Senior Procurement Manager

Royal Mail; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Healthcare

Annual bonus

Pension scheme

Leave entitlement

Dental / health benefits

Health assessment

Benefits platform

Job summary

Royal Mail is seek­ing a Senior Procurement Manager to join the Technology Procurement function. You will lead across Enterprise Technology and Services, shaping sourcing strategy, negotiating complex contracts, and delivering value beyond headline rate savings.

You will report to the Technology Procurement Director and manage one direct report, driving commercial innovation and alignment with Royal Mail's digital transformation goals in a major enterprise transformation.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years' experience in strategic sourcing or category management, preferably with expertise in technology and IT services.
• Proven leadership of large scale enterprise technology procurements, including systems integrators, licensing, and managed services.
• Strong financial acumen, with experience managing multi million pound technology portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Lead across Enterprise Technology and Services, managing one direct report.
• Shape and execute the sourcing strategy across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Negotiate complex technology contracts and deliver commercial outcomes balancing value, risk and resilience.
• Own governance and compliance for Technology procurement, ensuring alignment with policy, regulation, and risk standards.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Strategic procurement

Technology procurement

Leadership

Job description

Job reference 338681

Senior Procurement Manager

Competitive salary plus £5,500 car allowance, healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential, 27.5 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates

Permanent, Full time

Royal Mail Farringdon 3 Days in office Per Week

Join a team at the heart of a £7.8bn organisation, shaping the strategic sourcing and supplier relationships behind one of the UK's most recognisable brands. Working across a diverse national and global supplier base, you will lead smart, sustainable procurement decisions that deliver real commercial and operational impact.

Are you an outcome-driven procurement leader who raises the bar and earns trust through what you deliver? Someone who brings clarity to complex problems, builds strong stakeholder relationships, and raises expectations for what procurement can achieve? If that's you, we'd love to talk.

We are seeking a Senior Procurement Manager to join our Technology Procurement function. This strategic role is ideal for someone who enjoys challenging convention, driving commercial innovation, and building sourcing frameworks that support both steady-state operations and Royal Mail's technology modernisation and digital transformation ambitions.

About The Role

Reporting to the Technology Procurement Director, you will lead across Enterprise Technology and Services, managing one direct report. You will be at the centre of a major enterprise transformation, where you will shape and execute the sourcing strategy across multiple concurrent workstreams, negotiate complex technology contracts, and deliver commercial outcomes that balance value, risk, and long-term operational resilience.

You will also:

• Serve as the lead procurement partner for Enterprise Technology, owning senior stakeholder relationships across Technology, Business, and Programme leadership.
• Provide visible leadership within the Technology Procurement team, setting clear standards for commercial rigour, category excellence, and stakeholder engagement.
• Drive value through total cost of ownership analysis, competitive tension, and demand management, delivering benefits beyond headline rate savings.
• Actively manage the supply market, tracking technology trends, pricing benchmarks, and best practice to inform sourcing decisions, mitigate risk, and enable innovation.
• Own governance and compliance for Technology procurement, ensuring alignment with policy, regulation, and risk standards, and acting as a commercial escalation point.

About You

We are looking for a commercially astute procurement professional with:

• A strong track record of influencing senior stakeholders at Director and C suite level.
• Experience operating within large, complex organisations, with the ability to manage competing priorities and position procurement as a trusted partner.
• Eight or more years' experience in strategic sourcing or category management, preferably with expertise in technology and IT services.
• Proven leadership of large scale enterprise technology procurements, including systems integrators, licensing, and managed services.
• Strong financial acumen, with experience managing multi million pound technology portfolios.
• A robust understanding of procurement governance, regulatory compliance, and risk management.

Extra Benefits

• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Funded Dental - As a manager you are eligible to a level of employer funded dental insurance*
• Health Assessment - As a manager you are eligible to an employer funded health assessment every 2 years*
• Benefits Account - You will have access to your personal benefits account on our 'My Bundle+' platform. There are more than 800 retail offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills as well as employer provided and voluntary benefits to suit your lifestyle.
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It's free, and it's for everyone.
• Available only to permanent employees

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face or virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we'll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.

We understand that candidates may not meet all the criteria for the role. If your experience is different, but you have relevant skills we'd love to hear from you.

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.