Procurement Manager

Location: Bolton
Working Pattern: Hybrid
Salary: Competitive, depending on experience
Type: Full-time, Permanent

We're working with a highly established and rapidly growing organisation operating across a large, multi-site environment, and they're looking to appoint an experienced Procurement Manager to play a key role in their continued growth.

This is an opportunity to join a business with a genuinely meaningful purpose, where the work you do has a direct impact on the services and environments they provide across their extensive network of sites.
This isn't simply a transactional procurement position. You'll have the opportunity to lead and develop the procurement function, work closely with senior stakeholders and take ownership of strategic procurement activity across a broad range of categories. Reporting directly to the Commercial Director, you'll have genuine visibility and influence across the organisation.

As Procurement Manager, you'll lead procurement activity across a diverse and evolving organisation, ensuring the business achieves the best possible combination of value, quality, compliance and commercial performance.
Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and coordinating procurement exercises across multiple categories
• Managing and developing the procurement team
• Developing strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers
• Leading procurement activity for new site openings
• Sourcing equipment, energy, vehicles and operational resources
• Managing supplier performance and ensuring agreed service levels are achieved
• Conducting supplier due diligence covering compliance, sustainability and quality
• Managing supplier databases and contract registers
• Leading tenders, price reviews and supplier onboarding
• Negotiating contracts and commercial terms to deliver value for money
• Working closely with Finance, Property, IT and operational teams to forecast requirements
• Taking responsibility for fleet procurement, including new vehicle orders, de-fleeting and vehicle reallocation
• Producing procurement reports and using data to identify commercial opportunities
• Managing supplier complaints and disputes
• Ensuring procurement activity complies with internal policies and relevant regulations
• Identifying and delivering opportunities for cost efficiencies and continuous improvement

We're looking for an experienced procurement professional who combines strong commercial judgement with excellent stakeholder management skills.
You'll ideally have:

• Proven experience in a procurement management role
• Experience operating across a complex, multi-site organisation
• Strong strategic sourcing and supplier management experience
• A proven track record of negotiating contracts and delivering cost efficiencies
• Experience managing tenders and procurement exercises from start to finish
• Strong understanding of procurement governance, compliance and supplier due diligence
• Excellent commercial and negotiation skills
• Strong analytical and reporting capability
• Experience managing, developing or mentoring a procurement team
• The ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience with procurement systems and relevant compliance frameworks

Experience with in education, healthcare, care, facilities management, property, infrastructure, retail, hospitality or another complex multi-site environment would be particularly relevant.

A recognised procurement qualification such as MCIPS would be advantageous but is not essential where the candidate can demonstrate the required level of commercial experience.

This is an excellent opportunity for a procurement professional who wants more than a standard category or purchasing position. You'll be joining a large, well-established organisation with ambitious growth plans, where procurement has a genuine influence on the wider business.

You'll have:

• A senior position with direct exposure to the Commercial Director
• Responsibility for a broad and varied procurement portfolio
• The opportunity to shape and develop the procurement function
• A genuine…