Divisional Head of Procurement

About The Role

Divisional Head of Procurement

Location: Home working

Contract: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Package:

About the Role

As Divisional Head of Procurement , you will play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining strategic relationships across our key contracts. You will lead the end‑to‑end procurement lifecycle — from scoping and clarifying requirements, through to negotiation, performance monitoring and, where necessary, contract exit.

You will be responsible for managing and mitigating supply chain risks, ensuring that value for money is achieved and demonstrable through the application of your extensive procurement expertise.

In this role, you will establish and maintain procurement strategies, standards, processes and best practices that ensure full compliance with relevant legislation, regulatory obligations and information security requirements.

You will also lead, support and develop your team, ensuring that robust processes are followed and providing opportunities for professional growth and progression.

What You’ll do:

• Lead your team to deliver agreed objectives, ensuring high performance and accountability.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to support the development of the wider QA function and direct team members.
• Drive added value across the supply chain and QA function by applying strong procurement expertise and championing best practice.
• Offer specialist advice and insight to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Resolve queries and complex issues by collaborating with colleagues across the business to fully understand root causes.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, suppliers and key stakeholders through a high volume of calls, meetings and detailed commercial discussions, proactively managing risks, resolving complex issues, driving supplier performance and delivering positive business outcomes
• Analyse and interpret sales data to identify and pursue strategic QA conversion opportunities.
• Identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Work closely with the Social Value Senior Compliance Manager to ensure contractual KPIs are met and enhanced where required.

About Us

Wellbeing & benefits

Your wellbeing matters to us. That’s why we offer benefits designed to help you recharge and thrive, including:

• 27 days Annual Leave (4 days used for the festive closure) plus Bank Holidays
• Holiday Buying scheme
• Medicash plan, Wellhub, Cycle to Work scheme
• Private Medical Insurance at corporate rates
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Discounts Benefit Hub
• 3 Development days
• 2 Charity days per year
• Pension Scheme

Personal growth

Learning and opportunity is at the core of what we do - and that applies to you too!

You’ll have the unique opportunity to develop your skills on our QA authored courses in the latest tech (you’ll get 3 training days/year to do this). You can also delve deep into our world-class digital learning content on a variety of tech and business topics. Orperhaps you’d like to enrol on a Degree or Masters programme to enhance your skillset or learn new things.

Our people

As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee that all applicants with a disability who meet the role criteria will progress to the next stage of the process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.

A little about QA

At QA, we believe the future belongs to organisations that are able to learn, master and apply new skills at pace and scale. As the largest tech training company in the UK, we partner with 96% of the FTSE and most of the Fortune 500. We have served over 4,000 customers and 1+ million learners in the last 3 years.

Our Mission

We teach the critical AI, technology, digital and Human skills needed to transform and succeed in a changing world.We do this through tailored learning programmes that connect learning across an organisation, create continuity for learners, and feature collaborative, cohort-based modalities to apply skills at pace and at scale. Our unique end-to-end learning solutions draw from deep expertise across Apprenticeships, Instructor-led training, Self-paced Learning and Blended Learning.

You can find out more about us at https://www.qa.com/about/careers/