Accepting applications until: 23 January 2026 Job Description Procurement Lead (12-Month FTC) Your Role: Procurement Lead The Procurement Lead is a newly created role responsible for establishing and leading Global’s procurement capability across the business. Acting as a trusted commercial partner to senior stakeholders, including the CFO, the role will shape how Global sources, governs and extracts value from third-party spend. The role requires a commercially strong, analytically driven leader who can influence stakeholder behaviour, introduce disciplined ways of working and embed a more cost-conscious, value-led approach to procurement across the organisation. As a Procurement Lead at Global, you will: Key Responsibilities Lead strategic sourcing and supplier negotiations across key spend categories, ensuring requirements are challenged, value-led and aligned to business priorities. Own commercial decision-making for third-party spend, including sourcing strategy, contract award recommendations and senior approval submissions. Contract with suppliers in partnership with Legal, ensuring robust commercial terms, risk management and central contract visibility. Deliver initiatives that contribute to the CFO’s cost-savings programme, with clear savings tracking and financial governance. Oversee key supplier relationships and performance where escalation or intervention is required. Provide insight into external market dynamics and supplier risk to inform commercial and strategic decisions. Support budgeting and forecasting through clear visibility of contract commitments, renewals and expected spend. What You’ll Love About This Role Think Big: You’ll have the mandate to build and shape a scalable Procurement capability, influencing how Global sources, governs and creates value from third-party spend. Own It: You’ll operate with clear accountability for commercial outcomes, directly supporting the CFO’s cost and value agenda. Keep it Simple: You’ll have licence to cut through complexity and design pragmatic procurement governance that supports, rather than slows, the business. Better Together: You’ll work closely with senior leaders across Finance, Technology and Operations, positioning Procurement as a trusted partner, not a gatekeeper. What Success Looks Like In your first few months, you’ll have: Established effective working relationships with senior stakeholders, with Procurement routinely engaged in material sourcing and contract decisions. Delivered clear visibility of third-party spend and contract risk, including priority renewals and value opportunities. Generated early, measurable savings or value improvements aligned to the CFO’s cost programme, with tracking and reporting in place. Embedded fit-for-purpose procurement governance that is understood, adopted and used by the business. What You’ll Need 2–6 years’ experience in procurement, gained in industry procurement category management and/or procurement consultancy roles Strong commercial and analytical judgement, with the ability to balance cost, risk and value using data and insight Confidence influencing senior stakeholders and leading commercial negotiations. A collaborative, outcome-focused mindset, comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. Global is home to some of the UK's best-loved radio stations such as Heart, Capital and Classic FM, to name a few, we keep 25.2 million listeners tuned in and entertained each week. And that's just for starters; we’re one of the leading Outdoor advertising companies in the UK, having recently acquired Primesight and Outdoor Plus. With over 35,000 sites covering 95% of the UK population, Global Outdoor packs a punch! In 2018 we launched our awards ceremony, The Global Awards, to celebrate the biggest stars of music, news and entertainment. To enable us to deliver the absolute best product to our audiences, we need the absolute best people across a range of disciplines. From Technology and Programming to Marketing and Commercial. From Digital to Finance to Legal and beyond, it’s the diverse mix of skills and people that make Global what it is. For us, it’s not just about talent, it’s about the right attitude and a personality to match. Simply put, we're passionate about radio, music, media & entertainment - welcome to our world.