Global Procurement Lead – Professional Services & Consultancy

Bramwith Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Bramwith Consulting seeks a Global Procurement Lead for Professional Services & Consultancy in London, offering hybrid working and a top-tier package. The role focuses on leading global procurement across professional services, managing substantial spend, and negotiating complex deals with major consulting providers.

You will build senior stakeholder relationships, drive strategic category plans, and help evolve procurement to a best-in-class operating model.

Qualifications

• Strong Professional Services and Consultancy Procurement experience.
• Experience managing global categories and significant spend portfolios.
• Excellent negotiation and supplier relationship management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead global procurement strategy across Professional Services, Management Consultancy, Legal Services and wider Consulting spend.
• Develop category strategies and lead complex, high-value negotiations.
• Build strategic relationships with major global consultancies and professional services providers.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across international business units to drive value and supplier innovation.
• Help evolve the procurement function toward a best-in-class operating model.

Skills

Professional Services Procurement

Global Spend Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Job description

Global Procurement Lead – Professional Services & Consultancy

London | Hybrid Working | Up to £105,000 + Excellent Package

Already built an impressive procurement career with some of the world's biggest brands? Looking for another global market leader to add to your CV, with the opportunity to take your career even further?

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for a high-calibre Professional Services Procurement specialist to join a dominant global market leader during an exciting period of procurement transformation.

With a global spend portfolio running into the hundreds of millions, this role offers the opportunity to take ownership of major Professional Services and Consultancy categories, working alongside some of the strongest procurement professionals in the market.

The organisation is investing heavily in elevating its procurement function, increasing its strategic influence across the business and creating exciting opportunities for ambitious individuals to step into more senior positions as the function evolves.

The Opportunity

• Lead global procurement strategy across Professional Services, Management Consultancy, Legal Services and wider Consulting spend.
• Manage significant global spend, developing category strategies and leading complex, high-value negotiations.
• Build strategic relationships with major global consultancies and professional services providers.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across international business units to drive commercial value and supplier innovation.
• Play a key role in the continued evolution of a procurement function moving towards a genuinely best-in-class operating model.

What They're Looking For

• Strong Professional Services and Consultancy Procurement experience, ideally within large multinational organisations.
• Proven experience managing global categories, significant spend portfolios and complex strategic sourcing programmes.
• A background working for major blue-chip organisations with sophisticated procurement functions.
• Excellent commercial negotiation, supplier relationship management and senior stakeholder engagement skills.
• An ambitious, commercially astute individual with the credibility and drive to progress into more senior procurement leadership positions.

Alongside the scale and complexity of the role, the organisation offers an exceptional working culture, exposure to highly accomplished procurement leaders and genuine opportunities for career development.

For someone who has already established themselves within global procurement and wants to add another prestigious name to their CV, take ownership of a major international portfolio and position themselves for the next step into procurement leadership, this is an opportunity well worth exploring.