Procurement Manager

at  CBRE

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• CIPS qualified (or in-progress / aspiration to complete) or equivalent with operational experience of managing and working within diverse and complex organisation.
• Customer focused, with excellent influencing and communication skills.
• The ability to work with and influence a broad range and level of stakeholders and supplier staff.
• Collaborative approach, with the ability to maximise short term whilst building upon long-term productive relationships.
• Thrive on working within a fast paced organisation across the UK, with a diverse supply base and wide geographical spread of contracts.
• Strong commercial acumen and a proven track record of identifying and delivering substantial savings.
• Proficient analytical skills and a measured approach to decision making.
• This role involves nationwide travel

JOB PURPOSE:

As a direct report to the Divisional Procurement Manager, you will support the Divisional Procurement strategy to ensure the business needs are met of value for money, quality delivery and risk management.
You will support the business by educating, influencing and advising key stakeholders on procurement best practice concurrent with effective supplier management and development of CBRE GWS suppliers, resulting in exceptional standard of performance and contribution towards sustainable growth and profitability.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The role responsibilities will be split between Division wide activities, with a specific focus on the Land Securities (Landsec) contract within the UK Services Division. The exact split of role responsibilities will be flexible to meet the changing demands and workload of the Division and Landsec contract, but across the year will roughly be 50:50.
The Landsec part of the role will very similar to that of the Divisional role – educating, influencing and advising stakeholders on procurement best practice – alongside deploying sound procurement techniques to drive value from a cost, performance and risk mitigation perspective.