Your new company
A fast-paced, multi-site commercial organisation is seeking an experienced Senior Interim Procurement professional to take ownership of short-medium term procurement objectives and embed procurement best practice across the business. Operating on a stand-alone basis within a £100m+ spend environment, this is a high-impact assignment with full executive backing and a clear mandate to deliver change. Initially tasked with actively managing critical areas of spend and improving supplier collaboration/performance, this role will then be instrumental in building a procurement function that adds long-term value that leaves a lasting legacy through the introduction of robust processes, supplier strategies, and governance.
Your new role
Reporting into the senior leadership team, you will take ownership of all procurement activities across the business, with an initial focus on a significant fuel spend portfolio and wider supplier management activities.Key responsibilities will include:
- Developing a robust approach across key areas of spend, including fuel and labour spend as critical, business priorities.
- Developing and implementing a procurement operating model, processes, and governance framework
- Reviewing and addressing unmanaged and off-contract expenditure across the organisation
- Consolidating a fragmented supplier base and delivering commercial efficiencies
- Leading strategic negotiations and supplier engagement activities
- Establishing contract management and supplier performance processes
- Creating procurement policies, controls, and reporting mechanisms
- Embedding a collaborative and commercially focused procurement culture
- Delivering a sustainable handover plan for a longer-term procurement resource
What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in this assignment, you will have:
- Proven procurement experience, driving success within complex, fast-moving commercial organisations
- Demonstrable experience of managing fuel spend
- Strong strategic sourcing and supplier negotiation expertise with
- A track record of delivering cost savings, supplier consolidation, and procurement governance improvements
- Experience managing significant indirect or operational spend portfolios
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence at executive level
- Strong commercial acumen and a pragmatic, hands-on approach
- The ability to deliver results quickly within a fast-moving environment
What you'll get in return
- Outside IR35 contract
- Initial 6-month assignment
- Significant autonomy and executive sponsorship
- Opportunity to create and implement a procurement function from the ground up
- Hybrid working with a minimum of three days per week on site
- The chance to deliver visible, business-critical transformation
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