Job type
TemporaryLocation
CambridgeWorking Pattern
Full-timeSpecialism
ProcurementIndustry
PharmaceuticalsPay
Daily RateClosing date
31 Oct 2025
AZ currently require an interim Procurement Manager within professional services.
Title: Procurement Manager Professional Services
Duration: 12 months
Location: Hybrid (1 day per week) Cambridge/ Luton/ Macclesfield
Outside IR35
Introduction to role
As Procurement Manager Professional Services – Consultancy within our Global Professional Sevices Procurement team, you’ll lead strategy and execution for a high-profile category with an annual spend of approximately $130M. You’ll have end-to-end accountability for defining and deploying global strategies across multiple Consultancy subcategories—including Strategic Consulting, Program Implementation, Advisory Consulting, Scientific Consulting, and SHE Consulting—impacting every Business Unit and geography. This role offers extensive exposure to senior leaders (SET and PLT), frequent engagement with enterprise stakeholders, and close collaboration with colleagues in Procurement across all regions.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership: Define and deliver a comprehensive, fully integrated global category strategy for Consultancy, ensuring alignment to AstraZeneca’s overarching business needs.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain robust relationships with internal customers and suppliers (SET/SET-1/SVP level), driving strategies that support current and future priorities across the organisation.
- Implementation & Delivery: Lead the execution of category plans in partnership with Regional Procurement teams, maximising business value and meeting both global and local requirements.
- Supplier Relationship Management: Manage key consultancy partnerships and oversee complex, high-value, and high-risk negotiations with market-leading global firms, implementing best-in-class SRM practices.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with the Global Source to Contract Excellence (GSCE) team in Warsaw, shaping procurement approaches that deliver business objectives.
- Analytical Expertise:
Generate actionable insights that inform category strategy, drive cost optimization, and unlock new value for AstraZeneca
Essential Skills & Experience
- Influence & Engagement: Proven track record influencing senior stakeholders at c suite level in demanding global settings
- Experience in procuring Consultancy services
- Contract Negotiation: Demonstrated success negotiating high-value, high-risk agreements with market-leading global suppliers
- Commercial Expertise: Skilled in establishing strong partner-based relationships, driving innovation, implementing robust performance management processes, and balancing risk in ambiguous scenarios
- Project Leadership: Experience leading large, complex global initiatives. Exceptional project and change management, with the confidence to lead people through transformation
- Analytical & Communication Skills: Strong analytical mindset; outstanding communication and influencing capabilities
- Adaptability: Proven ability to thrive in high-risk and ambiguous environments
- Education: Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Consultancy Sector Insight: Experience partnering with top-tier global consultancy firms
- Broader cross-category experience
within Professional Services, IT Services and/or HR Services that align or could impact future consultancy services
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
At AstraZeneca, you'll find an international team that celebrates diversity of experience, skills, and ways of working. Whether you're a specialist or transitioning industries, we embrace sharing and learning together. Our adaptable, agile, and curious environment encourages stepping outside comfort zones in pursuit of continuous improvement. With problem-solvers across the enterprise, it takes business acumen to thrive here. Our strategic and commercial mindset allows us to react rapidly to changing business requirements. Join us as we transform lives through our transformative medicines across all therapy areas.
What you need to do now
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