The Procurement function has a group-wide remit and forms part of the Global Finance team. It is responsible for delivering a transparent and effective procurement approach across the FT Group, ensuring integrity and fairness in supplier selection, robust commercial negotiations, and strong governance and supplier management practices.
The implementation of the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) lifecycle has created significant opportunities for Procurement to drive greater visibility of spend, improved data quality and more informed decision-making across the business. This role will contribute to the next phase of Procurement’s evolution by helping leverage the FT Group’s collective buying power through coordinated sourcing strategies, preferred supplier frameworks and more effective group-wide commercial negotiations.
Based in London, the Procurement Manager will play a key role in delivering procurement activity across priority business areas including the Commercial Client Group (CCG), Product & Technology (P&T), and Reader Revenue Group (RRG).
This role has a strong focus on marketing and professional services procurement, requiring experience sourcing and managing agencies and consultancy providers across areas such as creative, media, social media and digital marketing. Experience supporting procurement activity for events-related spend, including venues, hotels, AV and production services, would also be advantageous.
The successful candidate will combine strong sourcing and commercial capability with excellent stakeholder engagement skills, partnering with senior stakeholders across the business to deliver commercially robust and strategically aligned procurement outcomes.
We are looking for someone who is commercially curious, forward-thinking and comfortable using technology and AI-enabled tools to improve procurement efficiency, market analysis, sourcing activity and contract management processes.