Location: Leicester
Employment type: Full Time
Working Hours: Monday to Friday
We believe in looking after our people, and it shows. When you join Ipsum, you’re not just taking a job — you’re starting a career with real support behind it.
As a Procurement Manager, you will play a key role in elevating Ipsum’s Water procurement standards and supporting the business through an exciting period of growth. This strategic role offers exposure to a wide range of procurement activities—from aligning business needs with supplier capabilities, to market evaluation, benchmarking, supplier negotiations and leading group‑wide initiatives.
Reporting to the Head of Procurement, you will collaborate closely to strengthen the procurement function, ensuring all processes, decisions and procurement strategies align with the wider organisational direction. This is a fantastic opportunity to influence how procurement supports operational excellence, commercial performance and sustainable growth across the business.
You are someone who is committed to delivering strategic value and service excellence, with the confidence to challenge and influence stakeholders to ensure alignment with procurement strategy. Known as a trusted advisor, you bring clear guidance on procurement processes, best practice and compliance, and you thrive in fast‑paced, high‑growth environments. You are proactive, adaptable and collaborative, with a strong desire to streamline processes, drive innovation and make data‑driven decisions. Your analytical mindset allows you to navigate complex procurement situations, interpret market insight and legal considerations, and confidently negotiate commercial positions.
You’ll bring extensive procurement experience within a multi‑site or group environment, along with a strong understanding of Supplier Relationship Management, governance, compliance and risk. Skilled in benchmarking, negotiation and supplier management, you have a proven record of delivering cost savings and shaping procurement outcomes. You build strong stakeholder relationships, lead continuous improvement initiatives and embed consistent, standardised processes. Proficient in Microsoft Office, you also hold a relevant degree in procurement, commercial, finance or supply chain—or equivalent experience—and have the strategic capability needed to support long‑term procurement goals.
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At Ipsum, we provide specialist engineering services across the UK’s regulated water and energy companies and private sector businesses.
We work with our customers to maintain, optimise and develop their above and below ground assets to ensure security and resilience, and with our smart systems and ways of working, we ensure we deliver on time, on budget and safely.
At Ipsum, we develop long-term working relationships with our customers by providing essential utility services on both public and private networks. We have many long-term contracts and framework arrangements in place which are built upon great customer service, safe working practices and the ability to flex and deploy specialist skillsets at short notice.
The growth of Ipsum has been built upon our people and our ability to meet the demanding and ever-changing needs of our customers. The UK utility sector is evolving and expanding to meet increasing customer demand, regulatory-driven outcomes and to exploit new innovative technologies, at Ipsum we will continue to grow in this sector by being a reliable, flexible and agile service partner that helps customers meet these new challenges.
As we know, utility service provision is not a 9 to 5 business, our customers don’t switch off their networks or assets at night, or at the weekends, or on holidays, or when things are quiet. They need them to work round the clock – and we at Ipsum are right beside them 24/7 to make sure they do.
We pride ourselves in providing specialist scheduled maintenance services, being able to respond to an individual call-out or mobilise onto a major upgrade project and that our customers can rely on Ipsum 24/7/365.
