The Role
Build and lead Field’s global indirect procurement function across the UK and Europe. Responsibilities include mapping spend, consolidating suppliers, standardizing procurement processes, leading tenders, negotiating software, services, facilities, and technology contracts, and managing contractual risk and compliance. The role partners extensively with HR, Finance, Legal, IT, Engineering, and Operations while delivering cost savings and supporting international growth.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Indirects Procurement Manager is a pivotal, company-wide role responsible for the end-to-end management, mapping, and optimization of Field’s corporate and operational indirect expenditure. Reporting to the Head of Procurement, you will build a robust indirect procurement function from scratch—acting as a crucial commercial business partner to our global HR, Finance, Legal, IT, and Engineering teams.
This is a globally focused position. We require an agile operator with extensive international experience who has supported and scaled operations across multiple jurisdictions (including the UK, Germany, Spain, and Italy). Leveraging a strong legal background or degree, you will directly navigate, draft, and negotiate complex commercial contract schedules, global SaaS licensing agreements, and cross-border service contracts.
Thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth scale-up environment is essential. You must be able to map fragmented company expenses, run efficient tenders under tight timelines, and establish robust procurement protocols that protect cash flow and support our rapid global expansion.
Key Responsibilities
Main responsibilities:
Global Expense Mapping & Strategic Sourcing
- Cross-Jurisdictional Spend Diagnostics: Conduct a comprehensive audit of all company-wide indirect expenses across our UK and European entities to build Field’s first unified global indirect spend matrix.
- Global Supplier Consolidation: Identify opportunities to consolidate vendor pools across international lines (e.g., consultants, recruitment agencies, travel management, and workspace facilities) to leverage portfolio volumes for bulk discounts.
- Process Standardization: Build simple, accessible procurement templates and buying guidelines so that busy internal teams across different countries can buy autonomously while remaining commercially protected.
Deep Cross-Functional Corporate ScopeHuman Resources (HR) & People Operations: Partner with HR to tender and manage high-value global benefits packages, insurance policies, international recruitment frameworks, and relocation or contingent labor services.
- Finance & Subscriptions: Support Finance by auditing and negotiating corporate financial tools, tax advisory contracts, and audit services. Map, centralize, and rationalize all software subscriptions across departments to eliminate overlap and optimize global license tiers.
- Engineering, IT & Cyber: Work alongside technical and IT teams to negotiate complex software licenses, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), hardware procurement, and global telecommunications contracts.
- Operations & Workspaces: Manage facilities contracts, office leases, health and safety providers, and corporate travel programs across all localized European hubs.
Tender Leadership & Contractual Excellence
- End-to-End International Tenders: Design and execute standard RFP/RFQ processes for global indirect services, ensuring clear evaluation criteria and multi-option worked solutions.
- Direct Contract Ownership: Draft and negotiate commercial schedules, Statements of Work (SOWs), Master Services Agreements (MSAs), and SLA terms directly—ensuring the legal department has a clean framework for final sign-off without creating bottlenecks.
- Risk & Compliance Management: Ensure vendor contract terms protect Field’s data security, intellectual property, and regulatory alignment across our various international jurisdictions.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Experience & Technical Knowledge
- Fast-Paced Procurement Versatility: Minimum 5–7 years of experience in indirect procurement or commercial management within a fast-paced scale-up, startup, or high-growth corporate environment.
- International Track Record: Proven experience managing global spend and supporting stakeholders across multiple international jurisdictions; you are not limited to a UK-only operational mindset.
- Legal/Contractual Fluency: A degree in law, a legal qualification, or an advanced background in contract management is essential. You must feel completely comfortable reviewing and amending contractual language directly.
- Process Grit: Proven experience moving procurement processes forward successfully when dealing with missing information or busy internal stakeholders.
- Analytical Skills: Expert-level capability in analyzing financial spend, spotting hidden supplier margins, and translating data into clear, calculated cost-saving strategies.
Qualifications:
- Degree educated (Bachelor's or Master's in Law, Business, or Finance preferred).
- CIPS/MCIPS or equivalent professional procurement certification is highly desirable.
- Fluent in English; proficiency in German, Spanish, or Italian is a significant advantage.
Benefits
We’re offering a competitive compensation package, including participation in our employee share scheme which rewards all employees for the growth of the business. You’ll be awarded shares when you join, which will vest over four years - as the business grows in size and value, so will your shares!
We value our team’s wellbeing and belonging so we invest approx £5,000 a year on a range of perks, benefits and wellbeing activities, including regular team socials and events.
Other benefits include:
Other benefits include:
- Up to 10% Company wide bonus based on company performance
- Hybrid working (blend of home and office working to suit individual needs)
- £2,000 per year to spend on your professional development
- Private medical cover with Bupa from day one with the option to add family members.
- Company Pension with 8% Contribution
- Enhanced parental leave, for all new parents:
- 6 months fully paid primary carer leave
- 3 months fully paid secondary carer leave
- 10 days fully paid leave for fertility treatment
- Fun co-working office space in Shoreditch, London
- 1 month work from anywhere, for those with a travel bug
- 1 day green leave to do something good for the environment
- Free lunch once a week - a great way to get to know people in the wider team
- Dog-friendly office, feel free to bring your pooch along
- Spill: our mental health benefit allowing every Fielder access to equal and unrestricted therapy and resources
- Regular, optional team socials designed to be inclusive for everyone (not just the pub goers!)
- Birthday carbon offset: a gift from Field to the world to celebrate your birthday
Why join us?
- Genuine impact: You will actually be building and operating the renewable infrastructure we need to reach net zero. This is not a green CSR initiative, but a company that is taking a leading role in building one of the critical solutions to a generational problem.
- Make things happen: We are still an early stage start-up, and you will have significant accountability to make things happen from day 1. You will have a lot of autonomy, will learn quickly, and be given a LOT of room to grow.
- Define a new industry: The energy market is in a paradigm shift right now, evolving at a breathtaking pace, and you will play a leading role in defining how that market evolves and innovates over the next few years.
- Exceptional, diverse team: We are an eclectic team with varied backgrounds. We have experience scaling billion dollar tech start-ups, building energy companies, as well as deep specialisms in the energy markets. You will learn from and work with a bunch of fun, curious, and entrepreneurial people that really want to make an impact.
Diversity & inclusion
Diverse teams make better teams. Field is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment which is as representative as possible of our society. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership pregnancy /maternity, race, nationality, religion or belief, gender, political beliefs and sexual orientation.
About
To reach Net Zero, we need to solve big challenges. Field will fund, build and run the renewable infrastructure we need to tackle these challenges. At Field, we will show that batteries are a totally viable part of our energy infrastructure - now, not in some distant future. And, we have ambitious plans to become the defining new clean energy player in Europe over the next few years, gradually expanding beyond batteries into new asset types.
Skills Required
- 5–7 years of experience in indirect procurement or commercial management within a fast-paced scale-up, startup, or high-growth corporate environment
- Proven experience managing global spend and supporting stakeholders across multiple international jurisdictions
- Law degree, legal qualification, or advanced contract management background
- Ability to review, amend, draft, and negotiate commercial contracts directly
- Experience progressing procurement processes despite incomplete information or busy stakeholders
- Expert-level financial spend analysis and cost-saving strategy development
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Law, Business, or Finance
- CIPS, MCIPS, or equivalent professional procurement certification
- Fluency in English
- Proficiency in German, Spanish, or Italian
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The Company
What We Do
FIELD is an international builder, owner, operator, of renewable infrastructure. Field will fund, build and run the renewable infrastructure we need to tackle these challenges.
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