Portfolio Procurement has been engaged by our leading Hertfordshire based client to recruit an interim Procurement Manager on an initial 3-month contract. The role:The primary purpose of this role is to lead the effective delivery of operational procurement activity across the Water division, ensuring robust process control, supplier performance, and compliance with procurement policies and preferred supplier frameworks. The role focuses on driving cost avoidance, improving purchasing behaviours, reducing invoices on hold, and delivering supply chain rationalisation, while maintaining strong governance over P-card spend and master data integrity. It is responsible for producing and leveraging data insights to improve operational performance, supporting bid and mobilisation activity, and embedding new suppliers into business processes. Day to Day duties:Manage the performance of the Buying Desk team as part of wider operational procurement delivery, ensuring adherence to lead time SLAs and quality management KPIsAct as an escalation point for procurement-related queries, including those arising from the Buying DeskResolve non-standard procurement queries across operational activities, including those received via the Buying DeskDevelop, implement, and maintain standard operating procedures for operational procurement activitiesMonitor and enforce compliance with preferred supplier pathways across all purchasing activityDeliver against an agreed cost avoidance savings ..... full job details .....