We are looking for a commercially strong and stakeholder-focused Senior Procurement Manager, Corporate Services to lead sourcing and supplier management across key corporate services categories, including HR services, professional services, legal, consulting, recruitment and broader business support spend.
This Senior Manager role is critical in ensuring the organisation has access to high-quality external partners while maintaining cost discipline, strong governance, service performance, and compliance. The role will support corporate functions by shaping demand, improving supplier models, and delivering commercially effective sourcing outcomes.
You will operate as a hands-on category leader, combining strategic category planning with strong execution across sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier performance, and risk management.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
Strategic Impact
Develop and execute category strategies across assigned corporate services spend areas, aligned to business priorities and functional requirements.
Partner with HR, Finance, Legal and business leaders to understand demand, shape requirements, and identify opportunities to improve value and service delivery.
Monitor market trends across consulting, professional services, workforce solutions, recruitment, legal services, outsourcing, and business support categories.
Drive change management and support procurement transformation initiatives, including process improvement, supplier governance, digitalisation, and operating model improvements.
Sourcing & Category Delivery
Lead sourcing activities across corporate services categories, including consulting, HR services, recruitment, legal, outsourcing, and business operations.
Design and implement supplier panels, preferred supplier arrangements, rate cards, service frameworks, and commercial models that improve value and governance.
Deliver commercial value through cost benchmarking, demand management, negotiation, supplier consolidation, and improved buying channels.
Build robust sourcing recommendations supported by market insight, stakeholder input, commercial analysis, risk assessment, and service requirements.
Ensure sourcing activity is executed with pace, discipline, and clear alignment to business priorities.
Stakeholder & Supplier Leadership
Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across HR, Finance, Legal and business functions.
Act as a commercial advisor, helping stakeholders navigate supplier options, commercial trade-offs, risk considerations, and sourcing decisions.
Manage supplier relationships across key corporate services categories, ensuring performance, value delivery, compliance, and continuous improvement.
Lead resolution of complex commercial, contractual, supplier performance, and service quality issues.
Commercial & Operational Excellence
Drive efficiencies through supplier consolidation, standardised frameworks, improved demand planning, and clearer governance over services spend.
Embed data-led decision-making through spend analysis, benchmarking, rate card reviews, contract compliance, and value tracking.
Strengthen financial controls, contract management, approval discipline, and audit readiness across assigned categories.
Support the adoption of procurement tools, reporting, templates, and repeatable processes to improve efficiency and transparency.
Risk & Compliance
Ensure responsible sourcing across labour-intensive, advisory, professional, recruitment, and outsourced services.
Work with Legal, HR, Finance, Risk, and Compliance teams to manage contractual, regulatory, reputational, operational, and labour-related risks.
Ensure supplier arrangements meet relevant policy, ethical, data protection, confidentiality, and compliance requirements.
Maintain strong governance over supplier selection, contract terms, service delivery, and performance management.
Team & Capability Building
Provide guidance and support to procurement colleagues involved in corporate services sourcing or supplier management activity.
Share category insight, sourcing approaches, negotiation strategies, and best practice across the wider procurement team.
Contribute to a culture of accountability, transparency, collaboration, continuous improvement, and ethical conduct.
Significant experience in indirect procurement, with strong exposure to corporate services, professional services, HR services, recruitment, legal, outsourcing, or managed services.
Strong commercial acumen with proven experience in sourcing strategy, negotiation, supplier frameworks, contract structuring, cost optimisation, and supplier management.
Ability to influence senior stakeholders across corporate functions and balance commercial outcomes with service quality, risk, and compliance.
Strong analytical capability, including spend analysis, benchmarking, rate card assessment, supplier performance review, and business case development.
Experience managing complex supplier ecosystems and service-based categories in a global or matrixed organisation
Confident operating at pace in a changing environment, with the ability to manage ambiguity and competing stakeholder requirements.
Strategic and operational excellence:translates strategy into action, ensuring rigour, consistency, and execution throughout the source-to-contract cycle and supplier engagement.
Dyson monitors the market to ensure competitive salaries and bonuses. Beyond that, you’ll enjoy a transport allowance and comprehensive medical care and insurance. But financial benefits are just the start of a Dyson career. Professional growth, leadership development and new opportunities abound, driven by regular reviews and dynamic workshops. And with a vibrant culture, the latest devices and a relaxed dress code reflecting our engineering spirit, it’s an exciting team environment geared to fuelling and realising ambition.
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Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
Dyson solves real-world problems and creates better products through the application of engineering, science, design and creativity. It is a family-owned, global technology company, founded by Sir James Dyson who remains at the helm alongside his son Jake.
Since inventing the first cyclonic bagless vacuum cleaner, the DC01, Dyson has consistently invested in research and development to improve its products and technologies radically. Dyson offers products across a growing range of areas: floorcare, air purification, robotics, haircare including formulations, lighting, hand drying, and most recently audio. Dyson continues to expand into new areas.
Today, Dyson sells products in more than 80 markets, has 450 Dyson stores worldwide and is available in all major technology and beauty retailers. Dyson has global headquarters in Singapore and major technology campuses in Singapore, the UK, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Its global team of engineers, scientists and software developers are focused on developing technology-enabled products which work better and which people love to use. Key areas of focus have included high-speed electric digital motors, sensing and vision systems, robotics, machine learning and aerodynamics.
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