Procurement Business Partner

ITV Consumer Limited 2024; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company is seeking a dynamic Procurement Business Partner to join their team in Camden Town. In this permanent role, you will influence procurement strategies aligned with business goals, supporting innovation and digital transformation. The ideal candidate will have experience in professional services and technology procurement, along with strong analytical and collaboration skills. This position offers flexible working and various benefits including a generous holiday allowance and an annual bonus opportunity.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Generous holiday allowance

Annual bonus opportunity

Competitive pension contribution

Opportunity to buy ITV shares

Wellbeing and volunteering days

Qualifications

• Experience in professional services, marketing and/or technology procurement.
• Proven track record in strategic sourcing and delivering sophisticated procurement projects.
• Ability to align procurement activity with strategic business goals.

Responsibilities

• Build positive relationships with senior collaborators and external partners.
• Apply sophisticated spend analytics, predictive market intelligence.
• Lead strategic sourcing, tendering, and contract negotiations.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Analytical skills

Collaboration

Communication

Job description

Overview

We\'re on the lookout for a dynamic Procurement Business Partner to join our team on a permanent basis, reporting directly to the Procurement Director for Marketing & Corporate Services. In this strategic role, you\'ll be at the heart of crafting ITV\'s innovation and commercial decisions across Professional Services and Travel. Working closely with senior collaborators and executive leaders, you\'ll play a critical part in driving value, supporting digital transformation, and ensuring our procurement strategies align with both business goals and ITV\'s social purpose. This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who thrives with influence, collaboration, and delivering long-term, measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build positive relationships with senior collaborators and external partners to influence commercial decisions.
• Translate business challenges into procurement strategies that unlock long-term, balanced value.
• Apply sophisticated spend analytics, predictive market intelligence, and groundbreaking tools to produce actionable insights and predict future opportunities.
• Lead strategic sourcing, tendering, and contract negotiations for key projects.
• Support digital transformation by seeing opportunities through technology, data, and AI.
• Lead supplier performance and third-party risk, ensuring alignment with ITV\'s social and sustainability goals.
• Collaborate with Finance to forecast, track, and validate cost savings.
• Drive continuous improvement across procurement processes and capabilities.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year pipeline of high-impact procurement projects.
• Influence technical and commercial decisions to optimise cost, service, and innovation outcomes.

Qualifications / Experience

• Shown experience in professional services, marketing and/or technology procurement
• Proven track record in strategic sourcing and delivering sophisticated procurement projects.
• Background in collaborating with credible associates and diverse teams.
• Strong analytical skills that enable the extraction of insights from data.
• Ability to align procurement activity with strategic business goals.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, commercial environment.

Key Criteria

• Experience in travel procurement
• Strong collaborator management, with the ability to influence and challenge senior leaders while maintaining credibility and trust.
• Collaborative approach - works optimally as an internal consultant, partnering across teams to align procurement with business goals.
• Highly resilient and adaptable, comfortable handling ambiguity, shifting priorities, and navigating change.
• Commercially astute and customer-focused, with a continuous improvement outlook.
• Able to balance group-level priorities with local business needs, navigating tensions with diplomacy and integrity.
• Strategic problem solver who can connect the dots, generate insight from multiple data points, and present innovative solutions.
• Naturally curious and a quick learner, always looking for better ways to do things.
• A positive, proactive teammate who builds strong relationships and contributes to a collaborative culture.

Benefits

• Flexible working with a range of options
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life

More about ITV

What is the magic of ITV? It starts with a simple love of television. Watching it, creating it, talking about it. Whether it\'s daytime or primetime, for downtime or anytime. We\'re inspired by our audiences. Who helps shape what we make. Standing shoulder to shoulder with them. Because what matters to them, matters to us. Starting conversations. Winning hearts. Changing minds and sometimes even society itself. Big or small, what we make makes an impact.