Are you an experienced procurement or commercial professional looking for your next challenge? A leading organisation within the facilities management and property services sector is seeking a Senior Partner Manager to join its growing commercial team.
This is a home-based role, with travel across England, offering the opportunity to shape supplier strategy, strengthen commercial partnerships and drive operational performance across a complex national portfolio. If you have a strong background in services procurement and supplier relationship management, this could be the ideal next step in your career.
The Role As the Senior Partner Manager, you’ll:
- Manage the end-to-end relationship with strategic service providers, ensuring suppliers are effectively sourced, onboarded, developed and managed.
- Develop strong partnerships with suppliers, operational teams and commercial stakeholders to deliver outstanding service performance.
- Oversee supplier performance against contractual KPIs, SLAs and quality standards, implementing improvement plans where required.
- Lead supplier governance activities, ensuring compliance with commercial agreements and contract obligations.
- Support procurement strategies, supplier sourcing activities, tender evaluations and contract negotiations.
- Drive commercial performance by identifying efficiencies, reducing risk and delivering value for money across the supply chain.
- Contribute to supplier framework development, contract management processes and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Analyse supplier performance data and provide commercial insight to support informed business decisions.
- Work closely with sustainability and operational teams to improve service delivery and support wider environmental objectives.
- Travel across the UK to build strong supplier relationships and support a nationally distributed contract portfolio.
You To be successful in the role of Senior Partner Manager, you’ll bring:
- Proven experience in services procurement, commercial management or supplier relationship management.
- Experience procuring services is essential. Candidates with a procurement background focused solely on goods or products will not be considered.
- Strong knowledge of supplier management, commercial governance, contract performance and supply chain best practice.
- Experience managing service contracts within Facilities Management, Property Services, Construction, Engineering or another service-led environment.
- Strong commercial awareness with experience supporting tender processes, supplier evaluations and contract negotiations.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
- Strong analytical skills with experience interpreting supplier performance data and implementing improvements.
- Experience using Microsoft Office and procurement or contract management systems.
- A proactive, organised and solutions-focused approach, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Desirable:
- A qualification in Procurement, Commercial Management, Supply Chain or Facilities Management (or working towards one).
- Experience within defence, regulated industries or large-scale FM contracts.
What’s in it for you?
Join a leading facilities management organisation that values collaboration, continuous improvement and commercial excellence. You’ll have the opportunity to influence supplier strategy across a nationally significant portfolio while enjoying genuine career development and flexible home-based working.
You’ll receive:
- Salary of up to £62,000
- £3,600 car allowance.
- Home-based role with travel across England.
- 25 days annual leave.
- 6% matched pension contribution.
- Single private medical cover.
- Life assurance (2x annual salary).
- Ongoing training and professional development.
- The opportunity to work on high-profile national contracts within a supportive and collaborative team.
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