A2Dominion Group
Director of Strategic Procurement
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Director of Strategic Procurement
Location: Ealing / Hybrid (Some office attendance required - 1 day a week on avg.)
Salary: £Competitive
Contract type: Permanent – Full Time (35 hours per week, Monday to Friday)
DBS Level: Basic
About the Role
Lead strategic procurement that delivers commercial value, assurance, and measurable business outcomes.
Are you an experienced procurement leader with a proven track record of delivering commercial value, leading transformational change, and influencing at Executive level? Do you thrive in complex organisations where you can shape strategy, build high-performing teams, and drive procurement excellence? If so, this could be the opportunity for you.
Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, we’re looking for a Director of Strategic Procurement to lead our procurement function and provide senior strategic oversight across a significant organisational spend portfolio. You’ll be responsible for ensuring procurement activity delivers tangible outcomes, including value for money, regulatory compliance, supplier performance, commercial assurance, social value, and measurable efficiencies across the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver the organisation’s procurement strategy, ensuring clear alignment with corporate objectives, financial plans, and business priorities.
- Report procurement performance, risks, opportunities, and outcomes to senior leadership, providing clear insight and tangible conclusions from procurement activity.
- Lead the transformation of the procurement function, embedding best practice, robust governance, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee the delivery of strategic sourcing and procurement activity across a diverse portfolio including property, repairs, IT, professional services, and corporate spend.
- Drive commercial value through category management, cost optimisation, supplier performance, and effective contract management.
- Lead high-value, complex procurement exercises and negotiate major contracts and frameworks.
- Establish and embed Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) frameworks, ensuring suppliers deliver against agreed performance measures.
- Ensure procurement activity complies with the Procurement Act 2023, internal governance requirements, and audit standards.
- Provide strategic commercial advice to Executive and senior leaders, influencing organisational decision-making.
- Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing procurement team, driving a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
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More about you
- Degree educated (or equivalent experience) with MCIPS/CIPS qualification.
- Significant senior procurement leadership experience, ideally at Head of or Director level.
- Proven experience delivering procurement transformation programmes within complex organisations.
- Strong knowledge of UK public procurement legislation, including the Procurement Act 2023.
- Demonstrable experience managing high-value, complex procurement and contract portfolios.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to deliver financial savings while maintaining quality and value.
- Experience developing procurement strategies, category management approaches, and supplier relationship frameworks.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to operate confidently at Executive and Board level.
- Proven leadership experience with a track record of developing high-performing procurement teams.
- Experience within housing, local government, the NHS, or another regulated environment would be highly desirable.
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About us
At A2Dominion, we’re more than a housing provider. We’re a not-for-profit organisation with a clear social purpose: to create homes and communities people love to live in. With over 38,000 homes across London and the South East, we reinvest our profits into building more affordable homes and delivering services that make a real difference. We’re a G15 housing association with a strong social purpose.
Choosing us is easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
- 30 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working
Inclusion at A2Dominion
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the process - just contact our Resourcing Team at resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk.
We know some people may hesitate to apply unless they meet every requirement. If that’s you, we’d still encourage you to apply - or get in touch with us to talk it through.
At A2Dominion, we value diversity, embrace flexibility, and are a family-friendly employer. Everyone belongs here. Join us and help make a lasting difference in the lives of our customers.
This vacancy is being managed by Danny Banks - danny.banks@a2dominion.co.uk. The role closes on 31st July 2026. We reserve the right to close early upon appointment of the right candidate.
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