Global Head of Corporate Service

Company Overview: Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6,000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

Role Summary: The Global Head of Corporate Services will provide strategic leadership across sourcing and procurement activities in India, UK, and USA. This senior role combines operational excellence, stakeholder partnership, and category management to deliver commercial impact, mitigate risk, and drive supplier innovation.

Core Duties & Responsibilities

• Leadership & Team Development: Provide strategic direction, coaching, and mentoring to India‑based sourcing professionals across multiple categories; create a high‑performance growth‑mindset culture focused on speed, quality, commercial impact, and stakeholder experience.
• Strategic Sourcing Delivery: Oversee end‑to‑end sourcing activity including market engagement, RFPs, category strategies, negotiations, and contracting; ensure sourcing events are executed consistently, compliantly, and aligned with procurement policy and governance; partner with Global Category leads to align sourcing activity with enterprise‑wide strategic priorities; embed best practices and digital tools to improve sourcing efficiency and transparency.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as a trusted business partner and advisor to senior leaders across business and finance functions.
• Category Management: Develop and implement category strategies that deliver performance, profitability, and alignment with business objectives; standardise requirements and specifications; conduct spend analysis to leverage synergies across the enterprise supply base; build, maintain and communicate a 12–24 month pipeline of renewals and initiatives to forecast savings and value delivery.
• Relationship Management: Manage key strategic suppliers under the Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) framework, monitor supplier performance and drive continuous improvement, innovation and risk mitigation.
• Collaboration Across Procurement: Partner with the TPRM team to integrate supplier due diligence, onboarding and performance management into sourcing; support implementation of the Global SRM Framework; collaborate with the Senior Technology Category Head to ensure resources are deployed at the right skill level and deliver against the right priorities, particularly for complex technology sourcing and contract negotiations.
• Governance & Process: Ensure procurement activities comply with internal policies and external regulations; maintain high standards of data quality, compliance and audit readiness; identify and eliminate bottlenecks, process gaps and inefficiencies across the sourcing lifecycle.
• Operational Excellence & Reporting: Implement best‑practice sourcing tools, templates and analytics; support adoption of AI‑enabled procurement tools (e.g., Elissa AI, eRFP, Agents); own team KPIs including savings, influence on spend, cycle times, stakeholder satisfaction and risk management.

Relevant Experience

• Proven experience in senior procurement leadership roles across multiple categories and geographies.
• Experience managing and developing a high‑performing team.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop high‑performing teams.
• Deep understanding of procurement processes and systems, with a record of successful operational implementation of strategic sourcing practices in complex organisations.
• Expertise in category management, strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management.
• Track record of delivering savings, mitigating risk and driving innovation.
• Strong knowledge of procurement governance, compliance and digital tools.
• Record of active participation in cross‑functional procurement transformation programmes.

Benefits (UK ONLY)

• Equiniti Pension Plan – Company matching up to 10% of contributions.
• Health and Wellbeing – Employee Assistance Programme (counselling, legal & wellbeing support).
• Life assurance cover at 4× salary with the option to purchase additional cover.
• Employee discounts – discounts and cashback at high‑street stores through the EQ Wins Platform.
• Flexible benefits – option to purchase a range of benefits through a flex plan (gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more).
• Time off – 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, 2 volunteer days.
• Recognition – Equiniti ICON award vouchers for outstanding contributions.
• Learning & Development – investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and encourage applications from individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre‑employment screening checks (including activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks).