A leading global consultancy is expanding iand seeking an ambitious Associate Procurement Director to join its UK team. Working with major clients across infrastructure, real estate, energy and natural resources, you will help shape and deliver some of the country's most complex and high-profile programmes.

This is an exceptional opportunity to accelerate your career in a high-growth environment, influence national-scale programmes, and lead multidisciplinary teams delivering strategic procurement and commercial excellence. You will work with blue-chip organisations, government departments, utilities, defence clients, and major private-sector investors-helping them transform outcomes, enhance value and deliver long-term impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead major procurement programmes across public and private sectors.
• Develop innovative, compliant procurement strategies that drive value.
• Shape sourcing approaches, tender documentation, commercial models and evaluation frameworks.
• Provide expert guidance on NEC, JCT and other major contract forms.
• Ensure procurement activity is aligned with regulations including PCR 2015.
• Act as a senior point of contact for clients, building trusted relationships.
• Oversee delivery of commissions, ensuring excellence across outputs and deliverables.
• Support clients through complex commercial, contractual and procurement challenges.
• Provide clear intelligence, insight and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Lead and mentor a specialist team of consultants and procurement professionals.
• Create a high-performance culture with strong accountability and delivery standards.
• Support career development, training, coaching and performance management.
• Develop new service lines across transformation, sustainability and digital procurement.
• Create thought leadership, market intelligence and best-practice framework

You will have:

• Experience delivering or leading complex, high-value procurements end-to-end.
• Strong background in regulated procurement, including PCR 2015.
• Leadership of procurement on major infrastructure, real estate, utilities, defence or public-sector programmes.
• Expertise drafting tender strategies, commercial documents and evaluation models.
• Experience managing client relationships and delivering commissions at senior level.
• Proven ability to manage and develop teams.
• Knowledge of NEC and JCT contracts.
• Strong track record working with multidisciplinary stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, commercial and strategic thinking capability.
• Ideally experience in Defence, Utilities, Infrastructure (rail, highways) or Energy.
• Business development experience, including bid writing and work winning.
• Cross-sector exposure spanning public and private environments.
• Experience creating supply chain intelligence, SRM frameworks or commercial modelling

This is an excetional oportunity to lead national and international projects with significant scope for progression within a growing division. The team are ollaborative, inclusive and offer a hybrid working environment to support work life balance.

If this opportunity excites you and aligns with your experience, send your CV today to be have a chat and to learn more......