Procurement Lead

To lead and execute strategic procurement and sourcing activities that drive cost efficiency, ensure supply reliability, and support business growth. The role is responsible for supporting the existing team, managing supplier relationships, ensuring compliance with corporate governance standards, mitigating risk, and fostering cross-functional collaboration to achieve the organisation’s strategic objectives.

• Compliance & Risk Management: Ensure strict adherence to company procurement policies, ethical standards, and legal requirements. Identify potential supply chain risks and develop contingency plans to mitigate them.
• Stakeholder Management: Partner with internal stakeholders (Operations, Finance, Engineering, Quality, and Supply Chain) to understand business needs and align procurement activities with corporate and operational priorities.
• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of procurement professionals. Establish clear goals, provide training, and encourage continuous improvement and innovation within the procurement function.
• Strategic Sourcing: Develop and implement sourcing strategies for critical raw materials nationally and internally. Build and maintain strong supplier relationships, monitor performance, and negotiate contracts to ensure value for money and service excellence.
• Corporate Governance & Sustainability Promote transparency and accountability in all purchasing practices. Ensure compliance with group procurement & Sustainability policies, standards, and best practices in corporate governance.
• Cost Management & Inventory Optimisation: Conduct spend analysis, identify cost-saving opportunities, and implement initiatives to reduce total cost of ownership/inventory while maintaining product and service quality.

• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with new and existing suppliers, monitoring their performance and managing contracts effectively.
• Demonstrate high levels of IT skills in Excel, Power BI and other tools to analyse large scale data particularly relating to key raw materials thus making data-driven decisions to improve procurement outcomes.
• Degree or higher qualification in Procurement or Finance.
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic with the ability to work on one’s own initiative
• Analytical Skills: Proficiency in analysing data, Power BI, identifying trends, and making data-driven decisions to improve procurement outcomes.
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills required
• A strong track record of cross departmental team work.
• Ability to lead and provide guidance and support.