Capex Procurement Manager

About VIRTUS

VIRTUS Data Centres is the UK’s fastest-growing data centre provider. We own, design, build, and operate some of the most energy-efficient, flexible, and secure data centres in Europe.

In 2023, we announced our expansion into continental Europe, starting with Berlin and Milan, with plans to grow further across the region.

At VIRTUS, we aim to be a positive force in the fourth industrial revolution—delivering innovative solutions while staying firmly rooted in our core values:
Clarity & Quality, Accountability, Customer Commitment, Purposeful Innovation, and Capability & Growth.

We are looking for a Cap Ex Procurement Manager to lead end-to-end procurement across our major capital projects and strategic Cap Ex categories — the design, construction and fit-out programmes that build VIRTUS' data centres in the UK and Europe.

You will own the commercial and procurement strategy for assigned capital programmes: packaging and route-to-market decisions, competitive tendering, complex contract negotiation, risk allocation, governance approval and contract mobilisation. You will partner closely with Design, Construction, Engineering, Project, Finance and Operations teams, and will direct external procurement consultants and commercial advisors be supporting the portfolio.

Alongside project delivery, you will build the longer-term commercial foundations: category and supply chain strategies, framework agreements and preferred supplier arrangements that give VIRTUS the capacity, resilience and competitive position to keep building at pace.

This is a senior, high-visibility role. Procurement decisions here carry material cost, programme and risk consequences, and you will be expected to hold your position with executive stakeholders and tier-one contractors alike.

• Own the commercial and procurement strategy for assigned capital investment programmes, ensuring procurement decisions support project delivery commitments, commercial outcomes and long-term growth ambitions.
• Develop and execute project procurement strategies covering market engagement, packaging, sourcing approach, procurement schedules, supply chain risk and route-to-market recommendations.
• Lead complex sourcing and contract award programmes end to end, ensuring robust commercial evaluation, effective negotiation, appropriate risk allocation and clean contract mobilisation.
• Provide procurement leadership across the project lifecycle, influencing business, technical and commercial decisions in partnership with Design, Construction, Engineering, Finance and Operations.

• Lead procurement governance and approval activity, including Procurement Steering Committee submissions, procurement reviews, tender recommendations, investment approvals and executive reporting.
• Produce high-quality, evidence-based approval papers and award recommendations that stand up to executive and audit scrutiny.
• Own procurement risk registers and change control for assigned programmes, escalating early where cost, programme or supply chain risk is emerging.
• Ensure compliance with VIRTUS procurement policy, Delegation of Authority and internal governance standards, maintaining clear audit trails throughout.

• Develop category, supplier and supply chain strategies across key Cap Ex spend areas, strengthening capability, resilience, capacity and competitive tension.
• Build and maintain senior relationships with contractor and supplier leadership, driving performance improvement, collaboration and long-term value.
• Establish and govern framework agreements, preferred supplier programmes and strategic sourcing partnerships that support standardisation, scalability and future capacity requirements.
• Drive measurable cost avoidance, value engineering and commercial improvement across the Cap Ex portfolio.

• Direct external procurement consultants, commercial advisors and specialist resources, with clear deliverables, standards, reporting cadence and escalation routes.
• Challenge consultant recommendations…