Senior Partner Manager

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.

Apply Now! To apply for the position of Senior Partner Manager, click 'Apply Now' and send your CV to George Davis. Interviews are taking place now, so don't miss this opportunity to join a leading organisation driving commercial excellence across a national facilities management portfolio.