Director Global Procurement
2 days ago
Liverpool
Job Title: Global Procurement Regional Implementation Lead Location: London, Sheffield, Birmingham, Southampton & Edinburgh Contract Type: Fixed-Term Contract (FTC) Start Date: January 2026 Industry: Financial Services – Asset Management / Insurance Company: Global Banking Institution Some careers shine brighter than others. If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out and fulfil your potential, this opportunity offers support, rewards, and exciting new directions. Your Career Opportunity Dynamic and proactive, Global Procurement delivers tangible commercial value. A varied remit spans all aspects of the procurement lifecycle worldwide—from leading relationships with suppliers to ensuring alignment across spending plans. Highly engaged with the business, Procurement specialists develop deep strategic understanding. This leads to stronger approaches to measuring success and ultimately ensures the organization operates ever more effectively. Global Procurement is part of Digital Business Services, providing essential operational and technical support to global teams and helping improve customer service and efficiency. Operations, Services, and Technology combine global expertise and technology to help stay ahead of the competition. The Global Procurement Change and Innovation team helps shape and implement strategic change for internal and external third parties, delivering outcomes that support strategic priorities and add value. The team brings execution skills, a design-led approach, and delivers at pace to achieve desired business outcomes on large, complex, cross-functional projects including local regulatory initiatives. Within a value stream approach, the Regional Implementation Lead will be accountable for the regional implementation and management of key strategic change programmes across Global Procurement Services including Source to Contract, Procure to Pay, Third Party Management including Supplier Management, and other key areas. What You’ll Do • Work closely with the Global Procurement Head of Change and Innovation, Procurement Service Process and Product Owners to manage and achieve delivery against identified initiatives and outcomes, • Manage all key region/market stakeholders enabling delivery outcomes to be met, • Be the key regional SME for all region/market regulatory requirements, • Manage and report on progress to stakeholders, oversee the tracking of risks/issues/dependencies, • Promote adherence to project/programme governance model and use defined standards and tools for processes such as risk logs, change control, and resource requests, • Work closely with each project team and delivery stakeholders to ensure smooth change delivery, • Build, maintain, and strengthen mutually beneficial, sustainable relationships with internal and external stakeholders, • Engage stakeholders through effective communication, conveying complex and technical information in a meaningful and compelling way, • Leverage stakeholder relationships to ensure synergies between people and groups are recognised and harnessed, • Proactively apply change management approaches and techniques, • Establish relationships with key project, region, and market stakeholders, • Adopt Global Procurement Change Governance and standard Change Frameworks, • Act as a role model to create and maintain a collaborative team environment that supports and encourages professionalism and team development What You Need to Succeed • Strong working knowledge of procurement processes and services, • Experience in one or more Procurement specialties: sourcing, procure to pay, third party management, supplier management, procurement operations, • Ability to grow a network of stakeholder relationships to facilitate effective delivery, • Flexibility and resilience in responding to multiple requirements and competing priorities, • Ability to grasp complex and incomplete information to make timely decisions, • Experience with change implementation techniques and approaches, • Strong communication skills across a range of stakeholders, • Experience in Programme / Project Management, • Strong written and verbal communication skills, • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, • Ability to work within a team and/or independently, • Self-starter with ownership mindset, • Awareness of Change Frameworks, Agile methodologies, and best practice techniques, • Understanding of organizational purpose, values, culture, and transformation fundamentals, • General financial services industry knowledge with specific functional expertise, • Proficiency in at least one of the following platforms: Coupa, Oracle Fusion, or ServiceNow.