Skills

Communication Emotional Intelligence SAP Negotiation Risk Mitigation Marketing

Job Specifications

Procurement Manager - Facilities

Location: Basingstoke (2 -3 x days per week in the office)

Rate: £550 per day - Inside IR35

Duration: Until the end of June 2026

Reports to: Head of Procurement – Marketing & Corporate

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Procurement Manager with experience within Corporate functions, particularly Facilities to play a key role in driving value, improving supplier performance, and supporting a strategic approach to third‑party spend across the organisation.

You will lead sourcing strategies, deliver commercial value, mitigate supply risk, and partner closely with stakeholders across the business. You’ll help shape and implement procurement strategy while ensuring best-in-class governance, compliance, and supplier performance.

What You'll Be Doing

Strategic Procurement

Support the Head of Procurement in developing annual category plans and long-term roadmaps.
Partner with stakeholders and finance teams to build insight‑led sourcing strategies.
Lead category sourcing activity, supplier selection, negotiation, and contract execution.

Savings & Value Delivery

Own key procurement metrics, including cost savings and payment terms.
Identify and drive opportunities for cost reduction, revenue generation, and operational efficiency.
Deliver procurement projects that support risk mitigation and value creation.

Stakeholder & Supplier Management

Build strong strategic relationships with senior stakeholders.
Provide commercial challenge, market insight and help shape business decisions.
Manage supplier performance using MI, KPIs and SRM best practice.

Governance & Compliance

Leverage procurement systems (including SAP Ariba) for MI, reporting and contract management.
Conduct spend analysis to enable robust commercial decision‑making.
Champion procurement policies, ensuring compliance with regulatory and governance standards.

About You

Skills, Experience & Knowledge

Strong experience across full lifecycle procurement, sourcing and category management.
Background in Corporate / Indirect Procurement, especially Facilities or Event / venues
Proven ability to manage spend from £5m
Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills.
Experience delivering value through supplier relationship management and MI.
Excellent communication and stakeholder influencing skills.

Personal Attributes

Highly autonomous, proactive, and detail‑oriented.
Curious, commercially‑minded and driven to deliver value.
Strong emotional intelligence; able to influence at all levels.
Resilient, adaptable, and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

About the Company

Impellam is a connected group offering unparalleled workforce and STEM talent solutions expertise to provide organisations with mission-critical skillsets to future-proof businesses. Our blended approach fuses extensive workforce solutions expertise, with access to deep communities of STEM talent. As one of the largest workforce and STEM talent solutions companies in the world, we help clients to get the best possible ROI from £5bn of workforce spend and 2,900 supplier relationships, across nearly 80 countries. What’... Know more