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We seek an exceptional Director of Procurement and Commercial to lead procurement, commercial and contract management for the University. This senior role will shape how the University secures value, manages commercial risk and delivers outcome-focused services through external suppliers.You will lead a function of around 25 colleagues, developing a unified, customer-focused culture. You will establish the procurement and commercial strategy, build a forward plan for external spend, and ensure supplier relationships and contracts support financial sustainability, supply chain security and strategic objectives.About the roleAs our senior procurement and commercial authority, you will advise senior leaders on major procurement, commercial and contract matters, including high-value and high-risk projects. You will oversee complex negotiations, strengthen contract and supplier relationship management, and ensure governance, probity and risk-based controls across external spend of approximately £300 million per annum.You will be a key member of the Finance Executive Leadership Team, working closely with the University Executive Board, Executive Directors, and senior stakeholders. Externally, you will represent the University with strategic suppliers, regulators, funding bodies, advisers, sector networks and partners.This role will be hybrid working with a minimum of two days per week on campus.Key responsibilitiesProvide strategic leadership for procurement, commercial and contract management.Develop and implement an ambitious procurement and commercial strategy that delivers value for money, service improvement and risk management.Lead high-value and complex commercial and supplier negotiations, advising on financial, legal and reputational implications.Promote and drive strong contract management and supplier relationship management approachesLead and develop a high-performing, collaborative and customer-focused team.Build strong stakeholder relationships and promote a business partnering approach.Support financial planning through a forward pipeline of procurement opportunities, savings targets and commercial risk mitigation.Ensure strong governance, probity and compliance with internal controls and external statutory requirements.About youYou will bring extensive senior-level procurement, commercial and contract management experience in a large, complex organisation, with the credibility and judgement to influence at executive and Board level. You will be commercially astute, confident in high-value negotiations and experienced in governance frameworks that protect probity while enabling effective decisions.You will have a strong record of leading teams through change, setting strategic direction and building trusted relationships across organisational boundaries. You will explain complex commercial matters clearly to non-specialists and be motivated to modernise procurement and commercial practice in support of the University’s success.Essential experience and attributesStrategic leadership experience in procurement, commercial and contract management within a complex organisation.Experience of managing multimillion-pound external spend across goods, works and services.Strong commercial acumen and experience of leading complex, high-value negotiations.Evidence of advising senior stakeholders and influencing strategic decisions.Experience of leading transformational change, service improvement and innovation.Ability to lead, motivate and develop a high-performing professional team.Ability to solve problems and challenge the status quo, balancing pragmatism and commercial approaches within policy.Membership of CIPS or equivalent professional standing, or demonstrable significant commercial expertise and impact.Why join us?This is a rare opportunity to shape a strategically important function. You will enable financial sustainability, improve value, strengthen commercial capability and support the University’s ambitions through excellent procurement and contract management.To apply, please submit your CV, and supporting statement, setting out how your experience, skills and leadership approach meet the role requirements, along with details for 3 referees. Closing Date: 22 Jul 2026 Section: Management, Specialist & Administrative Salary: Competitive: Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience (Level 7) Full Time Permanent

2 part-time roles available: Sunday-Thursday 18:30-22:00, Term-time only and Tuesday-Saturday 18:30-22:00, Term-time only.This role will be based on the university campus. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangementsYou will be working as part of a team providing high-quality front-line support to the University’s staff and students, and to external customers across our libraries as required. Main duties include ensuring our Libraries are welcoming spaces for visitors as well as answering enquiries and assisting our customers in getting the most out of our spaces and services. You'll have experience of working in a customer facing role with the ability to engage positively and proactively with customers. You'll also have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, be able to work well with others, and have great attention to detail.This role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Information on other visa options is available at: https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas.What we offer in return26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!Generous pension scheme options plus life assuranceHealth and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.And much more! To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:Skye Tinsley, Library Customer Services ManagerEmail: [email protected] Closing Date: 20 Jul 2026 Section: Administrative and Clerical Support Salary: £25,249 to £26,093 per annum pro-rata

Have you got a passion for advancing student success and access to higher education?Are you an accomplished senior leader who can deliver strategic outcomes within a large, complex organisation?Do you have extensive experience in strategic planning, governance, financial management, risk management, and organisational performance?Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington is currently recruiting an exceptional strategic leader to join our Tumu Whakauru - Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Students) portfolio as Manutaki - Director, Future Students and Student Operations on a permanent, full-time basis. This is a key executive leadership role responsible for shaping the University's future student pipeline, domestic recruitment strategy, admissions, enrolments, scholarships, and core student operations. The role provides strategic leadership across the student journey, ensuring an outstanding student experience while delivering sustainable enrolment growth and operational excellence. As a senior leader, you will represent the University across the tertiary and secondary education sectors, develop strategic partnerships, and influence institutional direction through data-driven decision-making, innovation, and continuous improvement. You will lead a high-performing directorate and play a critical role in positioning the University as a compelling and accessible destination for future students.Key responsibilities:Lead the University's domestic recruitment, admissions, enrolment, scholarships, and student operations strategies to deliver sustainable growth and an exceptional student experience. Provide strategic advice to the Tumu Whakauru - Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Students) on opportunities, risks, performance, and future direction. Drive operational excellence through strong governance, regulatory compliance, risk management, and digital transformation initiatives.Lead and develop a high-performing leadership team, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Build strategic relationships with government agencies, secondary schools, community partners, faculty leaders, and sector stakeholders to strengthen pathways and enhance the University's reputation.Ō pūmanawa - About youYou will be an accomplished and values-driven senior leader with a proven ability to deliver strategic outcomes within a large, complex organisation. You will bring a strong blend of strategic thinking, operational leadership, stakeholder engagement, and people leadership, together with a passion for advancing student success and access to higher education.Key requirements:Significant senior leadership experience within tertiary education or a similarly complex environment, with responsibility for large-scale operational or student-facing services. Demonstrated success delivering organisational growth, operational transformation, and measurable improvements in customer or student outcomes. Extensive experience in strategic planning, governance, financial management, risk management, and organisational performance. Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing, multidisciplinary teams through change and growth. Strong analytical capability and experience using data and market insights to inform strategy and decision-making.Outstanding communication, relationship-building, and influencing skills, with experience engaging senior stakeholders, government agencies, and sector partners. Demonstrated commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and advancing equitable outcomes for Māori and other under-represented groups. Relevant postgraduate qualification or equivalent senior leadership experience.Role Description: Click here to see further information. If this link is not available, click 'apply' to view this on the University careers page. Close date for vacancy: 24 July 2026.Contact details for vacancy: If you have any questions regarding this role please get in touch with Sue Walsh, Senior HR Adviser ([email protected]).How to apply: Please ensure you are applying for this role directly on our careers page and not via email. Candidates must submit supporting documents along with their resume, such as a cover letter.We can only consider applicants who are citizens or residents of New Zealand or Australia or on a current working visa. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and we may progress with suitable applicants prior to the application closing date. Applications from recruitment agencies are not accepted.About UsMō Te Herenga Waka - About Our University Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington is renowned for its high-quality research and exceptional teaching. We attract people from around the world. Our university campus spans Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington - the creative, scientific and political centre of Aotearoa New Zealand - and our students thrive on the connections we have made here. Explore the many benefits of working at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. Find out where you fit in our strategic direction and learn more about our research expertise.

With a legacy of pioneering research, transformative teaching and real-world impact, the University of Surrey has consistently produced graduates and discoveries that change practice and change lives. Ambitious, growing and increasingly influential on the global stage, we are driving forward the bold ambitions of the University’s Vision 2041 with a continuing positive impact on society and the planet.Central to our ambitions is the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, home to 650 staff and 5,500 students across five Schools: Biosciences, Health Sciences, Medicine, Psychology and Veterinary Medicine. Building on our unique diversity in health professions and sciences, our aim is to develop an integrated research workforce with a core ethos of team science to drive substantial growth in our research activity and impact. The Faculty delivers high quality research, learning and teaching, supported by excellent facilities and technical expertise. In REF 2021, our UoA3 ranked highly for research power. The Faculty is uniquely placed to play a defining role in the delivery of Vision 2041.The OpportunityWe are now seeking an exceptional research leader to take up the role of Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. This senior leadership appointment will shape and have overarching responsibility for the strategic direction of research and innovation across the entire Faculty. A central priority will be to lead the refresh and delivery of the Faculty’s Research and Innovation Strategy, ensuring alignment with the University’s Vision 2041, the developing pan-University Institute for Future Health, and future REF ambitions.As a key member of the Faculty Executive Team, you will lead a research and innovation mission built around delivering measurable improvements in human and animal health, and dependent on breaking down the boundaries between disciplines, and between knowledge and its application. From infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance to cardiometabolic health, healthy ageing and the future of clinical care, in this role you will have the platform, the ambition and the institutional backing to ensure our research is bold, internationally competitive and genuinely transformative.The successful postholder will be an established professorial academic with a sustained record of research excellence, significant income generation and demonstrable external impact in a discipline relevant to the Faculty. An inclusive and collaborative leader, you will be able to set a compelling strategic direction, lead through influence, use evidence and data to drive performance, quality and impact, and build partnerships with relevant external organisations including funders and healthcare providers.Why SurreyYou will be joining a diverse, welcoming and genuinely collaborative community, at a university with the ambition of a rising global player. This is an opportunity to take up a role of real strategic significance, to lead, build, and to define the future of health research at an exciting moment for the University.This is a permanent Professorial level academic appointment, with the ADR&I role responsibility held for an initial period of five years with potential for a further extension. Following completion of the ADR&I tenure the post holder will return to a standard academic portfolio, although further leadership roles will offer opportunities for continued career progression. We welcome applications from all academic areas represented within the Faculty, and the ADR&I role attracts a pensionable responsibility allowance.How to ApplyGlobal executive search firm Perrett Laver have been appointed to support the University of Surrey in this appointment. If you would like to discuss this opportunity further or have any questions about the role, including requesting documentation in an alternative format, please contact Devin Dattan at [email protected] apply, please submit a CV and cover letter detailing how you fulfil the role description and specification, to https://plusportal.perrettlaver.com/ quoting reference 8568. From here you can request more information, including the full recruitment pack.The deadline for applications is 23.59BST on Monday, 31st August 2026. The University of Surrey is committed to an inclusive environment offering equal opportunities for all and particularly encourages applications from under‑represented groups.Perrett Laver’s GDPR Policy Protecting your personal data is of the utmost importance to Perrett Laver and we take this responsibility very seriously. Any information obtained by our trading divisions is held and processed in accordance with the relevant data protection legislation. The data you provide us with is securely stored on our computerised database and transferred to our clients for the purposes of presenting you as a candidate and/or considering your suitability for a role you have registered interest in.Perrett Laver is a Data Controller and a Data Processor, and our legal basis for processing your personal data is ‘Legitimate Interests’. You have the right to object to us processing your data in this way. For more information about this, your rights, and our approach to Data Protection and Privacy, please visit our website https://perrettlaver.com/privacy-statement/ Closing Date: 31 Aug 2026 Area: Research & Teaching Salary: Competitive Salary