Head of Procurement in London

The role

Overview

Indurent is seeking a commercially minded and progressive Head of Procurement to lead and embed the next stage of its procurement operating model.

The role will lead a hub-and-spoke procurement model, combining a lean central procurement capability with strong ownership across business functions.

Procurement will focus its expertise where it creates the greatest value: strategic sourcing, major commercial decisions, supplier performance, risk management and complex negotiations.

More transactional and lower-risk procurement activity will increasingly be managed directly by business users through guided self-service, supported by clear policies, processes, technology, preferred suppliers and appropriate controls.

This is not a traditional centralised procurement role.

The Head of Procurement will own Indurent's procurement strategy, operating model and commercial approach to third-party spend, partnering with senior stakeholders to identify opportunities, challenge demand, optimise cost, manage commercial risk and secure maximum value from supplier relationships.

The role will build a procurement capability that enables the organisation to move faster, spend effectively and make better commercial decisions while maintaining appropriate governance and control.

Responsibilities

• Procurement strategy and leadership
• Own and deliver Indurent's procurement strategy, ensuring alignment with the organisation's commercial and strategic priorities.
• Partner with FP&A to improve visibility, forecasting and planning of third-party spend
• Own the governance, validation and tracking of procurement savings and benefits realisation
• Lead and continuously develop the hub-and-spoke procurement operating model, maintaining a lean central team and leveraging AI, automation and digital tools to improve efficiency, accuracy and scalability.
• Provide dotted-line leadership, coordination and support to the procurement navigators across business functions, ensuring the spokes are effectively managed and the hub-and-spoke model is embedded consistently.
• Establish Procurement as a strategic commercial partner to the business rather than primarily a transactional purchasing function.
• Develop annual and multi-year procurement plans based on spend, business priorities, supplier risk and commercial opportunity.
• Provide senior leadership with clear visibility of procurement performance, opportunities, risks and priorities.
• Champion a culture of commercial ownership and cost consciousness across the organisation.
• Strategic sourcing and commercial value
• Lead strategically important, high-value, high-risk and complex procurement activity.
• Identify and deliver sustainable savings, cost avoidance and broader commercial value from third-party spend, across categories ranging from building works to professional services.
• Partner with stakeholders to challenge demand, specifications, consumption and existing commercial arrangements.
• Lead major supplier negotiations and support the business in developing effective commercial strategies.
• Develop category and sourcing strategies for priority areas of spend.
• Ensure procurement decisions consider total cost, commercial risk, service quality, operational requirements and long-term value rather than price alone.
• Maintain a clear pipeline of procurement and value-creation opportunities.

Business partnering

• Build strong relationships with functional and departmental leaders, acting as a trusted commercial adviser.
• Maintain clear roles and responsibilities between Procurement and business functions.
• Enable departments to take greater ownership of appropriate procurement activity while providing specialist Procurement support where it adds value.
• Develop commercial capability across the organisation so stakeholders can confidently manage lower-risk procurement activity.
• Provide appropriate challenge to business requirements while maintaining a pragmatic and service-oriented approach.
• Self-service procurement
• Lead the transition of appropriate transactional and lower-value procurement activities to guided self-service.
• Ensure self-service processes maintain appropriate financial, legal, risk and procurement controls without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Use technology and automation to reduce manual procurement activity and improve the user experience.
• Monitor self-service adoption and continuously simplify processes based on business feedback and data.
• Procurement technology and process
• Own the procurement requirements and business adoption of Indurent's procurement technology and source-to-pay ecosystem.
• Drive automation, workflow and data improvements across sourcing, purchasing, approvals, contracting and supplier management.
• Improve visibility of third-party spend and use data to identify opportunities and support decision-making.
• Supplier and contract management
• Develop a structured approach to supplier relationship and performance management, with the greatest focus applied to strategically important suppliers.
• Support strategic supplier reviews and executive-level supplier relationships.
• Work with business owners to improve accountability for ongoing contract and supplier management.
• Identify opportunities for supplier consolidation, commercial leverage, innovation and improved service.
• Governance, risk and compliance
• Own and continuously improve Indurent's procurement policy and governance framework.
• Ensure appropriate due diligence and risk assessment is undertaken for third parties.
• Partner effectively with Finance, Legal, Technology and Sustainability.
• Maintain appropriate visibility and control of procurement activity without unnecessarily slowing the business.
• Performance and value management
• Maintain the existing procurement performance framework covering tangible financial savings, the procurement pipeline and delivered value, supplier performance, contract coverage and renewal visibility, self-service adoption, compliance with preferred buying channels, and clear adoption KPIs to track and reinforce the embedding of the hub-and-spoke operating model.
• Measures of success
• Delivery of measurable and sustainable procurement savings and commercial value.
• Increased Procurement influence over strategically important third-party spend.
• Successful adoption of the hub-and-spoke operating model, including increased self-service usage.
• Improved visibility and management of third-party spend.
• Stronger management of strategic suppliers and contracts.
• Improved procurement technology adoption and process efficiency.
• Effective commercial governance and clear reporting to senior leadership.

Skills and Experience

• We are looking for a dynamic procurement leader who combines strong commercial capability with the ability to run a modern, pragmatic procurement function.

The successful candidate is likely to demonstrate

• Significant procurement and commercial leadership experience within a complex organisation.
• Experience within a consulting and/or private equity environment.
• Experience leading or developing a decentralised, federated or hub-and-spoke procurement model.
• Strong strategic sourcing and negotiation capability across a broad range of indirect and corporate spend categories.
• Demonstrable experience delivering measurable cost reduction and commercial value.
• Experience implementing or improving procurement technology, source-to-pay processes and digital buying channels.
• An understanding of how AI, automation and self-service can simplify procurement, improve efficiency and accuracy, and enhance decision-making while maintaining appropriate control.
• Strong supplier management and commercial governance experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including credibility with senior executives and functional leaders.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen.

About us

At Indurent, our mission is to serve our customers by providing space for success where they can work, flourish and grow.

We do this by leveraging our customer-first approach, our fantastic team and strong operating platform across the whole of the industrial and logistics spectrum in the UK, from multi-let industrial estates in urban areas up to large logistics assets in strategic transport hubs.

We also develop best-in-class industrial and logistics properties which incorporate the latest sustainability technology, provide highly efficient and low-carbon warehousing solutions for our customers.

At Indurent, we strive to excel at everything we do, but we believe our greatest strengths are:

• Our Customer First Approach
• We listen to our customers so that we genuinely understand and meet their needs.

We strive to be there when they need us, and to make our interactions as frictionless as possible, resulting in a differentiated customer experience which add tangible value.

• Our ‘Indurent Hive’ Technology Platform
• We have invested in a technology-driven, market-leading operating platform called Indurent Hive to support the digitalisation of our business and drive our customer experience.

The platform covers all elements of our business, from marketing through to leasing, and from property management through to finance.

We use it to deliver value and growth opportunities for all our stakeholders.

• Our empowered People
• We have the right people in the right roles.

They have clarity of purpose and enjoy working in a dynamic environment which is both challenging and rewarding.

We believe in the importance of investing in our people through ongoing training and professional development.

We are

Accountable

we act with integrity, take responsibility for our actions and we are committed in everything we do.

Dynamic

we are relentless, and we are agile.

Curious

we are always learning, open to change and we are innovative.

Collaborative

: we win and lose as a team, listen to understand and we provide a high challenge, high support working environment.

Fair

we treat others as we wish to be treated, we are honest, respectful and we do the right thing.

• We Pay it Forward
• We have market leading, high-quality buildings where our customers and local communities can flourish.

We prioritise health, wellbeing, sustainability and our net carbon reduction and we are a force for good through our charitable work, commitment to diversity and inclusion and to working with a responsible supply chain.

We believe in making a better world for future generations and take responsibility for our actions.

• Our Committed Capital
• We are longstanding investors in the UK industrial and logistics market with a UK wide platform and excellent track record of performance.

We are fully aligned with Blackstone, our capital partner, and together we have a strong conviction towards investing in UK industrial and logistics.

Following the integration of Industrials REIT and St Modwen Logistics in June 2024, Indurent is one of the UK’s largest owners of industrial and logistics property, with over 25m sq ft of warehouse space and more than 2,000 customers.

We have big ambitions and aspirations, and with the backing of our owner, Blackstone, we expect to double the size of the business over the next 3-5 years.

We are always looking for talented individuals to join the Indurent team who can help us achieve our goals and aspirations. We would love to hear from you if that might be you.