Procurement Lead (12-Month FTC)
Your Role: Procurement Lead
The Procurement Lead is a newly created role responsible for establishing and leading Global’s procurement capability across the business. Acting as a trusted commercial partner to senior stakeholders, including the CFO, the role will shape how Global sources, governs and extracts value from third-party spend.
The role requires a commercially strong, analytically driven leader who can influence stakeholder behaviour, introduce disciplined ways of working and embed a more cost-conscious, value-led approach to procurement across the organisation.
As a Procurement Lead at Global, you will:
Key Responsibilities
- Lead strategic sourcing and supplier negotiations across key spend categories, ensuring requirements are challenged, value-led and aligned to business priorities.
- Own commercial decision-making for third-party spend, including sourcing strategy, contract award recommendations and senior approval submissions.
- Contract with suppliers in partnership with Legal, ensuring robust commercial terms, risk management and central contract visibility.
- Deliver initiatives that contribute to the CFO’s cost-savings programme, with clear savings tracking and financial governance.
- Oversee key supplier relationships and performance where escalation or intervention is required.
- Provide insight into external market dynamics and supplier risk to inform commercial and strategic decisions.
- Support budgeting and forecasting through clear visibility of contract commitments, renewals and expected spend.
What You’ll Love About This Role
- Think Big: You’ll have the mandate to build and shape a scalable Procurement capability, influencing how Global sources, governs and creates value from third-party spend.
- Own It: You’ll operate with clear accountability for commercial outcomes, directly supporting the CFO’s cost and value agenda.
- Keep it Simple: You’ll have licence to cut through complexity and design pragmatic procurement governance that supports, rather than slows, the business.
- Better Together: You’ll work closely with senior leaders across Finance, Technology and Operations, positioning Procurement as a trusted partner, not a gatekeeper.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
- Established effective working relationships with senior stakeholders, with Procurement routinely engaged in material sourcing and contract decisions.
- Delivered clear visibility of third-party spend and contract risk, including priority renewals and value opportunities.
- Generated early, measurable savings or value improvements aligned to the CFO’s cost programme, with tracking and reporting in place.
- Embedded fit-for-purpose procurement governance that is understood, adopted and used by the business.
What You’ll Need
- 2–6 years’ experience in procurement, gained in industry procurement category management and/or procurement consultancy roles
- Strong commercial and analytical judgement, with the ability to balance cost, risk and value using data and insight
- Confidence influencing senior stakeholders and leading commercial negotiations.
- A collaborative, outcome-focused mindset, comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
What We Do
The UK and Europe’s largest Radio & Outdoor company, Global is home to respected, national market-leading media brands broadcasting across the UK on DAB & FM and around the world on Global Player, including Heart, Capital, LBC, Capital XTRA, Capital Dance, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X and Gold.
Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers.
Global is also one of the leading Outdoor companies in both the UK & Europe, with over 253,000 sites reaching 95% of the UK population. Global’s extensive and diverse outdoor portfolio encompasses Transport for London’s Underground network, almost all major UK airports including Gatwick, the UK’s largest portfolio of roadside posters and premium digital screens in prime locations, as well as the UK’s largest network of buses including all major cities.
On-air, on Global Player and with our outdoor platforms combined, Global reaches 51 million individuals across the UK every week, including 26.3 million on the radio alone.
