Job Description

Sourcing Manager

Are you an experienced procurement professional seeking to shape procurement strategy and deliver commercial value across a diverse portfolio of projects and contracts? Do you excel at building strong stakeholder relationships, leading sourcing initiatives, and ensuring compliance within a regulated environment? We are seeking a Sourcing Manager to drive strategic sourcing and commercial activity, securing best-value outcomes, managing risk, and supporting the business in achieving its operational and financial objectives.

Your Role

You will support Peel Ports’ operations by delivery a sustainable, resilient and value-adding supply chain. Reporting to the Senior Sourcing Manager, the role will focus on supplier sourcing including the delivery of complex regulated procurement processes.

You will manage competing priorities, provide expert commercial guidance, identify and mitigate procurement risks, and support stakeholders throughout the sourcing lifecycle. Working collaboratively with colleagues across the business and wider Procurement team, you will deliver end to end sourcing activity to ensuring a consistent, efficient and value-adding service. You will manage often complex procurements for goods, services and works contracts, frameworks and dynamic markets, across both CAPEX and OPEX categories securing best-value outcomes while maintaining the highest standards of commercial compliance.

What you'll bring

You will bring strong knowledge and experience of regulated procurement, including the management of complex and contentious procurement matters. You will be confident operating within procurement policies and governance frameworks, with experience of drafting and negotiating a range of supplier contracts and industry-standard agreements. A collaborative team player, you will have a proven track record of contributing to high-performing teams and building effective stakeholder relationships, using your influencing skills to deliver successful business outcomes.

Who are we?

Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator. We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers. Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040. Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

What we can offer you

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers. Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

• 27 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays)
• Up to 10% Matched Contribution Pension
• Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, Critical Illness insurance, Gym Membership Scheme, Retail Vouchers, plus more!
• Commitment to learning and personal development – Last year we supported over 50,000 hours of training and personal development!
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our Employee Assistance Programme when required

If you believe you have the skills and experience we are seeking and you want to join a thriving and ambitious place to work, we’d really like to hear from you!