ISP Divisional Procurement Lead – Middle East & Asia

About the role

The ISP Divisional Procurement Lead leads procurement across an ISP division across a variety of spend areas, while owning the Facilities, Real Estate & Construction category strategy. The role combines regional procurement leadership, stakeholder partnership and operational support with global category management responsibility for Facilities Management and related professional services. It drives value, governance, supplier performance, risk management and stakeholder satisfaction.

Key responsibilities

• Provide regional procurement support across a broad range of indirect categories and act as the division's senior procurement business partner
• Build trusted relationships with executives and school operators, develop divisional procurement plans and support regional procurement leads and procurement transformation
• Manage supplier escalations, compliance and risk
• Own global category strategies for Facilities Management, Hard FM, Soft FM, Cleaning, Security, Catering, Utilities, Property Services, Real Estate, Capital Projects, Construction and Consultancy Services
• Develop multi-year category strategies aligned to ISP growth, acquisitions and operational requirements, and lead complex sourcing programmes, negotiations and contracting
• Deliver measurable savings, cost avoidance, value creation and operational improvements, and support procurement for new school openings, expansions and refurbishments
• Lead executive-level supplier relationship management and governance, and partner with Property, Finance, Legal and Operations leaders
• Drive demand management, sustainability and whole-life cost optimisation

Required profile

• Demonstrated ability to act as a strategic procurement business partner, balancing stakeholder priorities with commercial, risk and governance outcomes
• Extensive procurement experience within multinational organisations
• Strong indirect procurement experience with exposure to FM, Property, Construction or Capital Projects desirable
• Experience supporting capital projects, operational services or business-critical procurement programmes desirable
• Executive stakeholder management and influencing skills
• MCIPS, FCIPS or equivalent preferred