Procurement,Senior Management
Senior Manager - Procurement
Job ID: 010065
Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: £80,000 - £110,000 + Bonus & Benefits
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Location: Leeds / Bradford (Hybrid)
Reporting to: Director Supply Chain & Property
About the role
We’re looking for two Senior Managers in Procurement to play critical leadership roles in shaping and delivering our strategic sourcing and outsourcing agenda across the Society.
We’re recruiting into two distinct Senior Manager portfolios:
Senior Manager Technology Procurement
Leading sourcing strategies for technology, digital, data and change portfolios, partnering closely with Technology and Transformation leaders.Senior Manager Indirect Procurement
Leading indirect and corporate services procurement across functions such as People, Marketing, Professional Services, Property and Operations.
Both roles operate at enterprise scale, influence executive decisionmaking, and carry accountability for major spend and supplier risk.
These are highly visible senior roles, accountable for significant spend portfolios and enterprisewide commercial governance. You’ll bring deep procurement and category expertise to deliver longterm value, strengthen organisational resilience, and enable innovation through bestinclass sourcing strategies, supplier partnerships and commercial insight.
Working closely with Executive and senior leaders, you’ll influence thirdparty strategy across the organisation and ensure sourcing decisions align with our Group Strategy and One Plan objectives.
What you’ll do
Lead and deliver strategic sourcing, outsourcing and supplier strategies across a complex, regulated environment, ensuring alignment with legal, risk and regulatory requirements.
Take accountability for a large, enterprisewide supplier portfolio (300+ suppliers / c.£150m annual spend), driving strong commercial governance and performance management.
Represent Procurement at Senior Leadership Team and Executive Committee forums, influencing thirdparty strategy, supplier rationalisation, and early engagement on sourcing needs.
Develop and execute longhorizon category and sourcing strategies that deliver value generation, cost optimisation, resilience and supplierenabled innovation.
Lead the consideration of outsourcing, insourcing, cosourcing and partnership models to support business strategy and operational effectiveness.
Lead, coach and develop a highperforming Category & Sourcing team, building future capability and continuously improving ways of working.
What you’ll need
Seniorlevel experience leading complex strategic sourcing and procurement initiatives.
Strong commercial and analytical capability, including category strategy, total cost of ownership modelling, costbenefit analysis and commercial risk assessment.
Extensive experience delivering largescale sourcing and outsourcing programmes (typically £10m+ TCV), using a range of competitive sourcing approaches (RFI, RFP, RFQ, eauctions).
Demonstrated expertise in supplier risk management, operational resilience and managing transition or migration risks.
Proven ability to influence Executive and Boardlevel stakeholders with clear, compelling commercial insight and recommendations.
A strong people leader, with experience building capability, coaching others and driving a culture of commercial excellence and accountability.
Why join us?
This is an opportunity to shape enterprisewide sourcing strategy, influence executive decisionmaking, and make a tangible impact on value, resilience and commercial maturity across the organisation while leading and developing a highimpact procurement team.
Our Head Office teams are known as Enabling Functions. They're open, innovative, collaborative and always focused on doing what’s right.
And they’re here to support our colleagues by providing a range of high quality, head office services, including risk, HR, finance and marketing. Whatever team you join, you’ll discover that it’s a welcoming, supportive and inclusive place to be, with all the flexibility you need to make work a rewarding part of your life.
About Our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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Competitive bonus package
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Our Colleague Networks & Groups
Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.
Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:
Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
Hear from some of our people about what working at Yorkshire Building Society is like, and what it means for them…
Our ways of working and flexibility
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. We help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this.
Find out more about our Ways of WorkingMeet the Recruiter(s)
Jessica Wilkinson
Executive Resourcing Specialist
Connect with Jessica WilkinsonSince being at YBS I have been fortunate enough to have gained experience recruiting in most of our head office functions including People, Risk, Finance, Commercial and Audit.
I am currently working in our Exec Resourcing team working on senior level recruitment in Risk, Commercial and Internal Audit and would love to hear from you if you are interested in senior opportunities in these areas!
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