Senior Procurement Manager, Corporate Services

We are looking for a commercially strong and stakeholder-focused Senior Procurement Manager Corporate Services to lead sourcing and supplier management across key corporate services categories including HR services professional services legal consulting recruitment and broader business support spend.

This Senior Manager role is critical in ensuring the organisation has access to high-quality external partners while maintaining cost discipline strong governance service performance and compliance. The role will support corporate functions by shaping demand improving supplier models and delivering commercially effective sourcing outcomes.

You will operate as a hands-on category leader combining strategic category planning with strong execution across sourcing negotiation contracting supplier performance and risk management.

What Youll Be Responsible For

Strategic Impact

• Develop and execute category strategies across assigned corporate services spend areas aligned to business priorities and functional requirements.

• Partner with HR Finance Legal and business leaders to understand demand shape requirements and identify opportunities to improve value and service delivery.

• Monitor market trends across consulting professional services workforce solutions recruitment legal services outsourcing and business support categories.

• Drive change management and support procurement transformation initiatives including process improvement supplier governance digitalisation and operating model improvements.

Sourcing & Category Delivery

• Lead sourcing activities across corporate services categories including consulting HR services recruitment legal outsourcing and business operations.

• Design and implement supplier panels preferred supplier arrangements rate cards service frameworks and commercial models that improve value and governance.

• Deliver commercial value through cost benchmarking demand management negotiation supplier consolidation and improved buying channels.

• Build robust sourcing recommendations supported by market insight stakeholder input commercial analysis risk assessment and service requirements.

• Ensure sourcing activity is executed with pace discipline and clear alignment to business priorities.

Stakeholder & Supplier Leadership

• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across HR Finance Legal and business functions.

• Act as a commercial advisor helping stakeholders navigate supplier options commercial trade-offs risk considerations and sourcing decisions.

• Manage supplier relationships across key corporate services categories ensuring performance value delivery compliance and continuous improvement.

• Lead resolution of complex commercial contractual supplier performance and service quality issues.

Commercial & Operational Excellence

• Drive efficiencies through supplier consolidation standardised frameworks improved demand planning and clearer governance over services spend.

• Embed data-led decision-making through spend analysis benchmarking rate card reviews contract compliance and value tracking.

• Strengthen financial controls contract management approval discipline and audit readiness across assigned categories.

• Support the adoption of procurement tools reporting templates and repeatable processes to improve efficiency and transparency.

Risk & Compliance

• Ensure responsible sourcing across labour-intensive advisory professional recruitment and outsourced services.

• Work with Legal HR Finance Risk and Compliance teams to manage contractual regulatory reputational operational and labour-related risks.

• Ensure supplier arrangements meet relevant policy ethical data protection confidentiality and compliance requirements.

• Maintain strong governance over supplier selection contract terms service delivery and performance management.

Team & Capability Building

• Provide guidance and support to procurement colleagues involved in corporate services sourcing or supplier management activity.

• Share category insight sourcing approaches negotiation strategies and best practice across the wider procurement team.

• Contribute to a culture of accountability transparency collaboration continuous improvement and ethical conduct.

• Significant experience in indirect procurement with strong exposure to corporate services professional services HR services recruitment legal outsourcing or managed services.

• Strong commercial acumen with proven experience in sourcing strategy negotiation supplier frameworks contract structuring cost optimisation and supplier management.

• Ability to influence senior stakeholders across corporate functions and balance commercial outcomes with service quality risk and compliance.

• Strong analytical capability including spend analysis benchmarking rate card assessment supplier performance review and business case development.

• Experience managing complex supplier ecosystems and service-based categories in a global or matrixed organisation.

• Confident operating at pace in a changing environment with the ability to manage ambiguity and competing stakeholder requirements.

• Strategic and operational excellence: translates strategy into action ensuring rigour consistency and execution throughout the source-to-contract cycle and supplier engagement.

Dyson monitors the market to ensure competitive salaries and bonuses. Beyond that youll enjoy a transport allowance and comprehensive medical care and insurance. But financial benefits are just the start of a Dyson career. Professional growth leadership development and new opportunities abound driven by regular reviews and dynamic workshops. And with a vibrant culture the latest devices and a relaxed dress code reflecting our engineering spirit its an exciting team environment geared to fuelling and realising ambition.
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