Senior Procurement Manager

Senior Procurement Manager

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM)
Band 10 | Hybrid (minimum 2 days per week in the office)

Are you a strategic, forwardthinking procurement professional ready to make an impact across Greater Manchester?

If you’re motivated by delivering commercial value, shaping procurement strategy, and leading people, this is an exciting opportunity to join TfGM as a Senior Procurement Manager.

In this role, you will lead revenuebased procurement activity across a diverse and meaningful portfolio, spanning technology, ticketing, highways, clean energy, facilities management, and corporate services. Your work will directly support the organisation’s mission to keep Greater Manchester moving and deliver better outcomes for our communities, and deliver tangible contracts, benefits, and outcomes, that can be seen across Greater Manchester.

Your Role

In this role you will have the opportunity for:

• Leading and developing a team of procurement professionals, creating a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Driving procurement excellence across a varied spend portfolio, from ensuring legal compliance on lower-value requirements to shaping and managing complex, high-value commercial activity.
• Partnering with stakeholders at all levels, offering expert commercial insight, strategic guidance, and innovative solutions.
• Personally delivering major procurement projects that have real, visible impact across the city region.
• Ensuring best practice, value for money, and commercial robustness in everything you and your team deliver.

What You'll Bring

You’ll be commercially astute, influential, confident operating in a dynamic public sector environment, and will bring significant experience in procurement. You’ll bring strategic insight, strong leadership skills, and the ability to navigate complexity while keeping people engaged and informed.

You’ll be comfortable in team management, as well as directly leading complex procurement activity. You’ll have significant experience of end-to-end procurement, ideally in a public sector environment, and be comfortable making risk-based decisions.

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.

Working at TfGM

This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of at least two days a week in our office. You’ll be joining a passionate and supportive Procurement team at the heart of TfGM corporate and commercial services.

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:

• Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
• Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.
• Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
• 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.
• Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website

What's next?

If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. To apply please submit your CV and also complete the application form, providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

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.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within your CV

Priority Recruitment Scheme for ‘At Risk’ NHS GM Colleagues
If you are currently employed by a Greater Manchester NHS organisation and have been formally identified as ‘at risk’, please indicate this within your application for the role. If you select ‘Yes’ and provide evidence that your experience meets the essential criteria described in the job advert and role profile, you will be guaranteed progression to the next assessment stage. Please ensure your application clearly demonstrates how you meet these essential requirements, as the guarantee only applies to candidates who meet them.

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.