Head of Procurement

JSS; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JSS is recruiting a Head of Procurement – Indirect / Generalist to lead a broad portfolio of indirect spend, including logistics, professional services and marketing. This senior, business-facing role shapes commercial strategy and influences major investment decisions across a global organisation.

You will partner with executive teams, develop category strategies, oversee major sourcing programmes and drive value through better governance, risk management and supplier performance.

Qualifications

• Senior procurement leader with broad indirect spend background.
• Hands-on leader comfortable running projects within a small team.
• Experience driving commercial value, savings and supplier performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement strategy across indirect spend (logistics, professional services, marketing, etc).
• Partner with Executive and senior leadership teams across the organisation.
• Develop and execute commercial and category strategies across multiple spend areas.
• Lead major sourcing programmes, complex negotiations and strategic supplier decisions.
• Challenge demand, investment cases and supplier arrangements to create greater value.
• Drive measurable savings, cost avoidance and wider commercial value.
• Strengthen supplier governance, SRM and commercial performance across strategic partners.
• Improve visibility and management of commercial, contractual and supplier risk.
• Establish procurement governance, frameworks, tools and reporting.
• Build procurement capability across the organisation and embed procurement as a trusted strategic partner.
• Support evolution of the procurement operating model across a global business.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Strategic thinking

Risk management

Supplier governance

Category strategy

Job description

Head of Procurement – Indirect / Generalist

We’re partnering with a prestigious, globally recognised organisation to appoint a Head of Procurement to lead a broad portfolio of indirect spend across the business.

This is a senior, highly business-facing procurement leadership role, with responsibility for shaping commercial strategy, influencing major investment decisions and driving measurable value across a diverse range of spend categories.

Rather than sitting as a traditional procurement function, the role will act as a strategic commercial partner to senior leadership, bringing market insight, commercial challenge and procurement expertise into key business decisions.

The Role

• Lead procurement strategy across a broad, enterprise-wide portfolio of indirect spend, such as: logistics, professional services, marketing etc.
• Partner closely with Executive and senior leadership teams across the organisation.
• Develop and execute commercial and category strategies across multiple spend areas.
• Lead and oversee major sourcing programmes, complex negotiations and strategic supplier decisions.
• Challenge demand, investment cases and existing supplier arrangements to identify opportunities for greater value.
• Drive measurable savings, cost avoidance and wider commercial value.
• Strengthen supplier governance, SRM and commercial performance across strategic partners.
• Improve visibility and management of commercial, contractual and supplier risk.
• Establish effective procurement governance, frameworks, tools and reporting.
• Build procurement capability across the organisation and embed procurement as a trusted strategic partner.
• Support the continued evolution of the procurement operating model across a complex global business.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for an established senior procurement leader with a genuinely broad/generalist indirect procurement background. This role will be hands on, and the successful candidate must be happy leading on projects, as part of a small team.

You’ll ideally bring:

• Significant procurement leadership experience within a large, complex organisation.
• Broad category exposure across indirect spend, rather than a narrow category specialism.
• A strong track record of delivering significant commercial value and savings.
• Experience leading complex sourcing programmes and high-value negotiations.
• Excellent senior stakeholder management, ideally operating at Executive/C-suite level.
• Strong supplier management, commercial governance and risk management experience.
• Experience developing or transforming procurement functions, operating models or ways of working.
• The ability to challenge senior stakeholders constructively while operating successfully in a highly relationship-led environment.
• Experience within a global or international organisation would be advantageous.

This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded procurement leader who enjoys operating across a broad spend portfolio, influencing at the highest levels of an organisation and helping shape how procurement operates across the wider business.