Statement of Work Business Partner

Guidant Group; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading procurement firm in London is seeking a SoW Business Partner to manage the Statement of Work process. This role requires strong procurement skills and experience in customer-facing environments. You will oversee stakeholder relationships, validate SOW requests, and ensure compliance with service standards. Candidates should have a solid understanding of contract law and UK procurement regulations. The position is hybrid with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement, either as a practitioner or within an outsourced environment.
• Understanding of the key principles of contract law.
• Familiarity with UK public sector procurement regulations.
• Experience in a client-facing services delivery environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholder relationships and support their requirements.
• Validate new SOW requests and ensure a clearly defined specification.
• Run procurements and negotiate SOWs for approval.
• Maintain oversight of in-flight SOWs to ensure compliance.
• Manage SOW change notices in response to changes.
• Oversee supplier onboarding and rate card negotiations.
• Ensure services are delivered according to operating processes.
• Deliver services that meet or exceed customer KPIs.

Skills

Procurement experience

Understanding of contract law

Familiarity with UK procurement regulations

Client-facing experience

Job description

SoW Business Partner - Services Procurement

Location: London, hybrid with occasional travel to other UK locations

In this role, you will manage the end-to-end Statement of Work process. This includes building strong relationships with stakeholders to shape requirements early, validating and clarifying new SOW requests, and leading procurement activities through to negotiation and approval. You'll oversee SOW delivery to ensure milestones and service standards are met, manage change notices, and support supplier onboarding including MSA and rate card negotiations. A strong focus on operating model compliance and delivering against customer KPIs is essential.

Key Objectives of the Role

• Manage stakeholder relationships: own and develop relationships with key stakeholders / requestors, helping to support and shape their requirements from an early stage.
• Receive and validate new SOW requests: review and clarify requirements, ensuring a clearly defined specification.
• Run procurements and negotiate SOWs: identify most appropriate route to market, run procurement or mini comp, evaluate responses and negotiate draft SOW for approval.
• Maintain oversight of SOWs in delivery: monitor in-flight SOWs to ensure milestones are and services provided in accordance with the terms of the SOW.
• Manage SOW change notices: renegotiate SOWs as required in response to material change in circumstances e.g. change of project scope.
• Supplier Onboarding: manage ad hoc supplier MSA and rate card negotiations as required.
• Operating Model and Standards: ensure that all services are delivered in accordance with agreed operating processes.
• Customer KPIs: Deliver services that demonstrably meet or exceed customer KPIs.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

• Experience in procurement, either as a practitioner or within an outsourced environment.
• Understanding of the key principles of contract law.
• Familiarity with UK public sector procurement regulations
• Experience in a client-facing services delivery environment e.g. procurement outsourcing or MSP.

Why should you join #TeamGuidant

At Guidant Global, we're on a mission to change our industry for the better. We believe that our people are our biggest asset and strategic advantage. We are real people, recruiting real people. That's why we encourage our people to bring their authentic selves to work, so they can feel their best every day. At Guidant Global, we're people-centric to our core.

We welcome applications from individuals requiring varying levels of flexibility, our supportive and highly experienced team will provide you with the full details of the role.

You are guaranteed an interview if you can demonstrate that you can meet the role requirements above and have a disability /long-term health condition - just tell us when applying for the role. Our interview guarantee also applies to any current reservists, ex-armed forces personnel or forces spouses applying. We also recognise the value people with previous convictions can bring to society and are proud to be a "Ban the Box" employer.

We genuinely care about creating a diverse and inclusive team and we welcome people from all backgrounds, with different perspectives and experiences to work with us. We cannot, and will never discriminate against anyone based on, race, ethnicity, national origin, colour, sex, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, disability status, family or parental status, age, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity. At Guidant Global everyone has the freedom to give their opinion, build their career path and be part of a cooperative and supportive team. If you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process please do let us know. In your application please feel free to note which pronouns you use.