Procurement Manager

Ford & Stanley Select; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Final Salary Pension

Free Travel on owned lines

Rail travel discounts

Job summary

Ford & Stanley Group in London is seeking an experienced Procurement Manager for a central London hybrid role.

You will lead procurement activities across production, planning and sourcing, with governance aligned to rail sector reforms.

The role offers exposure to major projects, competitive salary up to GBP60,000, and a strong team culture with career development.

Qualifications

• Purchasing manager experience with tendering responsibilities.
• Public sector procurement experience; knowledge of CCS/GCA.
• CIPS qualification or equivalent.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead production support functions, meeting delivery targets, quality, safety and budget.
• Provide leadership for a workforce including managers and shop-floor staff.
• Own short- and medium-term production planning against programmes.
• Monitor KPIs, report outcomes and escalate risks to senior stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement via root-cause analysis and actions.
• Ensure safety, compliance and housekeeping across teams.
• Collaborate with Production, Projects, Planning, Engineering, Quality, Finance and HR.

Skills

Purchasing

Tendering

Public Sector

GCA/CCS knowledge

CIPS

Stakeholder engagement

Education

CIPS Qualified

Job description

Procurement Manager - Central London - Hybrid (3 days) - Up to GBP60,000

The Situation

We are looking for an experienced procurement professional to join a London based Train Operator during a exciting period in the rail industry. With the sector undergoing significant transformation through rail reform and nationalisation, this role will play a key part in supporting the organisation's commercial objectives while ensuring procurement activities remain compliant, efficient and value-driven.

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Procurement team at a once-in-a-generation moment for the rail industry, as nationalisation creates significant change, investment, and transformation across the sector. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering strategic procurement and commercial activities while benefiting from a highly regarded team culture, exposure to major business-critical projects, and excellent long-term career development prospects.

Key Responsibilities

Production Leadership: Lead and manage multiple production support functions, ensuring delivery targets, productivity, quality standards, safety requirements, and budget expectations are consistently achieved.

People Management: Provide leadership for a workforce of approximately employees, including managers, supervisors, engineers, team leaders, and shop-floor personnel. Build accountability, maintain performance standards, and effectively manage strong personalities across operational teams.

Operational Planning & Delivery: Own short and medium-term production planning, ensuring resources, manpower, and operational priorities remain aligned to customer programmes and business objectives.

Performance & Data Management: Maintain robust reporting structures, monitor operational KPIs, identify performance risks, and provide clear escalation and action plans to senior stakeholders when issues arise.

Continuous Improvement & Problem Solving: Drive a culture of root-cause analysis and operational improvement, identifying issues, implementing corrective actions, and preventing recurrence through structured problem-solving methodologies.

Safety, Compliance & Housekeeping: Ensure a safe working environment through strong leadership, visible management, adherence to procedures, incident investigation support, and effective enforcement of standards across production teams.

Stakeholder Engagement: Work collaboratively with Production, Projects, Planning, Engineering, Quality, Finance, HR, and senior operational leadership to ensure the successful delivery of business objectives

Salary & Benefits

• GBP55,000 - GBP60,000
• Final Salary Pension
• Free Travel on all owned lines
• 75% discount nationwide on rail travel
• 25 days + 8 bank holidays annual leave
• Health shield

Essential Experience

• Experience in a Purchasing Manager role - experience in purchasing & tendering
• Public Sector Procurement experience. Knowledge of GCA/CCS
• CIPS Qualified
• Strong stakeholder engagement

About Ford & Stanley Group

Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group are in the business of people and performance. Our mission is to create one million better workdays through facilitating great recruitment, leadership and occupational mental fitness. We support our clients in their most challenging business areas recruiting, developing and retaining the best talent from shop floor to boardroom.

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Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group Ltd is a Disability Confident employer that is committed to a policy of equal opportunities for all opportunity seekers. We shall adhere to such a policy at all times and will review on an on-going basis all aspects of recruitment to avoid unlawful or undesirable discrimination. We will treat everyone equally irrespective sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, age, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief or political beliefs and we place an obligation upon all staff to respect and act in accordance with the policy