Job Title: Procurement Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Park, Edinburgh or London
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 30th January
We’re looking for a Procurement Manager to join our high performing Procurement function, supporting the Property area of Royal London Asset Management. You’ll play a key role in delivering commercial excellence by leading sourcing activity, shaping category strategies and driving supplier value. This role offers the opportunity to influence significant spend in a ‘greenfield’ environment, strengthen stakeholder relationships, and make a meaningful impact on cost, risk and quality.
Acting as a trusted business partner, this role will engage directly with a wide range of internal and external senior stakeholders, ensuring that Procurement collaboratively delivers innovation, value, strategic thinking, and fit for purpose customer focused solutions that are aligned to Royal London's Purpose and strategy outcomes.
About the role
* Lead end‑to‑end procurement activity, including tendering, negotiations and commercial management for medium spend and risk projects across the Property Investments area
* Lead negotiator to contracts and sourcing arrangements up to £5m in value
* Design, lead and implement market leading sourcing arrangements for designated spend categories.
* Develop and implement category strategies across Property spend categories
* Create innovative commercial and supplier‑led solutions to drive cost, risk and relationship value
* Ensure full compliance with Procurement Policy and Supply Management Framework, supporting preferred supplier usage
* Build strong, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders to drive early procurement engagement and informed decision‑making
* Identify and mitigate category‑related risks, ensuring audit actions and controls are effectively managed
* Ability to manage a variety of projects simultaneously
About you
* Proven experience in category management and strategic sourcing, ideally within financial services/asset manager sector
* Property procurement experience desirable, including property management, facilities management, construction, utilities and property advisors
* Skilled negotiator with solid understanding of commercial models and contract law
* Effective communicator and influencer, able to build trusted relationships at senior levels internally and externally
* Highly analytical, able to interpret complex data and present insights clearly
* Adaptable, commercially focused and able to apply strategic thinking to category and supplier decisions
* Proficient with procurement systems and Microsoft Office
* CIPS/MCIPS or relevant qualification desirable
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.