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About the Role
The Crown Estate is seeking a Strategic Procurement Manager to act as a catalyst for value, innovation, and sustainable growth. This role involves shaping the procurement roadmap, influencing demand early, and designing competitive procedures. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted commercial partner to senior stakeholders, challenging assumptions and demonstrating market capabilities while setting standards for commercial excellence.
Responsibilities
- Owning the Enterprise Pipeline and building a multi-year view of demand to identify opportunities.
- Partnering with stakeholders early to shape requirements and guiding them through governance.
- Designing tailored sourcing strategies and evaluation criteria that are compliant, commercially sound, and value-driven.
- Leveraging market insight and supplier engagement to drive innovation, improve quality, and reduce costs.
- Leading relationships with allocated strategic suppliers under a new tiered SRM framework and managing supply chain risk.
- Embedding sustainability and social value into contracts for practical delivery.
- Utilizing spend analysis to track and report procurement's delivered value.
- Mentoring colleagues and leading change to implement new SRM and contract management frameworks.
Requirements
- Substantial hands-on experience delivering complex, end-to-end procurement in a public sector or regulated environment.
- Expertise in UK Public Procurement Regulations and best-practice commercial standards.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills to translate data and market insight into practical strategies.
- Confidence to influence, challenge, and partner with senior stakeholders.
- A track record of developing and mentoring others.
- Exposure to a supplier relationship management programme is an advantage.
- MCIPS is desirable.
Location
- England
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- MCIPS desirable
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Pension
- Performance related bonus
- Flexible working
- Market leading family policies
- Shopping discounts in the West End
- Private healthcare
- Life cover
- Critical illness cover
- 28 days holiday with the option to buy more
About the Company
- The Crown Estate manages land, property, and the seabed across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
- The organisation works with a group of experts on a diverse portfolio, including central London's best places to work and shop, the Windsor Estate, and the UK's offshore wind sector.
- The Crown Estate values work-life balance and employee wellbeing.
Equal Opportunity
- The Crown Estate is a proud disability confident employer and operates the offer of interview scheme.
- Alternative application methods or formats are available, and flexibility can be offered in the recruitment process.
- Contact careers@thecrownestate.co.uk for questions about the recruitment process or to discuss adjustments.