Commercial Procurement Lead

  • Ref:
    104947
  • Location:
    Gibraltar
  • Employment:
    Full time

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Mitie is looking for an experienced Commercial Procurement Manager to lead procurement, tendering and supply chain activity across our Overseas Prime Contract in Gibraltar.
 
This is a high profile role offering the opportunity to shape procurement strategy, strengthen governance, improve supplier performance and support the delivery of critical infrastructure, engineering and facilities management services within a complex defence environment.
 
Working closely with senior operational, commercial and client stakeholders, you will provide procurement leadership that ensures value, compliance, risk management and operational delivery remain at the centre of every procurement decision. 
 
What You'll Be Doing
 
 
As Commercial Procurement Manager, you will:
  • Lead procurement and tendering activity across the Gibraltar contract.
  • Drive procurement governance, assurance and supplier compliance.
  • Manage competitive tender processes, RFQs and supplier selection exercises.
  • Develop and maintain strategic supplier relationships.
  • Oversee supplier onboarding and preferred supplier management.
  • Monitor supplier performance against cost, quality and service objectives.
  • Support commercial colleagues with procurement insight and market intelligence.
  • Manage purchase order controls, procurement reporting and supplier payment processes.
  • Support the procurement of construction, engineering and facilities management works.
  • Work alongside operational teams to define requirements, package work and challenge specifications where appropriate.
  • Lead and develop the procurement team whilst promoting best practice across the contract.
  • Build effective relationships with client representatives, suppliers and internal stakeholders

About You

We're looking for a commercially minded procurement professional who combines strategic thinking with hands on delivery.
 
You'll ideally have:
  • Significant experience in procurement, sourcing, supply chain or subcontract management.
  • Experience leading tendering and competitive procurement processes.
  • Strong supplier relationship and performance management capability.
  • Experience within construction, engineering, infrastructure, hard FM, defence or similarly regulated environments.
  • The ability to influence stakeholders and drive procurement best practice.
  • Experience managing procurement governance, controls and compliance.
  • Strong commercial awareness and risk-management capability.
  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

Desirable Experience

  • CIPS qualification or membership.
  • NEC contract awareness.
  • Experience within defence, public sector or critical infrastructure environments.
  • Experience of supplier onboarding, assurance and supply chain governance.
  • Knowledge of procurement systems such as Coupa.
  • Spanish language skills.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a strategically important procurement function supporting defence operations in Gibraltar.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.

 
 

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HMS Naval Base - Gibraltar
HMS Naval Base, Central Office Building, Gibraltar, BF1 2AR
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