Commercial & Procurement Associate Director - sites nationwide

Key Responsibilities

• Lead major procurement programmes across public and private sectors.
• Develop innovative, compliant procurement strategies that drive value.
• Shape sourcing approaches, tender documentation, commercial models and evaluation frameworks.
• Provide expert guidance on NEC, JCT and other major contract forms.
• Ensure procurement activity is aligned with regulations including PCR 2015.
• Act as a senior point of contact for clients, building trusted relationships.
• Oversee delivery of commissions, ensuring excellence across outputs and deliverables.
• Support clients through complex commercial, contractual and procurement challenges.
• Provide clear intelligence, insight and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Lead and mentor a specialist team of consultants and procurement professionals.
• Create a high-performance culture with strong accountability and delivery standards.
• Support career development, training, coaching and performance management.
• Develop new service lines across transformation, sustainability and digital procurement.
• Create thought leadership, market intelligence and best‑practice framework.

• Experience delivering or leading complex, high-value procurements end-to-end.
• Strong background in regulated procurement, including PCR 2015.
• Leadership of procurement on major infrastructure, real estate, utilities, defence or public‑sector programmes.
• Expertise drafting tender strategies, commercial documents and evaluation models.
• Experience managing client relationships and delivering commissions at senior level.
• Proven ability to manage and develop teams.
• Knowledge of NEC and JCT contracts.
• Strong track record working with multidisciplinary stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, commercial and strategic thinking capability.
• Ideally experience in Defence, Utilities, Infrastructure (rail, highways) or Energy.
• Business development experience, including bid writing and work winning.
• Cross‑sector exposure spanning public and private environments.
• Experience creating supply chain intelligence, SRM frameworks or commercial modelling.