Senior Procurement Manager
| Posting date: | 08 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 August 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M1 3BG |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75714268 |
Summary
Are you passionate about strategic procurement and delivering value? Ready for a new challenge in a high-impact public sector role?
Join Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) as our Senior Procurement Manager and lead revenue-based procurement across a diverse portfolio, including technology, ticketing, highways, clean energy, facilities management, and corporate services.
You’ll lead and manage a team of three to drive commercial value and ensure procurement excellence across a diverse spend portfolio, from ensuring legal compliance and best practice on low value requirements, to actively shaping and managing complex, high-value procurement activity. If you’re commercially sharp, collaborative, and ready to lead in a dynamic public sector environment, this role is for you.
This is hybrid role where you will be expected to work in the office 2 days per week as a minimum.
Please read the role profile below for more information, in addition to reviewing this candidate pack that we’ve put together!
Who are we?
You’ll be joining a dedicated team of 14 procurement professionals at the heart of TfGM, part of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) family. We shape and deliver procurement across a wide range of categories to keep Greater Manchester moving, from maintaining the transport network to delivering innovative projects that improve services for customers.
As part of the wider Commercial Services team, we work across the organisation on projects that directly impact the region, improving services for customers and communities. It’s a rewarding role offering real development opportunities and the opportunity to lead and develop a team of procurement professionals.
What you’ll bring
What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.
The ideal candidate will bring significant experience in procurement, ideally including within the public procurement regulatory environment. You’ll have a strong track record of managing both low and high-value contracts across a range of categories, ideally including either technology, facilities, or green energy and associated infrastructure. You’ll have led complex sourcing projects and delivered measurable savings. Experience managing a procurement team and engaging senior stakeholders is essential, and you’ll need to be comfortable making risk-based decisions and ambiguity. Strong commercial acumen, negotiation skills, and strategic thinking are key.
What we can offer you
This is a full-time opportunity to join a supportive and collaborative team at TfGM, where your leadership will make a real impact. You’ll have autonomy to lead and develop a capable revenue-based procurement team, which forms part of the wider procurement department, and you’ll play a key role in shaping and modernising our ways of working. Working on complex, high-profile projects, you’ll have the opportunity to influence the future of transport in Greater Manchester, while enjoying the backing of an organisation committed to continuous improvement and professional growth.
This is a permanent role with a salary of £70,906 to £79,805 per annum depending on skills and experience.
At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process.
Our benefits include:
28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
Free bus travel within Greater Manchester and free Rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary
Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions
Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role
We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required
Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
What's next?
To apply please submit your CV and complete your application ensuring that you provide clear examples against the criteria questions, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on your CV. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.
Internal candidates - check with your line manager before applying for a secondment, to make sure you can be released from your substantive role.
We embrace AI to enhance our operations and to innovate our services. However, we value human talent and are looking for passionate individuals to join our organisation. Please ensure you personally complete your application and read all the instructions carefully to maximise your chances of success.
Applications that rely too heavily on AI may be rejected during shortlisting, however we understand that AI may be used as a reasonable adjustment, if using AI to support your application, please give a brief explanation why to help ensure fair selection process.
TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.
For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.
Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.
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