Procurement Manager / Supply Chain Manager / Procurement Officer
What is in the Procurement Manager job description?
As a procurement manager you’ll handle a variety of projects and engage across the business with key stakeholders. You will oversee the organisation’s sourcing capabilities and be responsible for finding and evaluating suppliers, products and services.
What will be your responsibilities?
Procurement manager responsibilities broadly consist of the following things:
- Engage with stakeholders to understand business needs, ensure that procurement policy and guidelines support the needs of the organisation, and that best practise is delivered.
- Support the procurement lead in the delivery of procurement strategies relating to all spend areas.
- Support the procurement lead on complex negotiations to optimise overall commercial position.
- Manage the end-to-end procurement process (including SRM) for key contracts in collaboration with key business areas
- Develop supplier and sub-category strategies as appropriate.
- Ensure processes and procedures are fully documented and followed.
- Work closely with the sustainability team to manage supply chain in line with sustainability strategy.
- Deliver competitive advantage through cost savings, lifecycle value generation, demand management.
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What qualifications do you need?
If you’re looking to move into a Procurement Manager role, you’ll need the following qualifications and skills:
- Bachelor's Degree or greater (or equivalent industry experience)
- Experience working in a professional services environment
- Intermediate to expert level understanding of software license metrics and software procurement trends.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience in managing the end-to-end procurement process.
- Ability to analyse and manage contracts at all levels.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Ability to identify issues through sound analysis and application of commercial acumen in all situations.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail.
- Excellent IT skills.
- Flexible with the ability to work effectively under pressure and manage conflicting priorities.
To start your journey to become a Procurement Consultant, the ideal starting point is the Level 4 Diploma in Procurement and Supply. Once complete, move on to Level 5 and Level 6 qualifications that will take you all the way to MCIPS.
What does a Procurement Manager get paid?
In the UK, typically a Procurement Manager gets paid on average £49,527 based on the UK Salary Guide 2023.
A Procurement Manager sits in the Managerial level and the breakdown is as follows:
Managerial
- UK: £49,527
- Australia: $149,380
- New Zealand: $125,729
- MENA: $66,590
- South Africa: ZAR 793k
- Sub-Saharan Africa: $39,289
- North America: $99,998
- Europe: €67,157
Salaries may increase if you are studying with CIPS or change sector. To find out more about the salaries of procurement and supply professionals let our salary calculator do the hard work for you.