Procurement Support Manager
On-siteFarnborough, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Manage and coordinate TLL procurement activity across a secure programme, ensuring actions, approvals, documentation, and supplier inputs are tracked and progressed. Maintain procurement trackers, action logs, request records, and reporting information to provide clear visibility of status, dependencies, and risks. Coordinate purchase requisitions, purchase order activity, goods receipting support, and invoice query resolution in line with programme and Leidos processes. Work with programme, commercial, finance, and supply chain colleagues to align procurement activity with delivery priorities, budget controls, and governance requirements. Support supplier onboarding, information requests, evidence gathering, and document control activities to ensure records are complete and auditable. Coordinate procurement meetings, prepare agendas, capture actions, maintain decision logs, and follow up with internal teams and suppliers to ensure timely closure. Track procurement dependencies across workstreams, escalating delays, missing information, or approval blockers to appropriate programme or functional leads. Support reporting on procurement status, upcoming commitments, aged actions, supplier responses, delivery milestones, and commercial management activities. Maintain controlled procurement documentation in approved repositories, ensuring version control, access requirements, and information handling expectations are followed. Contribute to continuous improvement of procurement management processes, templates, trackers, and ways of working across the programme.
Required Qualifications
- Must be eligible for UK Security Clearance
- DV clearance may be required depending on programme and customer requirements
- Experience in procurement management, supply chain coordination, commercial support, project management or PMO support within a complex delivery environment
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple requests, actions, approvals and deadlines across several stakeholders
- High attention to detail, with the ability to maintain accurate records, trackers, action logs and controlled documentation
- Good understanding of procurement management processes, including requisitions, purchase orders, supplier information, approvals, invoice queries and document control
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear updates, meeting notes, action logs and status reports
- Competent user of Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Teams
- Ability to work in secure, governed or controlled environments where process discipline, auditability and information handling are important
- Proactive, pragmatic and delivery-focused, with the ability to identify gaps, escalate blockers and support timely procurement outcomes
- Experience working on UK government, defence, secure, critical national infrastructure or regulated programmes
- Experience supporting procurement activity within a programme delivery, managed service, transition or mobilisation environment
- Familiarity with supplier onboarding, procurement governance, commercial approvals, finance controls or contract management
- Experience using enterprise systems or collaboration tools such as SharePoint, Teams, ServiceNow, Jira, SAP, Oracle, Workday or equivalent
- Awareness of public sector procurement principles, supplier management, commercial governance or supply chain compliance
- Working knowledge of information security, controlled documents, secure programme ways of working or security clearance environments
- Structured, organised and methodical, with strong attention to detail
- Collaborative and confident working across programme, commercial, finance, supply chain and supplier teams
- Proactive and resilient, able to chase actions, maintain momentum and escalate issues constructively
- Calm under pressure and comfortable operating in secure, governed and time-critical environments
- Committed to accuracy, transparency, process discipline and continuous improvement
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