Procurement Director
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Location
London
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
£125000 - £140000 per annum
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Contact:
Sarah Hewitson
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Contact email:
sarah.hewitson@1st-executive.com
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Job ref:
SH8876_1770743488
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Published:
about 5 hours ago
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Expiry date:
2026-03-12
I have an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Director to join a dynamic, fast growing sports and entertainment business in a newly created role.
As Procurement Director in this fast paced start up, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the business's future, owning the global procurement strategy and leading a function that directly influences financial performance, risk, and long-term sustainability.
This is a highly visible leadership role, partnering closely with the Executive Team to inform major investment decisions, build strategic supplier partnerships, and embed procurement as a true value-driving discipline across the organisation, drawing on strong commercial and infrastructure-led procurement principles and translating them into a fast-moving environment
- Develop and lead the procurement function across all indirect spend categories including the application of robust infrastructure and construction-based procurement disciplines across relevant spend categories.
- Lead procurement strategy and commercial oversight for infrastructure, venue build, and event-related delivery, with direct leadership of the Senior Quantity Surveyor, ensuring strong cost control, scope discipline, and commercial governance.
- Act as the enterprise-wide authority on procurement, commercial sourcing, and supplier strategy, influencing the strategic direction at executive level and advising on major investments, supplier partnerships, routes to market, and commercial risk.
- The role would suit someone from an SME background where you have been both the strategic driver as well as hands on operations.
- Broad experience in Indirect categories including IT, Marketing, Travel, FM, Construction/ Engineering
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