Average Procurement Specialist salary in the UK

IT Procurement & Vendor Management SpecialistFinancial Services FirmPermanent, Up to £60,000 p/aMinimum 3 days in London Office / 2 days WFHYour new companyA leading international platform that facilitates trading, serving as a cornerstone for global price discovery and risk management. With a history spanning over a century, it plays a pivotal role in connecting producers, consumers, and financial institutions.Your new roleAs an IT Procurement & Vendor Management Specialist, you will be responsible for ensuring the effective and efficient management of the IT supply chain vendors. You will be working with their Clearing, Corporate & Post Trade team, as well as their Info Sec and Data teams to effectively balance cost, quality and risk. Your main aim for this role will be to work with the IT, Finance and Legal managers, taking responsibility for their vendor management, sourcing and procurement of IT products and services. Lastly, you will work alongside the Head of IT Procurement & Vendor Management to help develop the capability of the procurement team, as well as the commercial awareness of the IT function.What you'll need to succeedWe are looking forward to speaking with professionals that can confidently engage and manage stakeholder/supplier meetings effectively. You will need proficiency across all IT subcategories, as well as a competency within contractural agreements and reviews (an understanding of Contracts Law will prove to be beneficial). You will be required to support the development of the Procurement strategy plans for strategic sourcing & category management. Confident and articulateExperience managing senior stakeholder meetingsProficiency in e2e IT ProcurementAble to work in a fast-paced environment What you'll get in returnYou will receive a competitive salary of up to £60,000. P/a and will typically be required in the office 3 times a week. The flat structure of the organisation allows you to have exposure to senior leaders in the business, enabling further and quicker development. Due to the current small procurement team, you will be able to make an impact on the trajectory of the function, as well as further your development through a multi-hatted role. Working in a fast-paced environment will provide you with greater opportunities for personal development. What you need to do nowIf you're interested in this role, please contact me directly via email ,Or call me.PleaseOnly apply if you have checked the boxes above to a high degree. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

IT Procurement & Vendor Management SpecialistFinancial Services FirmPermanent, Up to £60,000 p/aMinimum 3 days in London Office / 2 days WFHYour new companyA leading international platform that facilitates trading, serving as a cornerstone for global price discovery and risk management. With a history spanning over a century, it plays a pivotal role in connecting producers, consumers, and financial institutions.Your new roleAs an IT Procurement & Vendor Management Specialist, you will be responsible for ensuring the effective and efficient management of the IT supply chain vendors. You will be working with their Clearing, Corporate & Post Trade team, as well as their Info Sec and Data teams to effectively balance cost, quality and risk. Your main aim for this role will be to work with the IT, Finance and Legal managers, taking responsibility for their vendor management, sourcing and procurement of IT products and services. Lastly, you will work alongside the Head of IT Procurement & Vendor Management to help develop the capability of the procurement team, as well as the commercial awareness of the IT function.What you'll need to succeedWe are looking forward to speaking with professionals that can confidently engage and manage stakeholder/supplier meetings effectively. You will need proficiency across all IT subcategories, as well as a competency within contractural agreements and reviews (an understanding of Contracts Law will prove to be beneficial). You will be required to support the development of the Procurement strategy plans for strategic sourcing & category management. Confident and articulateExperience managing senior stakeholder meetingsProficiency in e2e IT ProcurementAble to work in a fast-paced environment What you'll get in returnYou will receive a competitive salary of up to £60,000. P/a and will typically be required in the office 3 times a week. The flat structure of the organisation allows you to have exposure to senior leaders in the business, enabling further and quicker development. Due to the current small procurement team, you will be able to make an impact on the trajectory of the function, as well as further your development through a multi-hatted role. Working in a fast-paced environment will provide you with greater opportunities for personal development. What you need to do nowIf you're interested in this role, please contact me directly via email ,Or call me.PleaseOnly apply if you have checked the boxes above to a high degree. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Role: Marketing Procurement Specialist Salary: up to £95,000 DOE Permanent: Hybrid - mandatory 2 days in office Location: London - Soho Ref: VFR20254 VisionFR is working with a pioneering, and high-performing global team with a passion and purpose to support, inspire, and transform the lives of marketers. They help increase marketing effectiveness through better integrated marketing, by fixing and fine-tuning the clients’ marketing resources to find a talented and experienced Marketing Procurement Specialist with an entrepreneurial spirit located in the UK. The Role The Marketing Procurement Specialist will help lead and build business capabilities, and transform the lives of marketers through client projects spanning all areas of our services — marketing operations, marketing skills & capabilities, marketing technology, and agency management. The role will be responsible for leading and managing exciting and complex client projects, including (but not limited to): running pitches, facilitating workshops, designing new marketing organisational structures and processes, helping create new tech and data architectures, writing presentations, conducting client interviews, and promoting agency services. Responsibilities of the Marketing Procurement Specialist: Clients: Lead client projects with things such as (but not limited to) workshop preparation & logistics, presentation writing, client interviews, information gathering, conduct research proposal writing, problem solving and cross selling services.Management: Managing project teams’ to ensure that all work is delivered to the highest standard ensuring on-time, in-budget delivery. Contribute to the building of Culture.Thought Leadership: Intellectual and product leadership within your practice area. Create and inspire content in partnership with sales and marketing channel experts (CRM, social, etc.).Commercial: Deliver on business growth targets ensuring that the agency constantly add value to clients and support the revenue growthStrategy: Drive our Partner integration — have partnerships with production and media auditors. Contribute to the development of Agency Management Tools Requirements of the Marketing Procurement Specialist: Naturally collaborative and thrive in a flat, flexible organisation.Thoughtful communicators, fostering meaningful relationships across a diverse partner community.Caring and inclusive leaders — committed to learning and leveraging differences as strengths.Pragmatic and optimistic, with energy and enthusiasm for what’s next shining through in everything they do.Curious and courageous — using deep business insight to drive innovation. The Marketing Procurement Specialist will have the following Skills & Experience: Minimum of 10 years’ hands-on contracting experience and deep knowledge of U.S. marketing industry best practices. Strong understanding of, and experience with, the latest industry best practices (WFA/ANA/ISBA — transparency, audit rights, personnel, representation, data, AI, responsible sourcing), and have developed your own recent experience contracting for marketing services across all agency types.Strong ability to large-scale contract reviews to develop best practices.Experience across multiple advertiser category sectors.Detail-oriented and highly organised.Ability to work independently without guidance.Professional demeanour with proven ability to quickly build trusted, senior-level client relationships. Benefits: Competitive salary and benefits, including private health cover (dental/optical), employer/employee pension match, and flexible working.Personal development and well-being fund.Discretionary bonus scheme.Continuous formal and informal training to acquire and build specialist skills.Opportunity to work with leading local and global companies.International and multicultural environment — we are a global consultancy.Dynamic, fun, and collaborative working environment. VisionFR is committed to encouraging equality, diversity, inclusion and eliminating unlawful discrimination within our workforce and whilst fulfilling our Clients recruitment needs. Due to the high level of applications being received if you do not hear from us within 5 working days, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion, usually due to other candidates having more relevant sector exposure, qualifications or required skills. We thank you for your interest.