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About the Role

The Operations team provides the platform and tools to enable the organization to deliver on its statutory objectives. Procurement sits within the Finance and Corporate Services Directorate and works with departments across the FCA to source goods and services required from third parties. This role is responsible for ensuring procurements deliver contracts to agreed time, budget and quality, which are compliant with Public Procurement Regulations.

Responsibilities

Deliver sourcing and contracting strategies across a portfolio of IT categories, including cloud services and end user computing, in line with the FCA procurement strategy.
Lead low risk/low complexity sourcing activity end-to-end, including RFx, supplier negotiations, and contract drafting/renewals, ensuring policy compliance, minimum standards, and alignment to business needs.
Manage external supplier spend and drive value through strong commercial judgment, market awareness, and effective sourcing/contracting approaches.
Ensure procurement projects meet objectives—delivered on time, within budget, and to required quality standards, managing moderate complexity/risk renewals and sourcing projects.
Use and promote FCA procurement systems and processes, delivering work consistently with FCA procurement standards and governance.

Requirements

End-to-end procurement understanding: Able to scope business requirements, plan sourcing projects, produce tender documentation and follow appropriate project governance.
Experience running simple procurement exercises: Confident liaising with stakeholders, issuing tenders, evaluating responses and producing contract documents using templates.
Working knowledge of procurement/purchasing systems and willingness to work towards a relevant qualification.
Clear, concise communication (written and verbal), able to explain complex issues succinctly to audiences at all levels.
Strong stakeholder management & influencing skills, building rapport with senior stakeholders and challenging constructively when needed.
Cross-functional collaboration, comfortable working with teams such as Legal, Finance, Risk, IT and other specialist functions.
Commercial & negotiation capability, applying market/industry insight to deliver tenders, negotiate contracts and drive value/innovation.
IT category awareness, ideally with knowledge of cloud services and end user computing (or ability to learn quickly).
Sound judgement & business acumen, able to cut through complexity, make timely decisions and keep focus on the bigger picture.
Organisational resilience & delivery focus, able to prioritise/multitask under pressure with a methodical, detail-oriented approach and strong customer service mindset.

Skills

IT category awareness
Cloud services knowledge
End user computing knowledge
Procurement systems
Purchasing systems
Written communication
Verbal communication
Stakeholder management
Influencing skills
Cross-functional collaboration
Commercial capability
Negotiation capability
Market insight
Industry insight
Judgement
Business acumen
Organisational resilience
Delivery focus
Prioritization
Multitasking
Customer service

Location

National (Edinburgh and Leeds)
London

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Associate - Level 8 - Corporate

Salary/Compensations

National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £39,100 to £42,000
London from £41,600 to £45,000

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary
Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection and 24/7 Employee Assistance
35 hours of paid volunteering annually
Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders). Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors)
A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle

About the Company

We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you’ll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth and shaping the future of UK finance services.
Operations provides the platform and tools to enable the organisation to deliver on its statutory objectives. We work in partnership with the rest of the organisation to provide specialist support across a wide range of areas to deliver quality services and value for money.
Procurement sits within the Finance and Corporate Services Directorate and works with departments across the FCA to source goods and services (£300m annual spend) required from third parties. We are responsible for ensuring procurements deliver contracts to agreed time, budget and quality, which are compliant with Public Procurement Regulations.

Equal Opportunity

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better regulation.
If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.
We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.