Senior Procurement Manager, Global Logistics Fulfilment
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Develop and implement a global category strategy for Global Supply Chain and Commercial, aligning with business priorities. Partner with Supply Chain and Commercial stakeholders to understand evolving landscape requirements, while leading supplier selection, tendering, and contract negotiations. Drive cost optimisation through market insight and benchmarking, building collaborative relationships focused on performance, innovation, and risk management. Work cross-functionally with Quality, Legal, Finance, and Compliance teams to ensure regulatory and financial standards are met, defining SLAs and KPIs to address performance issues. Embed procurement compliance, third-party risk management, and ethical sourcing principles across all activities, leveraging data analytics and digital tools to enhance demand visibility and support evidence-based sourcing decisions.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Procurement, Supply Chain, Business, Life Sciences or a related discipline
- Proven experience in procurement, category management, ideally within logistics, transportation or Commercial-supporting environments
- Strong experience in strategic sourcing, tendering and contract management
- Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate effectively within a global, matrix organisation
- Knowledge of procurement compliance, third-party risk management and ethical sourcing
- Track record of delivering cost optimisation, service improvement and risk reduction at scale
- Experience using data analytics, digital procurement platforms, AI-enabled insights to support sourcing decisions, supplier performance management and category strategy development
Desired Qualifications
- Commercially astute with strong analytical skills
- Confident communicator and negotiator
- Collaborative, pragmatic and delivery-focused
- Comfortable working in complex and ambiguous environments
- Proactive, innovative and willing to challenge the status quo
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