Interim Procurement Manager - Operational Cost Savings

Portfolio Credit Control; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Portfolio Procurement is seeking an Interim Procurement Manager for an initial 3-month contract in Hertfordshire. You will lead operational procurement across the Water division, ensuring policy compliance, supplier performance and governance of P-card spend.

Responsibilities include managing the Buying Desk, delivering cost avoidance, improving catalogue uptake, and embedding new suppliers into business processes while producing data-driven performance insights for mobilisation and bid support.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an operational procurement role with strong understanding of processes, policies and controls.
• Experience delivering cost avoidance and value through day-to-day procurement activity.
• Experience enforcing compliance with supplier frameworks and purchasing policies.
• Strong supplier management experience and performance monitoring.
• Experience improving purchasing behaviours (catalogue adoption, reducing non-compliant spend).
• Ability to develop and maintain SOPs and processes.
• Experience managing transactional procurement activity.
• Advanced MS Excel data analysis and reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage Buying Desk performance against SLAs and KPIs.
• Escalation point for procurement queries from the Buying Desk.
• Resolve non-standard procurement queries across operational activities.
• Develop, implement, and maintain SOPs for operational procurement.
• Monitor compliance with preferred supplier pathways across purchasing activity.
• Deliver against cost avoidance savings targets.
• Drive improvements in catalogue utilisation and reduce non-catalogue spend.
• Lead supply chain rationalisation across suppliers.
• Produce and analyse procurement data to support performance management.
• Support reduction of invoices on hold and drive issue resolution.
• Collaborate with preferred suppliers to support operational performance.
• Support onboarding of approved suppliers and master data accuracy.
• Oversee and control P-card spend in line with policy.
• Provide bid support to work-winning and estimating teams.

Skills

Procurement experience

Cost avoidance

Supplier management

Policy compliance

P-card governance

Data analysis

Excel skills

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

Portfolio Procurement is seeking an Interim Procurement Manager for an initial 3-month contract in Hertfordshire. You will lead operational procurement across the Water division, ensuring policy compliance, supplier performance and governance of P-card spend.

Responsibilities include managing the Buying Desk, delivering cost avoidance, improving catalogue uptake, and embedding new suppliers into business processes while producing data-driven performance insights for mobilisation and bid support.