Procurement Operations Manager

4Recruitment Services; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 94,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

4Recruitment Services is seeking a Procurement Operations Manager in Stevenage for a hybrid role. The position is a temp ongoing contract, with a 45-hour week and a day rate of £600 under umbrella terms.

The role focuses on delivering operational procurement across the Water division, enforcing policy compliance, driving cost avoidance, improving purchasing behaviour and governance over P-card spend and master data.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in procurement operations and operational procurement delivery.
• Ability to manage supplier performance and ensure compliance with procurement policies and frameworks.
• Experience developing, implementing and maintaining SOPs; driving cost avoidance and catalogue optimisation.

Responsibilities

• Manage Buying Desk performance and ensure lead time SLAs and KPIs are met.
• Act as escalation point for procurement-related queries; resolve non-standard queries.
• Develop, implement and maintain standard operating procedures for procurement activities.
• Monitor compliance with preferred supplier pathways across all purchasing activity.
• Deliver against targeted cost avoidance savings and improvements in catalogue utilisation.

Job description

We are currently looking for a Procurement Operations Manager. You will be working in Stevenage. Hybrid working

Monday - Friday

45 hours per week

Temp Contract - Ongoing

Day rate - £600 per day umbrella

Job Purpose

The primary purpose of this role is to lead the effective delivery of operational procurement activity across the Water division, ensuring robust process control, supplier performance, and compliance with procurement policies and preferred supplier frameworks. The role focuses on driving cost avoidance, improving purchasing behaviours, reducing invoices on hold, and delivering supply chain rationalisation, while maintaining strong governance over P-card spend and master data integrity. It is responsible for producing and leveraging data insights to improve operational performance, supporting bid and mobilisation activity, and embedding new suppliers into business processes.

Main Duties

• Manage the performance of the Buying Desk team as part of wider operational procurement delivery, ensuring adherence to lead time SLAs and quality management KPIs
• Act as an escalation point for procurement-related queries, including those arising from the Buying Desk
• Resolve non-standard procurement queries across operational activities, including those received via the Buying Desk
• Develop, implement, and maintain standard operating procedures for operational procurement activities
• Monitor and enforce compliance with preferred supplier pathways across all purchasing activity
• Deliver against an agreed cost avoidance savings target
• Drive improvements in catalogue utilisation and reduce non-catalogue purchasing activity across the business

Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. 4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer.