Procurement Lead

Procurement Lead (12-Month FTC)

Your Role: Procurement Lead

The Procurement Lead is a newly created role responsible for establishing and leading Global’s procurement capability across the business. Acting as a trusted commercial partner to senior stakeholders, including the CFO, the role will shape how Global sources, governs and extracts value from third-party spend.

The role requires a commercially strong, analytically driven leader who can influence stakeholder behaviour, introduce disciplined ways of working and embed a more cost-conscious, value-led approach to procurement across the organisation.

As a Procurement Lead at Global, you will:

Key Responsibilities

• Lead strategic sourcing and supplier negotiations across key spend categories, ensuring requirements are challenged, value-led and aligned to business priorities.
• Own commercial decision-making for third-party spend, including sourcing strategy, contract award recommendations and senior approval submissions.
• Contract with suppliers in partnership with Legal, ensuring robust commercial terms, risk management and central contract visibility.
• Deliver initiatives that contribute to the CFO’s cost-savings programme, with clear savings tracking and financial governance.
• Oversee key supplier relationships and performance where escalation or intervention is required.
• Provide insight into external market dynamics and supplier risk to inform commercial and strategic decisions.
• Support budgeting and forecasting through clear visibility of contract commitments, renewals and expected spend.

What You’ll Love About This Role

• Think Big: You’ll have the mandate to build and shape a scalable Procurement capability, influencing how Global sources, governs and creates value from third-party spend.
• Own It: You’ll operate with clear accountability for commercial outcomes, directly supporting the CFO’s cost and value agenda.
• Keep it Simple: You’ll have licence to cut through complexity and design pragmatic procurement governance that supports, rather than slows, the business.
• Better Together: You’ll work closely with senior leaders across Finance, Technology and Operations, positioning Procurement as a trusted partner, not a gatekeeper.

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you’ll have:

• Established effective working relationships with senior stakeholders, with Procurement routinely engaged in material sourcing and contract decisions.
• Delivered clear visibility of third-party spend and contract risk, including priority renewals and value opportunities.
• Generated early, measurable savings or value improvements aligned to the CFO’s cost programme, with tracking and reporting in place.
• Embedded fit-for-purpose procurement governance that is understood, adopted and used by the business.

What You’ll Need

• 2–6 years’ experience in procurement, gained in industry procurement category management and/or procurement consultancy roles

• Strong commercial and analytical judgement, with the ability to balance cost, risk and value using data and insight
• Confidence influencing senior stakeholders and leading commercial negotiations.
• A collaborative, outcome-focused mindset, comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.