across Professional Services, Management Consultancy, Legal Services and wider Consulting spend.

    • Manage significant global spend, developing category strategies and leading complex, high-value negotiations.

    • Build strategic relationships with major global consultancies and professional services providers.

    • Partner with senior stakeholders across international business units to drive commercial value and supplier innovation.

    • Play a key role in the continued evolution of a procurement function moving towards a genuinely best-in-class operating model.

    What They’re Looking For

    • Strong Professional Services and Consultancy Procurement experience, ideally within large multinational organisations.

    • Proven experience managing global categories, significant spend portfolios and complex strategic sourcing programmes.

    • A background working for major blue-chip organisations with sophisticated procurement functions.

    • Excellent commercial negotiation, supplier relationship management and senior stakeholder engagement skills.

    • An ambitious, commercially astute individual with the credibility and drive to progress into more senior procurement leadership positions.

    Alongside the scale and complexity of the role, the organisation offers an exceptional working culture, exposure to highly accomplished procurement leaders and genuine opportunities for career development.

    For someone who has already established themselves within global procurement and wants to add another prestigious name to their CV, take ownership of a major international portfolio and position themselves for the next step into procurement leadership, this is an opportunity well worth exploring.

    To find out more, please apply directly through this page or send your CV to Devan at d.amin@bramwith.com

  • IT Procurement Manager

    IT Procurement Manager – Technology & Transformation

    Milton Keynes | Hybrid Working

    Up to £80,000 + Bonus + Excellent Package

    An exciting opportunity for an experienced IT Procurement professional to join one of the UK’s largest and most recognisable organisations at the forefront of a major business and procurement transformation.

    With significant investment and change underway, this is an opportunity to manage major technology spend, work with senior stakeholders and play an important role in shaping how procurement supports the organisation’s evolving technology landscape.

    The Role

    • Lead end-to-end IT Procurement and strategic sourcing initiatives
    • Manage complex technology spend, with a particular focus on Software and SaaS
    • Develop and implement category and sourcing strategies
    • Lead commercial negotiations with major technology suppliers
    • Partner with senior Technology and business stakeholders
    • Support major transformation programmes while driving savings, value and supplier performance

    What They’re Looking For

    • Strong IT / Technology Procurement experience
    • Good exposure to Software Procurement, with broader SaaS, IT Services, Cloud or Infrastructure experience beneficial
    • Strong strategic sourcing, negotiation and category management capability
    • Experience working within Financial Services would be beneficial, but is not essential
    • Confidence operating within a large, complex stakeholder environment

    This is an excellent opportunity to join a major household-name organisation during a period of significant change, gaining exposure to large-scale technology programmes, complex procurement projects and a transformation that will reshape the business for years to come.

    To find out more, please apply directly through this page or send your CV to Devan at d.amin@bramwith.com

  • Indirect Procurement Lead – Legal & Consultancy Services

    Indirect Procurement Lead – Legal & Consultancy Services

    London | Hybrid Working | Up to £105,000 + Excellent Package

    This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Indirect Procurement professional to join a dominant global market leader and take ownership of a major strategic spend portfolio worth hundreds of millions.

    The organisation is rapidly evolving its procurement function, moving towards an increasingly strategic, best-in-class model and elevating how procurement partners with the wider business. You’ll join a genuinely high-calibre team, working alongside some of the strongest procurement professionals in the market while taking ownership of a complex, globally significant category portfolio.

    The Opportunity

    • Leading global procurement strategy across Legal Services, Consultancy and wider Professional Services

    • Managing a spend portfolio running into the hundreds of millions

    • Developing and executing category strategies across complex, high-value services

    • Leading major strategic sourcing initiatives and negotiations with global law firms, consultancies and professional services providers

    • Partnering with senior and executive-level stakeholders across an international organisation

    • Driving commercial value, supplier innovation and procurement best practice as the function continues to evolve

    What They’re Looking For

    • Strong Indirect Procurement / Professional Services Procurement experience

    • Depth of experience across Legal Services and/or Consultancy Services would be particularly valuable

    • Proven experience managing significant spend and leading complex, high-value negotiations

    • Excellent strategic sourcing, category management and supplier relationship management capability

    • The credibility to influence senior stakeholders within a large, complex global organisation

    • A commercially minded, ambitious individual who wants to operate within a genuinely best-in-class procurement environment

    Alongside the scale and global scope of the position, the culture is a major selling point. The organisation has built an environment where talented people are trusted, supported and given the opportunity to develop, while the ongoing procurement transformation creates significant scope to make an impact and progress.

    For someone looking to combine global category ownership, enormous spend, exceptional colleagues and a rapidly evolving procurement function, this is an opportunity that stands out from a typical BAU category leadership role.

    To find out more, please apply directly through this page or send your CV to Devan at d.amin@bramwith.com

  • Senior Buyer – Indirect Procurement & Strategy

    Senior Buyer – Indirect Procurement & Strategy

    London | Hybrid – 3 Days per Week | £45,000 + Package

    This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious procurement professional to join a major global professional services organisation at an exciting stage of its procurement transformation.

    The role will support the development of procurement within a key business unit, using data, analytics and market insight to help shape procurement strategy, identify opportunities and improve how the organisation manages its indirect spend.

    For someone earlier in their procurement career, this offers exposure well beyond traditional buying, with the opportunity to work alongside experienced procurement leaders and develop across strategy, analytics, sourcing and stakeholder management.

    The Role

    • Using procurement data, spend analysis and reporting to identify savings and sourcing opportunities
    • Supporting the development and implementation of procurement and category strategies
    • Supporting indirect sourcing and purchasing activity across a broad range of categories
    • Producing reporting and insight to support procurement decision-making
    • Working with stakeholders to improve procurement processes and increase engagement
    • Delivering training and guidance around procurement systems and best practice

    What They’re Looking For

    • Experience within procurement, purchasing or buying, including an understanding of purchase orders and procurement processes
    • Strong Excel, reporting and data analysis capability
    • An analytical mindset with the ability to turn data into meaningful commercial insight
    • Some experience delivering training or supporting stakeholders
    • Most importantly, a proactive, inquisitive and critical-thinking approach, with the confidence to use initiative

    This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to accelerate their procurement career rather than wait for responsibility to come to them. You’ll join early in a wider procurement transformation, gain exposure to building procurement strategy from the ground up and have significant scope to develop as the function evolves.

    To find out more, please apply directly through this page or send your CV to Devan at d.amin@bramwith.com