Senior Facilities & Procurement Manager

Department: Operations

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK (London)

Description

Procurement Manager / Senior Facilities Manager & Procurement Manager

London

Hybrid, two days in office 

Permanent 

We are a fast-growing global reinsurance speciality company servicing the insurance markets of Lloyd’s, Europe and North America.

Due to growth, we are looking for our first Senior Facilities & Procurement Manager to establish and lead our procurement function from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to design and implement procurement frameworks, introduce best-in-class supplier governance and drive commercial value across the business.

A key focus of this role will be IT services and technology procurement, ensuring robust supplier management, cost optimisation and governance across critical technology and infrastructure services.

Responsibilities

• Build and implement a fit-for-purpose procurement framework, including policies, controls and governance.
• Conduct spend analysis to identify opportunities, with a particular focus on IT services, infrastructure, and digital suppliers.
• Lead supplier negotiations across key categories, especially IT services (managed services, SaaS, infrastructure, cyber).
• Establish supplier due diligence processes and maintain a central supplier register.
• Manage contract lifecycle (negotiation, renewal, compliance, documentation).
• Drive cost efficiencies and value improvement across the supplier base.
• Partner with IT and senior stakeholders to shape sourcing strategies for technology solutions.
• Evaluate and negotiate contracts with IT vendors, ensuring scalability, security and value.
• Support vendor selection for systems, tools and outsourcing arrangements.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory expectations around third-party technology risk and outsourcing.
• Introduce best practices in IT supplier governance and performance management.
• Support audit, regulatory and board-level reporting on supplier risk and performance.

Facilities & Operational Oversight

• Oversee facilities management across UK and international offices.
• Manage vendors for office services, ensuring compliance and operational efficiency.
• Support office projects (relocations, refurbishments and fit-outs).

Candidate requirements

• Right to work in this location
• Proven experience in procurement or supply chain, ideally within financial services, insurance or professional services.
• Strong track record in IT procurement (managed services, SaaS, infrastructure, cloud).
• Experience building or transforming procurement functions.
• Strong commercial and negotiation skills.
• Knowledge of third-party risk, outsourcing, and regulatory requirements (e.g., FCA/PRA).
• Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders across business and IT teams.
• CIPS qualification (or working towards).
• Experience across multiple international jurisdictions.

Benefits

Compre is a global speciality reinsurance company that offers capital and liability solutions to its clients, providing them with the certainty they need on their portfolios. We are known for being trusted partners to the market and for having a team of experts who collaborate and maintain discipline in underwriting, ensuring a differentiated client experience.  As an ambitious business, we are focused on building depth, breadth, and diversity in the talent across our business to be future-ready. Our clients' needs evolve as the market changes, which is why we continuously invest in areas such as data and technology. This way, we can serve current and future clients' needs with scalable and new technology, delivered by our growing agile Data and Technology team.  

• Our values are what make us stand out. We value each other, empower and hold ourselves accountable, are authentic, collaborative and inclusive, and continuously strive for progress and innovation.

 Why join us? At Compre, we offer a range of benefits and team engagement events and provide a supportive environment for learning and growth. We are intent upon building a great business, and over the last few years, we have expanded our markets across Europe, Lloyd's, and North America. Our team is based in Bermuda, Finland, Germany, Malta, UK and the US. To keep our globally dispersed team connected, we have various employee resource groups, including Wellbeing, DEI, COMMS and Engagement.  We invest in our people and offer learning and development opportunities for leaders and employees to build confidence and grow their skill sets. We value teamwork, authenticity, and innovation, and provide a space for these behaviours to bloom at Compre. Make an impact in a collaborative environment with some of the best talent in the industry, while enjoying: ·        competitive salary & annual bonus·        a health & wellbeing subsidy (£20 per month) (from Day 1)·        a generous pension (eligible after probationary period)·        private healthcare from BUPA and a Healthcare Cash Plan from Medicash (from Day 1)·        life assurance (from Day 1)·        income protection (from Day 1)·        25 days annual leave (from Day 1)·        cycle to work scheme (from Day 1)·        season ticket loan (interest free) (eligible after probationary period)·        electric vehicle scheme (eligible after probationary period)·        EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) (from Day 1)·        learning/study support and reimbursement for professional memberships·        hybrid working·        employee socials and recognition programme