Procurement Business Partner

Procurement Business Partner

Location: Stoke on Trent

Hours of work: 37.5

Contract Type: Permanent

ISS is seeking a Procurement Business Partner to provide strategic procurement leadership across one of our largest and most ambitious UK accounts.

This is a rare opportunity to play a key role in a high-impact mobilisation and delivery programme within a fast-paced, client-focused environment.

Job Description

You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders to drive procurement efficiency, improve quality, and strengthen compliance.

By embedding best practices and overseeing procurement for planned, reactive, and project works, you'll ensure high performance standards across the board.

This is a dynamic and rewarding role for someone passionate about procurement transformation, supplier performance, and making a tangible impact on one of ISS’s flagship contracts.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and implement opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, innovation, and customer service across the account.
• Work with Capital Projects to ensure value for money in project procurement activities.
• Lead successful supplier mobilisation, ensuring compliance and alignment with client requirements.
• Act as the key link between Procurement and the account team to maintain strategic alignment.
• Ensure supplier assurance and contractual governance requirements are consistently met.
• Support rebate management to maximise commercial benefits for the business.
• Drive contract compliance and supplier performance, aiming for 80% adherence to the Preferred Supplier List.

Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications

• Broad understanding of FM operations (hard and/or soft services preferred).
• Strong sourcing and procurement skills with experience in large-scale environments.
• Confident engaging with demanding, high-profile clients.
• Able to work collaboratively with both client stakeholders and internal ISS teams.
• Adaptable, commercially aware, and focused on driving value and compliance.

UK The Company

ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #ISSGreatPeople #ISSTalent #PeopleMakePlace

ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.

We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.

If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team by emailing [email protected]