Procurement & Commercial Manager

Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in our Reading, Havant, Glasgow or Perth office. Travel to our Reading office will be required. 

Salary: £Competitive + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family. 

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available 

The role 

As Senior Procurement & Commercial Manager – Distribution, you’ll provide strategic procurement and commercial leadership across some of Distribution’s most significant transformation and investment activity. 

You’ll lead the Procurement & Commercial support for the Bridge Programme, provide senior commercial oversight and governance of the Prime Delivery Partner contract, and help shape the commercial strategy and readiness required to support ED3. 

Working with senior business leaders, programme teams and strategic suppliers, you’ll ensure complex commercial arrangements are effectively governed, risks and opportunities are understood, and commercial decisions deliver sustainable value for the business. You’ll provide constructive challenge and strategic commercial advice, ensuring contractual commitments, supplier performance, change, expenditure and emerging requirements are managed effectively. 

You’ll also lead and develop a team of procurement and commercial professionals, creating clear accountability, building capability and empowering the team to deliver high-quality commercial outcomes. 

You will 

• Lead and develop a high-performing Procurement & Commercial team, setting clear priorities and accountabilities while building the capability required to support complex programmes and strategic contracts. 

• Provide strategic P&C leadership across Bridge, Prime and ED3, shaping commercial strategy and ensuring alignment with Distribution’s business, investment and regulatory priorities. 

• Own and strengthen commercial governance for the Prime Delivery Partner arrangement, providing senior oversight of contractual obligations, commercial performance, risk, change, expenditure and key decisions. 

• Act as a trusted commercial adviser and constructive challenger to senior stakeholders, leading significant negotiations and providing clear recommendations on commercial risk, value, supplier performance and contractual matters. 

• Drive long-term value and continuous improvement, strengthening supplier relationships, improving commercial insight and establishing effective, scalable governance across Distribution’s strategic programmes. 

You have 

• Significant procurement and commercial leadership experience within a complex, regulated, infrastructure, technology or transformation environment. 

• Proven experience leading the commercial strategy and governance of large-scale programmes, strategic contracts and complex supplier relationships. 

• Strong commercial and financial acumen, with extensive experience of contract negotiation, commercial governance, risk management, supplier performance and change. 

• The credibility and judgement to influence senior stakeholders and strategic suppliers, constructively challenge established positions and lead complex commercial decisions. 

• Proven people leadership experience, with the ability to lead, coach and develop high-performing procurement and commercial teams.