Senior Procurement Manager

The Vacancy

Lead the transformation of our procurement and supplier management capability. As our Senior Procurement Manager, you'll set the strategy, lead a talented team, and partner with senior leaders to deliver commercial value, operational resilience, and ESG-aligned outcomes.

What will we offer you?

Firstly, what will we offer you as a one of our valued colleagues?

• 28 days' holiday, plus bank holidays PLUS a day off on your birthday to help you celebrate!
• Opportunity to purchase additional holidays.
• A commitment to your ongoing training and development including a rotational development programme.
• Up to 14 hours of paid Society leave to volunteer for a local community initiative.
• 'Dress for your Day' approach when in the office.
• Various health and wellbeing benefits such as 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme, subsidised flu jabs and eye tests.
• Private healthcare (subject to selection & completion of medical disclosure form).
• Personal health cash plan and dental cover (subject to selection).
• Life Assurance - 4 times your basic salary life cover, along with critical illness cover.
• Generous Stakeholder Pension Scheme - where the Society contributes a massive 10% on top of your 3% contribution!

What will you be doing?

As Senior Procurement Manager, you will own the end-to-end third-party lifecycle - from category strategy and sourcing through to contract management and supplier risk oversight. You will lead a small procurement team and set a clear three-year strategy aligned to cost efficiency, digital transformation, operational resilience and ESG priorities. Working closely with the Executive, Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk & Compliance and Product teams, you will ensure our supply base underpins delivery of the Society's strategic plan. You'll also act as a trusted adviser on supplier strategy, market dynamics and commercial decision-making.

Your key tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Developing and delivering a three-year procurement and supplier management strategy aligned to Society priorities.
• Leading and coaching a team of procurement professionals, setting clear objectives and building capability.
• Establishing and embedding a category management framework across key spend areas.
• Running end-to-end sourcing activity, including RFP/RFQ processes, negotiation and recommendation.
• Embedding a structured supplier management and governance framework, including tiering, performance oversight and remediation.
• Ensuring robust third-party risk management aligned to FCA/PRA expectations and operational resilience requirements.
• Driving commercial value through savings initiatives, improved contract governance and enhanced supplier performance.

What type of person will you need to be?

You will be a confident and inclusive leader who brings clarity, structure and commercial insight to complex challenges. Able to influence at Executive and Board level, you will communicate with credibility while building trusted relationships across the organisation. You will balance strong risk awareness with a pragmatic, solutions-focused mindset, ensuring compliance without unnecessary bureaucracy. Naturally collaborative, you will enjoy coaching others, strengthening capability and creating a positive team culture. With sound judgement and a calm approach, you will be comfortable managing competing priorities and making decisions that support both resilience and long-term value.

Essential qualifications and experience

• Degree qualified or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong commercial and negotiation expertise with proven stakeholder management at senior level.
• Demonstrable experience building business cases, tracking value delivery and managing supplier performance.
• Experience operating within a regulated environment, with understanding of third-party risk and compliance expectations.
• Ability to prepare clear reporting and present confidently to senior forums.
• MCIPS or relevant professional certification desirable.

If you are passionate about shaping a procurement function that supports strategic ambition and operational resilience, we would welcome your application.

Additional information:

We're committed to diversity and equal opportunity and as an inclusive employer, we encourage applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term health condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing) and any other protected characteristic.

Just let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment processes, we'll try to accommodate them.

We want everyone to be able to fulfil their potential which is why we provide a range of flexible working arrangements and family friendly policies.

Our roles often generate a lot of interest and can close early so don't miss out this opportunity to apply!

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The Company

Monmouthshire Building Society values the diversity that all sections of the community can bring to our Society, we welcome applications from everyone who shares our values.

As a financial services organisation regulated by the PRA and FCA our staff must be honest, financially sound and maintain high levels of competence and capability in their role. Therefore our pre-employment checks include adverse credit checks and criminal records checks (DBS checks) at a basic disclosure level for the majority of roles but at the standard level for certain roles.