I am working with an FTSE 100 organisation. Their procurement function is entering a growth phase, and it is a great time to join them.

I am seeking a highly qualified and experienced professional to join the team as a Project Procurement Manager for an initial 6-month contract. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of managing procurement activities for large-scale EPC projects in the energy, oil and gas, or infrastructure sectors.

As the Project Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the procurement process from start to finish. This includes identifying potential suppliers, evaluating bids and proposals, negotiating contracts, and ensuring that all procurement activities are conducted in compliance with company policies and procedures.

To be considered for this role, you should possess the following qualifications:

• Extensive experience in procurement management for EPC projects
• Proven track record of successfully managing large-scale procurement projects
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to build strong relationships with suppliers and contractors
• Excellent communication and leadership skills!

For more information about this exciting role and if you meet the criteria, please submit your details without delay to info@langleysearch.com quoting MB/8102.

Langley Search & Selection (langleysearch.com) is the leading specialist recruiter in the procurement, supply chain and purchasing field.  We manage permanent and interim procurement and supply chain jobs across the UK, Europe and globally for our clients, from large global multinationals to SMEs

Salary to c£52k + excellent benefits (12 month fixed term contract)

Essex – 1-2 days per week in office

My client are currently looking to recruit into a Strategic Contract Manager post which will be responsible for key strategically important high risk / visibility / complexity ICT related contracts. The successful candidate will also be involved with the onboarding of a new contract / service provision for one of the contracts as well as the re-procurement of another key contract.

The successful candidate will ideally have the following experience:-

• A background in contract management for a service provision. This can be either from a client or supplier perspective.
• A strategic and commercial outlook with the ability to challenge the ethos and continually seek service improvements. This experience could be gained from either a procurement, commissioning or contract management or supplier angle.
• The ability to build strong stakeholder and supplier relationships

For further information please email nathan.ramsay@langleysearch.com or call +44(0)333 366 0839 quoting 8100NR.

Langley are a diverse, minority-owned business and we are passionate about promoting diversity and equality. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, disability status or gender and particularly welcome applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

Oxfordshire – 2 days per week in office

My client are currently looking to recruit into a newly created Contract Manager post which will be responsible for a number of key high risk / value / complexity contracts. The successful candidate will develop strategic contract management policies and procedures which will drive efficiencies, value for money and savings.

The successful candidate will ideally have the following experience:-

• A background in contract management, gained within the social care arena (adults / childrens / public heath). This can be either from a client or supplier perspective.
• A strategic and commercial outlook with the ability to challenge the ethos and continually seek service improvements. This experience could be gained from either a procurement, commissioning or contract management or supplier angle.
• The ability to build strong stakeholder and supplier relationships

For further information please email nathan.ramsay@langleysearch.com or call +44(0)333 366 0839 quoting 8095NR.

Langley are a diverse, minority-owned business and we are passionate about promoting diversity and equality. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, disability status or gender and particularly welcome applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

Reporting to the Capex Director, this is an excellent opportunity to develop, shape, implement and monitor projects for a portfolio of Capital Projects. The Senior Contracts Manager will be responsible for negotiating contracts and lead on procurement activities.

The senior Contract manager will have the ability to develop relationships. They will have experience in driving change and implementing new commercial strategies. They will have recent experience working with 3^rd party EPCM contractors ensuring contractual agreements are suitable whilst putting performance measures in place to track delivery.

The key elements of the role:

• Optimisation and implementation of the project contracting strategy ensuring all capital projects are defined
•  Leading, and  supporting contract negotiations
• Supplier management, focusing on performance management of EPC consultants and executing procurement to contract close out.
• Coaching / Training of internal staff & external suppliers in SRM and Contract Management best practice
• Deliver regular reporting on Procurement performance to the leadership and project teams

Ideal Experience Required:

• Extensive experience in procurement, especially capital project procurement, supply chain or similar experience is required
• Experience with EPCM contract strategy framing and management
• Ability to successfully manage and demonstrate strong leadership skills
• Knowledge and high-level understanding of category, capital, and services projects
• Excellent interpersonal/influencing skills, particularly in stakeholder engagement
• Project Management skills

For more information about this exciting role and if you meet the criteria, please submit your details without delay to info@langleysearch.com quoting MB/8089.

Langley Search & Selection (langleysearch.com) is the leading specialist recruiter in the procurement, supply chain and purchasing field.  We manage permanent and interim procurement and supply chain jobs across the UK, Europe and globally for our clients, from large global multinationals to SMEs

My client is a Fortune 500 Global Retail organisation based in Hertfordshire.  I am assisting them with an Indirect Category Manager. They are looking for someone to develop and assist with the Indirect categories.

Reporting to the Category Manager the role involves:

• Building relationships with key divisions and individuals to ascertain and understand stakeholder, business and customer requirements, strategy, challenges and opportunities. 
• Developing and delivering a procurement plan that aligns with the wider sourcing plan and delivers savings/ROI and other value-added benefits
• Developing policies and procedures that add value to their business culture

You should have the following knowledge & experience:

• Knowledge of relevant supply markets will be advantageous.  Personally, managed a wide range of areas of spend (e.g., Utilities, Energy, Logistics & Ticketing)
• Excellent business knowledge and awareness
• Evidence of working in a non-mandated environment and penetrating difficult areas of spend where there may have been significant initial stakeholder resistance
• Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent and MCIPS
• Experience in developing best practice governance, procedures and policies which protect the business from risk

Ideally, you should have the following skills:

• Excellent leadership skills. 
• The ability to coach.
• Procurement technical skills including negotiation skills, contract drafting, drafting of relevant RfPs etc and use of category management techniques in setting category plans
• The ability to draw together requirements across multiple or individual business units and gain consensus on the procurement plan from the business
• Excellent interpersonal/influencing skills
• Excellent organisational and project management skills. 
• Be of degree calibre and have MCIPS
• Demonstrate you are a team player, a good networker who will add value to any team

For more information about this exciting role and if you meet the criteria, please submit your details without delay to info@langleysearch.com quoting MB/8059.

Langley Search & Selection (langleysearch.com) is the leading specialist recruiter in the procurement, supply chain and purchasing field.  We manage permanent and interim procurement and supply chain jobs across the UK, Europe and globally for our clients, from large global multinationals to SMEs

My client is a Fortune 500 Global Retail organisation based in Hertfordshire.  I am assisting them with an IT Category. They are looking for someone to develop and assist with the IT category.

Reporting to the Category Manager the role involves:

• Building relationships with key divisions and individuals to ascertain and understand stakeholder, business and customer requirements, strategy, challenges and opportunities. 
• Developing and delivering a procurement plan that aligns with the wider sourcing plan and delivers savings/ROI and other value-added benefits
• Developing policies and procedures that add value to their business culture

You should have the following knowledge & experience:

• Knowledge of relevant supply markets will be advantageous.  Personally, managed a wide range of IT areas of spend (e.g., Data, AI, Software, Infrastructure & Hardware)
• Excellent business knowledge and awareness
• Evidence of working in a non-mandated environment and penetrating difficult areas of spend where there may have been significant initial stakeholder resistance
• Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent and MCIPS
• Experience of developing best practice governance, procedures and policies which protect the business from risk

Ideally, you should have the following skills:

• Excellent leadership skills. 
• The ability to coach.
• Procurement technical skills including negotiation skills, contract drafting, drafting of relevant RfPs etc and use of category management techniques in setting category plans
• The ability to draw together requirements across multiple or individual business units and gain consensus on the procurement plan from the business
• Excellent interpersonal/influencing skills
• Excellent organisational and project management skills. 
• Ideally, be of degree calibre 
• Demonstrate you are a team player, a good networker who will add value to any team

For more information about this exciting role and if you meet the criteria, please submit your details without delay to info@langleysearch.com quoting MB/8057.

Langley Search & Selection (langleysearch.com) is the leading specialist recruiter in the procurement, supply chain and purchasing field.  We manage permanent and interim procurement and supply chain jobs across the UK, Europe and globally for our clients, from large global multinationals to SMEs

My Client a leading Technology organisation is currently looking for a specialist Category Manager across Professional Services, Subcontracts & Indirect services. The Category Manager will report to the Head of indirect Procurement helping internal stakeholders gain best value from their spend portfolio.  You will join the current team in delivering strategic and tactical procurement projects in Subcontract, Professional Services & indirect categories.

You will work closely with the business to run tendering processes, contract negotiations and ongoing vendor management.  You will get immediately involved in projects that are currently running and must be able to manage procurement projects to tight deadlines. 

Skills required:

• Sourcing and procurement experience, across the categories of subcontracts, professional services & indirects
• Building relationships with key divisions and individuals to ascertain and understand stakeholder, business and customer requirements, strategy, challenges and opportunities. 
• Experience of developing best practice governance, procedures and policies which protect the business from risk

Experience Required:

• Experience working in blue chip organisations.
• Ideally educated to degree level
• Procurement technical skills including negotiation skills, contract drafting, drafting of relevant RfPs etc and use of category management techniques in setting category plans
• The ability to draw together requirements across multiple or individual business units and gain consensus on the procurement plan from the business
• Excellent interpersonal/influencing skills.

For more information about this exciting role and if you meet the criteria, please submit your details without delay to info@langleysearch.com quoting MB/8057.

Langley Search & Selection (langleysearch.com) is the leading specialist recruiter in the procurement, supply chain and purchasing field.  We manage permanent and interim procurement and supply chain jobs across the UK, Europe and globally for our clients, from large global multinationals to SMEs

Our client is currently recruiting for a Procurement Manager to work within category focussed team which will deliver complex, strategic & innovative commercial projects within the corporate spend area (including ICT Technology). This role will have influence across the full commercial lifecycle from strategy to sourcing and award and also post contact management, and also bring line management opportunities.

Key Candidate Criteria:-

• Category Manager level experience, across either goods or services, which can be from either the public or private sector
• A commercial approach, with the ability to challenge the ethos, influence and deliver best value
• A pro-active business partnering / stakeholder engagement approach, across both internal clients and the supplier community.

Package

Salary banding of up to £50k, with excellent benefits. My client also offers very flexible working with 1-2 days per week in the office.

Langley are a diverse, minority-owned business and we are passionate about promoting diversity and equality. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, disability status or gender and particularly welcome applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

For further information please submit your details to nathan.ramsay@langleysearch.com or call +44 (0) 333 366 0839  quoting 8050NR

Our client a leading FTSE 250 Information Technology company is looking for an influential procurement professional to improve and drive best practice across their procurement portfolio. The main categories of focus will be IT/Technology Services.

The culture of the company is open, professional, and accountable. This individual will have the responsibility of evolving and implementing strategic sourcing and category management. In addition, this individual will have experience influencing and educating busy senior managers about best practice procurement.  

You will have experience working within a developed procurement function; rapidly sourcing information, engaging with key stakeholders, analysing spend, creating workable processes and policies to result in tangible cost reductions and more strategic procurement with a focus on a number of different spends across IT & Technology.

 The ability to demonstrate the value of strategic procurement to the key stakeholders and provide evidence of cost savings via a more considered purchasing plan. 

Key Skills:

• Manage contract performance of key suppliers, measuring performance and driving better supplier delivery in collaboration with internal stakeholders

• Experience in a category management role, e.g., end-to-end sourcing and supplier management for IT & Technology spend

• Ability to and evidence of rapidly coming to strong commercial conclusions

• IT Procurement experience.

• Experienced in creating formal strategic procurement plans for an established function.

• Excellent communication skills

• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.

• Skilled negotiator specifically.

• Ability to and experience in influencing commercial decisions at board level

• Strong Excel and IT skills are essential,

For more information about this exciting role and if you meet the criteria, please submit your details without delay to info@langleysearch.com quoting MB/8026.

Langley Search & Selection (langleysearch.com) is the leading specialist recruiter in the procurement, supply chain and purchasing field.  We manage permanent and interim procurement and supply chain jobs across the UK, Europe and globally for our clients, from large global multinationals to SMEs.

Our client a leading FTSE 250 Information Technology company is looking for an influential procurement professional to improve and drive best practice across their procurement portfolio. The main categories of focus will be Corporate Services.

The culture of the company is open, professional, and accountable. This individual will have the responsibility of evolving and implementing strategic sourcing and category management. In addition, this individual will have experience influencing and educating busy senior managers about best practice procurement.  

You will have experience working within a developed procurement function; rapidly sourcing information, engaging with key stakeholders, analysing spend, and creating workable processes and policies to result in tangible cost reductions and more strategic procurement with a focus on a number of different spends across direct and indirect.

 The ability to demonstrate the value of strategic procurement to the key stakeholders and provide evidence of cost savings via a more considered purchasing plan. 

Key Skills:

• Manage contract performance of key suppliers, measuring performance and driving better supplier delivery in collaboration with internal stakeholders
• Experience in a category management role, e.g., end-to-end sourcing and /or supplier management for a specific category of indirect spend
• Ability to and evidence of rapidly coming to firm commercial conclusions
• Indirect/ Procurement experience.
• Experienced in creating formal strategic procurement plans for an established function.
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Skilled negotiator specifically.
• Ability to and experience in influencing commercial decisions at the board level
• Strong Excel and IT skills are essential,

For more information about this exciting role and if you meet the criteria, please submit your details without delay to info@langleysearch.com quoting MB/8025.

Langley Search & Selection (langleysearch.com) is the leading specialist recruiter in the procurement, supply chain and purchasing field.  We manage permanent and interim procurement and supply chain jobs across the UK, Europe and globally for our clients, from large global multinationals to SMEs.