Senior Procurement Manager

Are you passionate about strategic procurement and delivering value? Ready for a new challenge in a high-impact public sector role? Join Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) as our Senior Procurement Manager and lead revenue-based procurement across a diverse portfolio, including technology, ticketing, highways, clean energy, facilities management, and corporate services. You’ll lead and manage a team of three to drive commercial value and ensure procurement excellence across a diverse spend portfolio, from ensuring legal compliance and best practice on low value requirements, to actively shaping and managing complex, high-value procurement activity. If you’re commercially sharp, collaborative, and ready to lead in a dynamic public sector environment, this role is for you. This is hybrid role where you will be expected to work in the office 2 days per week as a minimum. Who are we? You’ll be joining a dedicated team of 14 procurement professionals at the heart of TfGM, part of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) family. We shape and deliver procurement across a wide range of categories to keep Greater Manchester moving, from maintaining the transport network to delivering innovative projects that improve services for customers. As part of the wider Commercial Services team, we work across the organisation on projects that directly impact the region, improving services for customers and communities. It’s a rewarding role offering real development opportunities and the opportunity to lead and develop a team of procurement professionals. What you’ll bring What you do and how you do it is important – whatever type of role you work in at TfGM – and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt. The ideal candidate will bring significant experience in procurement, ideally including within the public procurement regulatory environment. You’ll have a strong track record of managing both low and high-value contracts across a range of categories, ideally including either technology, facilities, or green energy and associated infrastructure. You’ll have led complex sourcing projects and delivered measurable savings. Experience managing a procurement team and engaging senior stakeholders is essential, and you’ll need to be comfortable making risk-based decisions and ambiguity. Strong commercial acumen, negotiation skills, and strategic thinking are key. What we can offer you This is a full-time opportunity to join a supportive and collaborative team at TfGM, where your leadership will make a real impact. You’ll have autonomy to lead and develop a capable revenue-based procurement team, which forms part of the wider procurement department, and you’ll play a key role in shaping and modernising our ways of working. Working on complex, high-profile projects, you’ll have the opportunity to influence the future of transport in Greater Manchester, while enjoying the backing of an organisation committed to continuous improvement and professional growth. This is a permanent role with a salary of £70,906 to £79,805 per annum depending on skills and experience. At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process. Our benefits include: * 28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays) * Free bus travel within Greater Manchester and free Rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary * Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions * Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role * We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required * Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time