Senior Procurement Manager

Action for Children; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 29 days + bank holidays

Wellbeing day

Training and development opportunities

Flexible maternity/paternity packages

Pension with up to 7% employer contrib

Blue Light Card discounts

Job summary

Action for Children is seeking a Senior Procurement Manager on a permanent contract, working remotely from the UK. You will strategically manage a broad range of large spend categories and lead a small procurement team to deliver value across the organisation.

You will bring MCIPS qualification and proven ability to influence stakeholders, manage high-value contracts, and drive procurement transformation in a not-for-profit environment.

Qualifications

• MCIPS qualified.
• Experience in a not-for-profit or public sector environment preferred.
• Experience in procurement and management of high-value contracts.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and shape requirements.
• Build and maintain relationships with suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Develop, lead and manage a small procurement team.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to understand needs and provide guidance on procurement.
• Update and implement changes to the procurement strategy for Action for Children.
• Manage outsourcing partners within spend categories through tenders or negotiations.
• Negotiate commercial and contractual arrangements with suppliers.
• Drive compliance and governance across procurement processes.
• Oversee end-to-end procurement to pay process.
• Manage portfolio lifecycle for categories, prioritising spend and tendering.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Stakeholder management

Contract negotiation

Team management

Strategic procurement

Education

MCIPS qualification

Job description

Location: Remote (based from home, must be based in the UK).

Contract/Hours: Permanent, 35 hours per week.

• A generous annual leave entitlement of 29 days PLUS bank holidays.
• Up to 5 more days leave for continuous service plus the option to buy and sell leave.
• As part of our commitment to staff wellbeing, you’ll receive a paid annual Wellbeing Day to use however you choose, supporting a healthy balance between work and life.
• Gain professional qualifications with excellent training, and development opportunities.
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
• A pension with a up to a 7% employer contribution rate. Plus, if you pay in to the pension you will receive life assurance cover.
• Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

A bit about the role

As Senior Procurement Manager on a Permanent Contract, you will be strategically managing commercial procurement of a wide range of large scale spend categories across the organisation and supporting with changing the approach to procurement at all levels within the organisation, including maximising efficiencies and ensuring effective systems are in place. You will also manage a small team of Procurement professionals.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

• Develop, lead, and manage a small procurement team.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to ensure a clear understanding of needs and drivers to provide appropriate guidance and solutions on procurement.
• Update and implement changes to the procurement strategy for Action for Children
• Manage outsourcing partners within any spend category through competitive tender exercises or negotiation.
• Apply a robust supplier selection and management strategy and to negotiate appropriate commercial and contractual arrangements with suppliers.
• Drive compliance and managing the appropriate controls, governance, and process.
• Manage the complete procurement to pay process.
• Oversee the management and maintain responsibility for the professional or technical category portfolio, including prioritising spend activity, identifying cost savings, tendering, and managing complete supplier and product / service life cycles.

Let's talk about you

• MCIPS Qualified.
• Experience in a not for profit or public sector environment would be preferred.
• Experience of working in a procurement environment and management of high value contracts.
• Ability to influence change to behaviour and to use this influence stakeholders and shape requirements.
• Build and maintain relationships with suppliers and to establish relationships with new suppliers.
• Proven ability to guide and advise on all complex procurement matters.
• Develop and review of a procurement strategy.
• Managing staff and role modelling professional standards and behaviours.
• Demonstrable understanding of EDI policies and their application in the workplace.

Closing Date: Thursday 17th September 2026.

Interviews will be undertaken week commencing 28th September 2026.

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

We actively encourage applications from Black & Global Majority and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

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