Head of Procurement – Strategy & Enablement

Location: London

Contract Type: FTC (Initially 12 months)

Work Pattern: Full Time and Hybrid (2/3 days a week in the office)

MS Amlin is part of MS&AD, a global top‑10 insurance group, comprising four distinct businesses:
Global Reinsurance, Lloyds Franchise, Local Specialty Insurer, and Business Services. MS Amlin Business Services (MS ABS) supports the organisation through Sourcing and Supplier Management, Legal, HR, Facilities Management, IT, Risk Management, Compliance, and Finance. Our vision is to be a trusted partner and solution provider of choice.

We are appointing a Head of Procurement Strategy & Enablement to shape how Procurement delivers value across MS ABS and the wider Amlin Legal Entities. Reporting directly to the Chief Procurement Officer, this role will have a broad strategic mandate aligned to the Procurement Target Operating Model, while remaining a highly hands‑on, delivery‑focused leadership role.

The role leads the Procurement Strategy & Enablement team, comprising two Category Managers and one Category Buyer, and is accountable for setting direction, enabling delivery, and ensuring sourcing activity is driven by strategy, insight, and outcomes rather than transactional demand. As a “player‑coach”, the role holder will remain directly involved in priority sourcing initiatives, complex category strategies, supplier negotiations, and problem‑solving, particularly where scale, complexity, or senior stakeholder engagement is required.

You will partner closely with the Chief Procurement Officer and senior stakeholders across ABS and Legal Entities to define supplier strategy, enable adoption of new ways of working (including procurement technology), and provide the analytics, frameworks, and governance that underpin consistent, value‑led procurement delivery. This is not a purely conceptual or oversight role; it requires active ownership, practical execution, and visible leadership in embedding new capabilities and ways of working across the organisation.

• Provide clear leadership, direction, and coaching to 2x Category Managers and 1x Category Buyer, setting priorities and expectations aligned to Procurement strategy and the TOM.
• Ensure category resources are deployed effectively across ABS and Legal Entities, balancing strategic focus with delivery requirements.
• Build capability across the team in category strategy, commercial analysis, stakeholder engagement, and outcome ownership.

• Define and maintain the Procurement strategy and multi‑year roadmap aligned to business priorities and Legal Entity need.
• Translate enterprise objectives into clear category‑level outcomes, priorities, and plans.

• Lead the development and quality assurance of category strategies produced by Category Managers, ensuring they are insight‑led, outcome‑focused, and commercially robust.
• Maintain and apply vendor strategy postures (Invest / Optimise / Stabilise / Divest / Sunset) to guide sourcing, renewals, and supplier engagement.
• Address scale, leverage, and value considerations as Legal Entity sourcing models evolve.

• Own procurement MI, analytics and insight, ensuring Category Managers have the data required to drive informed decisions.
• Establish consistent value tracking (savings, TCO, risk reduction) in partnership with Finance.
• Capability, Methods & Tooling
• Define procurement standards, playbooks, templates, and training for use across the category team and wider function.
• Support adoption of procurement technology (e.g. Ivalua) from a category strategy, process and capability perspective.

• Support the CPO in strategic discussions on sourcing models, supplier strategy, and operating model evolution.
• Act as a senior procurement advisor to ABS and Legal Entity stakeholders, providing clarity on category direction, priorities, and trade‑offs.

• Thrive in a dynamic environment where you can lead transformational initiatives and drive significant change within the Procurement…