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About the Role
Fora is seeking a Senior Procurement Manager to strengthen procurement across the business, delivering sustainable cost efficiencies while maintaining quality and standards. This role combines commercial insight, market knowledge, and negotiation skills to challenge spend, identify value opportunities, and build supportive supplier relationships. You will collaborate with various teams to develop procurement strategies, agreements, and outcomes, while also enhancing procurement capability within the team.
Responsibilities
- Support the development and delivery of procurement strategies aligned with business priorities.
- Identify opportunities to improve value through specification, price, efficiency, demand, and alternative sourcing.
- Provide external market insight into procurement decisions.
- Balance cost efficiency with quality, service, and operational needs.
- Build strong relationships with key suppliers, setting clear expectations for quality, cost, and delivery.
- Lead supplier sourcing, evaluation, and due diligence.
- Develop and lead negotiation strategies for strong outcomes.
- Manage contracts through the sourcing and approval process, ensuring compliance with controls and standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to establish cost expectations and supplier forecasts.
- Monitor supplier spend against budgets, identifying variances, risks, and opportunities.
- Analyze spend categories to identify cost drivers and efficiency opportunities.
- Provide clear reporting on supplier performance, cost trends, and procurement KPIs.
- Identify opportunities to improve procurement processes, systems, and tools.
- Assess and manage procurement risks, including supplier disruption, cost pressures, and commercial inefficiencies.
- Develop contingency plans for critical suppliers and services to strengthen business continuity.
- Maintain high standards of compliance with internal controls, policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Build trusted relationships across Finance, Operations, Legal, and other teams.
- Work with stakeholders to define requirements and gain support for cost-efficiency initiatives.
- Coach and mentor junior colleagues, sharing procurement expertise.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, commercial thinking, and accountability within the Procurement team.
Requirements
- Proven track record in procurement, with experience across sourcing, category management, and supplier management.
- Strong knowledge of procurement processes and risk management.
- Demonstrable experience developing and leading successful supplier negotiations.
- Experience managing supplier performance and commercial relationships.
- Ability to analyze complex data and translate it into clear commercial insight.
- Experience using data visualization platforms such as Power BI.
- Experience reviewing budgets, tracking costs, and reporting against forecasts.
- Confidence working independently while collaborating effectively with stakeholders across different business functions.
- Commercially minded and comfortable challenging established thinking.
- Analytical approach combined with sound judgment.
- Ability to balance cost with quality, risk, and long-term supplier performance.
- Ability to build credible relationships with stakeholders and suppliers.
- Ability to move confidently between detailed analysis and commercial conversations.
- Proactive in identifying opportunities.
- Comfortable taking ownership.
- Keen to share expertise with others.
Skills
- Procurement Strategy
- Commercial Value
- Supplier Management
- Negotiation
- Cost Management
- Commercial Insight
- Process Improvement
- Risk Management
- Collaboration
- Team Development
- Data Analysis
- Data Visualization (Power BI)
- Budgeting
- Cost Tracking
- Reporting
- Stakeholder Management
Location
- London
- Remote (1 day per week)
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Relevant degree, postgraduate qualification, or professional certification (Desirable)
Benefits
- Core working hours with flexibility
- Two weeks ‘Work from Anywhere’
- 28 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
- Birthday off
- Option to buy additional annual leave
- 5% matched pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Discounted gym membership
- Health cash plan
- Mental wellbeing support (confidential therapy sessions)
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Loan
- 25% off at Fora cafés
- 2 x volunteer days / year
About the Company
- Fora reimagines the workplace by creating inspiring, design-led spaces that blend hospitality, community, and wellbeing.
- They have grown to over 60 locations across the UK, supporting 30,000+ members and partnering with trailblazing brands.
- Backed by The Office Group, Blackstone, and Brockton Capital, Fora is growing fast and pioneering conscious design, sustainable construction, and empowering workspaces.
- Fora is shaping the future of work.