Procurement Manager

About The Role

As Procurement Manager, you'll report to the CFO and lead Indigo's procurement strategy and delivery, combining strategic ownership with hands-on sourcing and commercial negotiations across direct and indirect spend categories. You'll lead and develop the Procurement Team, delivering value, ensuring compliance, strengthening supplier relationships and mitigating supply chain risk.

Working closely with the CFO, leadership team and budget holders, you'll act as a trusted commercial advisor, driving continuous improvement across procurement policies, processes and systems. This hybrid role includes travel and occasional overnight stays, including visits to Indigo HQ.

What You'll DoStrategic Sourcing

• Develop and deliver Indigo's procurement strategy and annual procurement plan, aligned to business objectives and agreed with the CFO.
• Create category plans to forecast sourcing activity, identify negotiation opportunities and align procurement with business demand and market conditions.
• Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing exercises, including RFI/RFP processes, tender evaluations, negotiations and contract awards, focusing on high-value and complex spend categories.
• Lead cross-functional sourcing projects from analysis through to contract mobilisation.
• Analyse spend data and market intelligence to identify savings and value-creation opportunities.
• Prepare and present business cases, recommendations and sourcing outcomes to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Ensure sourcing decisions consider total cost of ownership, risk, quality, supply base optimisation, sustainability and innovation.
• Own the procurement value tracker, reporting savings, cost avoidance and commercial benefits.

Team Leadership

• Manage and develop the Procurement Team, setting objectives and allocating sourcing activity.
• Review and approve sourcing recommendations and contract awards in line with Indigo's Delegation of Authority policy.
• Act as the escalation point for commercial, supplier and stakeholder issues.

Supplier Relationship Management

• Build and maintain strategic supplier relationships, personally managing key suppliers to maximise value and performance.
• Monitor supplier performance against KPIs, SLAs and contractual commitments, conducting regular reviews to drive improvement and innovation.
• Manage supply chain risks, including continuity of supply, supplier financial stability, ethical considerations and ESG risks.
• Build productive partnerships that position Indigo as a customer of choice.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a commercial advisor to the CFO, leadership team and budget holders, aligning procurement activity with business needs.
• Engage stakeholders throughout sourcing projects to support effective decision-making and buy-in.
• Provide guidance on procurement best practice, compliance and supplier management.

Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Lead service level agreement negotiations with relevant Indigo teams and supply contract negotiations with support from Indigo Legal.
• Own and maintain procurement policies, procedures and templates, ensuring compliance with internal requirements, external regulations and ethical standards.
• Report procurement KPIs, including savings delivered, spend under management and policy compliance.
• Drive adoption of e-procurement systems, digital tools and analytics, alongside continuous process improvement.
• Uphold the CIPS Code of Conduct, promoting ethical practices and compliance with laws and regulations.
• Support the development of ethical procurement capability, including CIPS ethical qualifications sponsored by Indigo.

About You

• Ability to develop and deliver procurement strategies and plans aligned with business objectives.
• Strong negotiation skills and a passion for achieving commercial value.
• Experience managing and negotiating direct and indirect spend, including services and subcontracting, ideally within telecommunications or IT engineering.
• Proven track record of delivering savings and value through end-to-end strategic sourcing.
• Experience in contract management, supplier relationship management and supply chain risk management.
• Experience managing and developing procurement professionals.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, able to engage stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership.
• Customer-focused and collaborative, building effective relationships with stakeholders and suppliers.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, with the ability to analyse and present data.
• Self-motivated, proactive and adaptable, with the drive to identify opportunities, embrace change and add value.
• Full driving licence and willingness to travel for business.
• MCIPS qualification or equivalent professional qualification.

Desirable

• Professional chartership.
• Experience implementing or developing e-procurement systems.

Procurement Professional Standards

You'll uphold the CIPS Code of Conduct by maintaining integrity in business relationships, promoting ethical practices, protecting the profession's reputation and ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations. Indigo will sponsor Procurement Team members in achieving their CIPS ethical qualification.

The role aligns with the Managing level of the CIPS Global Standard for Procurement and Supply, combining hands-on delivery with strategic leadership of procurement activity and team development.

About Indigo

Indigo is a strategic operational partner for critical digital infrastructure. We help customers design, deploy, support and scale the infrastructure their businesses rely on, giving them greater control, consistency and confidence. Our teams work across subsea, terrestrial, wireless, data centre and NOC environments, bringing specialist expertise, 24/7 support, field services and managed services together under one accountable model.

Being part of Indigo means working in a business where operational excellence, customer trust and doing things properly matter. We support customers in complex, performance-critical environments, helping them reduce risk, protect performance and deliver with confidence. Our people are central to that mission, bringing the skill, responsiveness and accountability needed to support the next generation of digital infrastructure. As an Investors in People Gold accredited employer, we're committed to investing in our people's growth and development.

Skills

Skills - NOC, Skills - Subsea, Skills - Data Centre, Skills - Wireless