Procurement director jobs · permanent, interim and fractional

Procurement director jobs: the seat, and what our board shows

A procurement director owns the company’s spend with its suppliers: which categories are bought centrally, how suppliers are chosen and managed, what the contracts say, and the savings, quality and risk outcomes the board is told about. In a large business the seat leads category managers, buyers and a supplier-management team; in a smaller one, the procurement director may be most of the team.

The seat now carries rules as well as targets. A company in scope of section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 must publish a modern slavery statement each year, and the government’s transparency in supply chains guidance sets out what it should cover; the evidence usually comes from procurement. In the public sector, buying runs under the Procurement Act 2023, a regime the Cabinet Office announced as in force in February 2025.

What the board below lists

Our board does not yet have a procurement category, so it cannot list procurement roles on their own. Rather than pad the page, the board shows the operations and finance leadership roles on our board, the seats procurement most often reports into, permanent roles first where the posting says full-time, and says what they are. We recruit permanent, interim, fractional and part-time procurement directors; for interim briefs, see interim procurement jobs.

Head of procurement jobs the same seat, or the one below

Head of procurement jobs cover two different seats. In a mid-sized company head of procurement is the top procurement role, doing the director’s job under a plainer title. In a larger one the head of procurement runs a category, a region or a business unit and reports to a procurement director or a chief procurement officer. Read the reporting line: a role that reports to the chief financial officer or chief operating officer and owns the procurement strategy is the top seat, whatever it is called.

Chief procurement officer jobs are the top seat in larger groups, usually with a seat on or beside the executive committee. Head of commercial, commercial director (public sector) and director of supply chain describe overlapping jobs; search all of them, then sort by what each role owns.

The interview tests the same three things whatever the title: the scale and kind of spend you have run, one sourcing decision you would defend and one you would now make differently, and how you handled a supplier failure.