Strategic Procurement Manager

Help grow a safer cleaner healthier future for everyone every day.

About Halma

Halma is a global group of lifesaving technology companies driven by our purpose to grow a safer cleaner healthier future for everyone every day. Named as one of Britains Most Admired Companies our company provides innovative products and services that help solve many of the health environmental and safety problems facing the world today.

Our operating companies are autonomous by design. They own their P&Ls their customers and their decisions and that closeness to market is the engine of our growth not a problem to be tidied away. We are looking for an ambitious curious and humble procurement professional who is energised rather than frustrated by that reality.

Halma employs over 9000 people in more than 50 companies around the world with major operations in the UK Europe USA and Asia Pacific. Halma is an equalopportunity employer and achieving diversity is a priority for us.

To find out more about our purpose our people our DNA and our impact please visit: .

The Opportunity

Were looking for a high-impact Procurement Manager who can unlock the collective buying power of a multi-billion-pound 50-company group without ever taking control away from the companies that make it work.

This is deliberately not a centralisation role. You wont be mandating processes rolling out a single system or pulling spend into the centre. Your job is to make group-scale value so visible so easy and so commercially compelling that our companies choose to take it not because theyre told to. Youll work across a wide range of direct and indirect categories (materials electronics IT services and capital equipment) creating leverage that operating companies opt into as well as managing Group level Enterprise wide procurement for Technology.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives in a nonhierarchical collaborative and decentralized environment and is excited by the chance to drive and develop the procurement opportunities across the Halma Group.

How Youll Work Our Procurement Philosophy

This role lives or dies on a particular way of operating.

• Lead through influence evidence and trust never mandate. Adoption is earned not enforced.
• Aggregate demand by invitation not instruction opt-in frameworks lead-buyer arrangements and shared deals that companies join because the value is clear.
• Treat complexity as a feature not a fault. Many ERPs many processes and many ways of working are the price of autonomy; we create value inside that reality rather than trying to engineer it away.
• Enable rather than replace. We make local buyers and engineers stronger we dont take ownership off them.

Earn the right to the next conversation by delivering the last one.

If your instinct is to consolidate standardise and drive compliance this isnt the role for you. If your instinct is to build coalitions and let great value sell itself read on.

What Youll Be Doing

• Group Leverage by Consent: Spot where common spend exists across autonomous companies and build opt-in frameworks aggregated deals and lead-buyer arrangements that companies voluntarily adopt capturing scale benefits without central control.
• Category Strategy in Partnership: Co-create category strategies with operating companies sharing market insight strengthening supply resilience and respecting local context and constraints.
• Trusted Advisor & Enabler: Coach and equip local teams; share should-cost models market intelligence and supplier insight that make them better buyers building communities of practice not control points.
• Influence Without Authority: Win voluntary buy-in through credibility data and relationships across businesses that each have their own ways of working.
• Navigate Complexity: Create leverage across fragmented systems categories and geographies without forcing standardisation knowing when harmonisation genuinely adds value and when local difference should be protected.
• Innovation Automation & AI: and propose automation and AI tools (including Copilot) to make sourcing contracting and supplier management faster and more transparent and to make participating in group initiatives effortless.
• Contracting & Supplier Value: Lead group-level contract activity that delivers measurable value strong governance and improved supplier performance offered as a proposition companies want not a rule they must follow.
• Market Intelligence: Stay ahead of commodity movements supply risk and innovation opportunities sharing insight proactively to inform decisions and build the case for collaboration.

What Were Looking For:

Top 5 Hard Skills

• Federated leverage aggregating demand and leveraging volume across autonomous or independent businesses through opt-in frameworks lead-buyer consortium or category-council models without centralising control.
• Strategic sourcing & category management across direct and indirect spend (materials electronics IT services capital equipment).
• Contracting & supplier performance management (governance value delivery risk/compliance) designed as compelling propositions companies choose to adopt.
• Spend & market analysis / market intelligence used to persuade build the commercial case for collaboration and strengthen supply resilience.
• Digital procurement tools (eProcurement contract lifecycle management automation/AI such as Copilot) especially to make group participation easy transparent and low-friction.

Top 5 Soft Skills

• Influencing without authority building coalitions and voluntary adoption in a decentralised non-hierarchical group.
• Comfort with deliberate complexity and ambiguity thriving where there is no single process system or reporting line and creating value inside that.
• Stakeholder credibility across functions and seniority from buyers and engineers to MDs and Presidents.
• An enablement mindset making local teams better buyers rather than taking ownership from them; coaching sharing and building networks.
• Ownership curiosity and bias to action a hands-on do-er who will raise a PO and build a strategy and who keeps finding novel innovation-led ways to unlock value.

Your Background

• A background in procurement sourcing category management or commercial roles ideally gained in a multi-business federated M&A-heavy or otherwise decentralised environment.
• A persuader and coalition-builder not a controller; someone who creates pull not push.
• A self-starter who is comfortable with autonomy ambiguity and complexity.
• A do-er willing to cover the whole range of procurement activity from raising POs to building group strategy.
• Experience with eProcurement systems contract management tools or automation/AI platforms is beneficial but not essential.
• Confidence engaging stakeholders at all levels from buyers and engineers to senior leadership and MDs/Presidents.

Why Join Us

• Autonomy & Impact: Your ideas and initiatives can directly shape procurement maturity across the Group.
• Influence over Authority: Success here is built on trust and value not hierarchy a genuinely different and more rewarding way to work.
• InnovationDriven: Be part of a team that fully embraces technology AI and continuous improvement.
• Career Growth & Global Reach: Strong performance opens doors to senior and international roles across Europe the USA and Asia Pacific.

Career Progression & Global Exposure

We believe in growing talent from within. For the right person this role offers a clear path into senior Group procurement category leadership or OpCo-based roles plus international travel and collaboration with suppliers and operating companies worldwide.

Location

This a London based opportunity 3 days per week (Tues to Thurs) at the Halma Tech Hub near Liverpool Street Station. The role includes additional projectdependent travel to our Operating Companies across the UK Europe USA and Asia Pacific as well as travel to the UK Halma Head Office.

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