Head of Procurement

Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.  As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results. Role:  Head of Procurement Location:  London, England, United Kingdom (2-3 days a week from our London offices)   About the role:  Reporting into the Group Chief Finance Officer and with dotted line into the Group’s Chief Procurement Officer, this role is responsible for driving a seamless procurement lifecycle through buying goods and services for the company and across our wider group of companies, globally. Bringing a technology first mentality, driving transformational change, proactively identifying needs and developing specifications, to negotiating cost effective contracts, managing key suppliers, and ensuring service delivery exceeds business goals and objectives.   Working closely with the client CPO, to create and deliver group wide spend synergies and opportunities, the successful candidate will be able to think strategically, can build brilliant stakeholder relationships naturally, and has a genuine passion for utilising technology to drive benefit to our business through automation.  Key categories of spend in scope will be the management of Technology (including but not limited to software/SaaS/hardware) consultancy services, HR tech and services and various corporate services.   This is both an exciting and rewarding opportunity in a newly formed group-wide Global Procurement department. If you thrive in a build-focused environment, are passionate about delivering cost-effective, high-value add and quality solutions, then we would love to hear from you.  What you will be doing:  To build, develop and own an opportunity pipeline to deliver short, mid, and long-term value adding initiatives for IIG and leveraging our buying power across the wider Brandtech Group companies.  Playing a central role in driving the launch of the recently acquired Procurement technology (Omnea) for IIG is a key deliverable for this role.   Working closely with both exec and senior operational leads to create and implement effective procurement strategies that align with the organisation’s overall goals and objectives.  Through technology, proactively leveraging data insights, benchmarks, and metrics to innovate and drive both new and ongoing cost saving opportunities, aligned to business growth ambitions for the group.  Ad...