Senior Procurement Manager - Technology

Senior Procurement Manager – Digital & Technology (Public Sector)

Location: London | Contract: 6 months | Start: Mid-June 2026 (approx.)

We’re supporting a major public sector organisation to appoint a Senior Procurement Manager (Digital & Technology) to lead high-value, complex sourcing activity that underpins critical digital delivery.

This role will provide leadership across a digital/technology commercial category, managing a team of procurement and commercial professionals and delivering compliant, innovative procurement outcomes across software, digital delivery and emerging technologies.

You will:

• Lead a team of commercial/procurement professionals, setting direction, priorities and performance expectations.
• Own and manage a sourcing pipeline, balancing delivery and workload allocation across the team.
• Deliver end-to-end procurements across software, digital delivery, and emerging technology markets.
• Design and implement commercial strategies aligned to agile and product-based delivery approaches.
• Run a range of sourcing routes including framework call-offs (e.g., CCS frameworks such as G-Cloud/DOS) and open-market procurements under the Procurement Act 2023.
• Provide clear commercial advice to senior stakeholders on sourcing options, risk, governance and delivery trade-offs.
• Strengthen commercial capability across digital and technology procurement by embedding best practice, guidance and standards.

Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Significant experience delivering public sector digital and technology procurements, end-to-end.
• Proven track record of managing complex, high-value sourcing activity with robust governance and audit trails.
• Strong knowledge of PCR 2015 and/or the Procurement Act 2023 and associated governance requirements.
• Practical experience using CCS frameworks (e.g., G-Cloud, DOS) and navigating marketplace engagement effectively.
• Confident leader with demonstrable experience building, developing and motivating teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior digital, technology, finance and delivery leads.

Desirable:

• Experience with software licensing and SaaS commercial models.
• Exposure to AI, automation, data & analytics or other emerging technology procurements.
• Experience scaling digital pilots into wider enterprise solutions.
• MCIPS (or equivalent).

Outcomes / measures of success

• High-quality delivery of complex procurements to time, cost and quality.
• Clear value for money and innovation outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder satisfaction and engagement.
• Effective management of commercial risk, compliance and assurance.
• Demonstrable uplift in digital procurement capability across the function.

Interested?

Apply with your CV or get in touch for a confidential discussion about scope, delivery pipeline and team structure.