Procurement Business Partner

The Role

The team..

ITV's Group Procurement team is a key driving force behind our transformation. We fuel business growth by driving strategic cost-saving programmes and improving the value of our digital investments.

The role..

We're on the lookout for a dynamic Procurement Business Partner to join our team on a permanent basis, reporting directly to the Procurement Director for Marketing & Corporate Services. In this strategic role, you'll be at the heart of crafting ITV's innovation and commercial decisions across Professional Services and Travel. Working closely with senior collaborators and executive leaders, you'll play a critical part in driving value, supporting digital transformation, and ensuring our procurement strategies align with both business goals and ITV's social purpose. This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who thrives with influence, collaboration, and delivering long-term, measurable outcomes.

Some of your key day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Build positive relationships with senior collaborators and external partners to influence commercial decisions.
• Translate business challenges into procurement strategies that unlock long-term, balanced value.
• Apply sophisticated spend analytics, predictive market intelligence, and groundbreaking tools to produce actionable insights and predict future opportunities.
• Lead strategic sourcing, tendering, and contract negotiations for key projects.
• Support digital transformation by seeing opportunities through technology, data, and AI.
• Lead supplier performance and third-party risk, ensuring alignment with ITV's social and sustainability goals.
• Collaborate with Finance to forecast, track, and validate cost savings.
• Drive continuous improvement across procurement processes and capabilities.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year pipeline of high-impact procurement projects.
• Influence technical and commercial decisions to optimise cost, service, and innovation outcomes.

Skills you'll need (minimum criteria)

• Shown experience in professional services, marketing and/or technology procurement
• Proven track record in strategic sourcing and delivering sophisticated procurement projects.
• Background in collaborating with credible associates and diverse teams.
• Strong analytical skills that enable the extraction of insights from data.
• Ability to align procurement activity with strategic business goals.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, commercial environment.

Other things we're looking for (key criteria)

• Experience in travel procurement
• Strong collaborator management, with the ability to influence and challenge senior leaders while maintaining credibility and trust.
• Collaborative approach - works optimallyy as an internal consultant, partnering across teams to align procurement with business goals.
• Highly resilient and adaptable, comfortable handling ambiguity, shifting priorities, and navigating change.
• Commercially astute and customer-focused, with a continuous improvement outlook.
• Able to balance group-level priorities with local business needs, navigating tensions with diplomacy and integrity.
• Strategic problem solver who can connect the dots, generate insight from multiple data points, and present innovative solutions.
• Naturally curious and a quick learner, always looking for better ways to do things.
• A positive, proactive teammate who builds strong relationships and gives to a collaborative culture.

Please note, on occasion we may receive a very large volume of applications which means applications for a role may close earlier than the referenced closing date. We'd encourage you to apply as soon as possible if interested.