Senior Procurement Manager
About Colt Data Centre Services
Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) has over 20 years’ experience in designing, building and operating energy-efficient, reliable data centres – hosting significant financial, media, corporate and cloud wholesale providers across the world.
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We endeavour to take a customer-led approach across our operations, striving to serve our customers with a seamless experience no matter what facility or region they are in.
Finding the right solutions for our customers starts with finding the right people for Colt DCS. We believe in creating a healthy, learning environment for our employees to flourish.
Our vision: to be the most customer-centric data centre provider.
Role Summary
As Senior Procurement Manager, you will lead a small team taking accountability for the full scope of our Procurement within Europe. This is a broad spectrum, covering multiple categories of spend and functional workstreams, spanning a full variety of technical and non-technical disciplines.
In doing so, you will bring a focus on commercial rigour, risk mitigation, cost optimisation and a full governance programme. This will include full compliance with local law, best business practices for the Region and alignment to DCS Procurement Policy and centrally mandated governance requirements.
We are a growing business operating in a rapidly growing and evolving market place.
All of this provides you with a real opportunity to achieve and show measurable impact, not least through shaping and implementing mature procurement practices, developing pipelines of activity and really addressing the Procurement window. You'll also benefit from significant variety, not only through the range of spend categories we have, but also through various project activity.
To be successful, you'll naturally call on your significant Procurement background alongside your ability to understand and enable the achievement of overall business objectives. In addition, your analytical capability and strong attention to detail will be key and you'll combine these with your adept communication skills to present and influence at all levels of our business.
Given the growth of our business and the rapidly changing marketplace, you'll also be agile and demonstrate an ability to work at pace.
What we offer
Colt DCS is a growing business that is investing in its people.
We offer skill development, learning pathways and accreditation to help our people perform at their best, regardless of role and location.
In addition to offering competitive salaries and incentive plans, a range of benefits and local rewards packages are offered to staff. Colt DCS recognises and is committed to the importance of a work-life balance.
All of this is substantiated by our Great Place to Work UK Accreditation.