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Head of Procurement - FM

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Job Introduction

A rare opportunity has arisen to join our Supply Management team in a Senior Leadership position, we're currently looking to appoint an experienced leader with a rich knowledge of the Hard and Soft FM industry as Head of Procurement - FM.

Our Supply Management function uses its professional buying, supply chain deployment, operational support, data and vendor Governance teams to ensure our clients receive the highest quality, best value and professionally deployed products and services.

Our purchasing policies guarantee the quality of our sourced products and encourages our suppliers to embrace our principles: loyalty, respect for people, transparency and business integrity, which are part of our Better Tomorrow 2025 objectives. Our sustainable procurement policy focuses on sustainability, seasonality and provenance. We continually review our logistics arrangements in order to reduce delivery miles.

Role Responsibility

  • To lead an overall sourcing strategy across the UK & ROI covering both technical and quality requirements for the service line requirements within Hard and Soft FM.
  • Design and Implement category strategies which significantly improve the commercial performance at a regional level whilst maintaining compliance to company policy and standards and mitigating all risk.
  • Engage with the global buying teams in an active collaboration for developing categories globally
  • Build a strong network within the Supply Management both at a regional and local level
  • Build a strong network within Service Operations at a regional level
  • Be able to take into account the differences between the UK and ROI geographical requirements and business needs when developing the sourcing strategy
  • Design and implement adequate strategies to achieve high performance meanwhile ensuring continuity and risk mitigation
  • Ensure the relevant due diligence and buying process is adopted across all categories within remit.

The Ideal Candidate

  • Highly capable senior leader with extensive people management experience and a strategic mindset
  • Proven experience leading a hard and soft FM category management function
  • Experience deploying and managing a regional buying programme
  • Excellent stakeholder management and engagement skills
  • Ability to influence and deploy change
  • Demonstrable track record of complex contract negotiation
  • Excellent external networking capabilities
  • Team player with excellent communication skills
  • Financial acumen with a commercial mind
  • Result orientated with the ability to present results in a structured and professional manner
  • Strong project management skills
  • Ability to work in a multi-cultural and matrix environment
  • Graduate calibre with CIPS/ISM or equivalent qualification preferred

Competencies

  • Growth, client & customer satisfaction, quality of services provided
  • Leadership and people management
  • Rigorous management of results
  • Innovation and Change
  • Commercial Awareness

Travel Requirement

  • National travel will be required in this position.
  • International travel may be required in this position.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

 

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