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Join our global team to grow your expertise and develop innovative solutions that enable a prosperous and more sustainable society.\nAbout the role\nAt Sulzer, we're not just maintaining equipment, we're keeping critical industries moving. Our Services Division supports customers across a wide range of sectors through a network of service centres that deliver repair, maintenance, engineering and field service solutions.We're now looking for an experienced Procurement Manager to lead procurement activities across our UK Services business. This is a high-impact leadership role where you'll manage a team of Category Buyers and Purchasing Administrators, influence procurement strategy, and help shape the future of our supply chain operations.\nKey Duties:\nLead, develop and mentor a team of Category Buyers and Purchasing Administrators.\nImplement category strategies that support business growth and operational excellence.\nDrive supplier consolidation and standardisation opportunities across the UK service network.\nNegotiate competitive supplier agreements, rebates and commercial terms.\nBuild strategic supplier partnerships that improve service, quality and cost performance.\nAct as a senior escalation point for supplier-related challenges.\nMonitor supplier performance, delivery metrics and procurement KPIs.\nIdentify cost-saving and value-improvement opportunities through benchmarking and market analysis.\nPartner with stakeholders across operations, engineering, finance and leadership teams to support business objectives.\nChampion compliance, procurement governance and continuous improvement initiatives.\nWhat We're Looking For:\nWe're interested in speaking with procurement professionals who combine strong commercial capability with proven leadership experience.\nYou'll ideally bring:\nProcurement experience within engineering, manufacturing, industrial services or a related technical environment.\nProven experience developing, implementing and embedding category-based procurement strategies across multiple spend areas, driving supplier optimisation, cost reduction, risk mitigation and long-term value creation.\nExperience leading and developing procurement teams.\nStrong supplier management and negotiation expertise.\nCommercial acumen with the ability to balance cost, quality and operational requirements.\nExperience managing multiple stakeholders and influencing decision making.\nA proactive and strategic approach to driving change and continuous improvement.\nKnowledge of SAP and/or D365 would be advantageous.\nWhat we offer you\nA remote home based role with travel across regions \nA competitive basic salary\nAnnual personal bonus scheme based on company and personal performance\nCompany Car/Allowance \nPrivate Medical Insurance\n33 days annual leave.\nDefined pension contributions.\nAccess to Medicash helping you cover everyday health costs like dental optical and physiotherapy plus a range of wellbeing perks.\nConfidential support via Employee Assistance Programmes.\nAccess to discounts on shopping entertainment lifestyle plus opportunity to apply for Costco membership.\nDiscounted personal car leasing for you your family and friends.\nLong Service Awards celebrating your commitment.\nContinuous learning opportunities through Sulzer Learning Pathways.\nAs a Silver Award holder of the MoD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, we welcome and support veterans, reservists and Cadet Adult Volunteers with policies for training, camps and deployment, plus a growing internal military network.\nSulzer is an equal opportunity employer. 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