Location
London, United Kingdom

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive salary + Bonus (where applicable)

About the Role
The Senior Manager, Sustainable Procurement within Liberty Blume Procurement Services (LBPS) will play a pivotal role in delivering sustainable procurement across our suppliers and customers. This role requires collaboration with LBPS teams, suppliers, and customers to embed sustainability practices throughout the supply chain. The successful candidate will help build a culture of resilience and sustainability, ensuring compliance with relevant sustainability standards. This position suits a motivated individual with a passion for sustainable procurement and experience in sustainability and risk management. An interest in the evolving procure-tech landscape and its potential to enable a resilient and sustainable supply chain is also important.

Key Accountabilities
- Deliver market intelligence and best-in-class examples to embed sustainable practices across sourcing strategies, supplier evaluation, monitoring, and contractual negotiations.
- Design, manage, and update procurement documentation supporting source-to-contract processes and sustainability goals, including policies, strategies, training materials, and supplier codes of conduct.
- Support sustainability impact assessments of suppliers, including reviewing and scoring supplier screening and RFP responses.
- Lead and coordinate the annual EcoVadis sustainability assessment campaign, ensuring supplier engagement, accurate data submission, and progress reporting.
- Collaborate with suppliers to enhance sustainability performance through audits, carbon reduction, and engagement programmes.
- Engage with industry networks, forums, and conferences to share best practices and raise LBPS profile.
- Integrate social responsibility considerations into supplier evaluations, ensuring compliance with labour standards, human rights, and ethical business practices.
- Use and maintain data management tools to ensure accurate data processing, analysis, and reporting to support decision-making and monitor environmental impact.

Benefits
Competitive salary + Bonus (where applicable)
25 days annual leave with option to purchase 5 more
Access to wellbeing and mental health benefits including Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover, and dental insurance
Matched pension contribution up to 10%
Access to car benefit scheme
Access to online learning platform for career development
Opportunity to join an innovative, fast-paced, and passionate team

About Liberty Blume
Liberty Blume, a Liberty Global company, is a rapidly growing business services provider specialising in tech-enabled back-office solutions. Our mission is to deliver efficiency, scale, and value through Business, Procurement, and Financial Solutions. We are committed to an inclusive environment and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.

Experience
- Proven experience in sustainability within procurement and supply chain, ideally in a blue-chip in-house procurement team or consulting/professional services.
- Strong understanding of sustainable procurement principles, environmental standards, and social responsibility frameworks including EU regulations and certification schemes (e.g., ISO 20400, GRI, CIPS Sustainability Index, CSRD, CSDDD, CBAM).
- Experience using sustainability risk assessment tools such as Moody's, EcoVadis, and Dun & Bradstreet.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams, including training, mentoring, and coaching junior staff.
- Experience working cross-functionally with customer leads, functional teams, and senior leadership.
- Proficient in software tools such as PowerPoint, Visio, PowerBI, and Excel for data analysis and reporting.

About you
- Hard-working, motivated, and passionate about sustainable procurement.
- Proactive self-starter with strong initiative and curiosity to challenge conventional approaches.
- Comfortable working independently and driving projects from ambiguous or loosely defined briefs.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, analyse data, identify key indicators, and make data-driven decisions.
- Excellent communication and reporting skills, capable of preparing governance documents and key presentations.
- Interest and understanding of emerging procure-tech solutions relevant to sustainable supply chains.

Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree preferred in procurement, supply chain management, sustainability, risk management, or related field.
- Advanced degree or relevant certifications in sustainability and/or risk management desirable.