Chief Procurement Officer

About The Brandtech Group

The Brandtech Group is a marketing and technology holding company operating across roughly 7,000 people in around 45 markets. Its portfolio of business units – including Oliver, Jellyfish, Pencil, Collectively, Gravity Road, fifty-five, Mobkoi, Acorn-i, DP6 and Brandtech Consulting – spans creative, media, data and AI-powered marketing services. The Group is scaling quickly through organic growth and acquisition, which places a premium on disciplined, well-governed procurement as the business integrates new entities and suppliers.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly strategic, commercially minded Chief Procurement Officer to lead procurement across The Brandtech Group. This is a pivotal leadership role, accountable for creating strategic and commercial value, enabling the Group's growth agenda, and protecting the business from supplier, contractual and third-party risk – not simply driving cost efficiency.

The CPO will build a scalable, group-wide procurement function that delivers commercial value creation, supplier quality and risk resilience across a multi-brand, multi-market holding structure.

The role operates within a federated operating model – influencing procurement decisions across autonomous business units through credibility and commercial insight, rather than direct line authority, while setting Group standards and governance. The function is organised around the Group's largest markets, with dedicated regional Heads of Procurement for the US and UK/EMEA reporting into the CPO, supporting the Group's aim of a lean, coordinated global team rather than a large central function.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Develop a multi-year procurement transformation roadmap aligned to the Group's growth strategy, including organic growth, M&A and AI-driven transformation

• Advise the Executive Leadership Team on commercial, supplier and market risks, acting as a trusted advisor rather than a purely operational function

• Shape Group sourcing strategy to support AI, technology and digital transformation initiatives across the portfolio

• Benchmark procurement performance against industry best practice, bringing external perspective to the Group's approach

• Operate within a federated operating model, influencing procurement decisions across autonomous business units while defining Group standards and governanceRegional

Structure & Team Leadership

• Establish and lead a lean, regionally structured procurement function, built around dedicated Heads of Procurement for the Group's largest markets – initially the US and UK/EMEA, with possible extension to France as the Group's footprint requires

• Coordinate procurement resources and priorities across regional leads and business-unit-

embedded category leads, ensuring consistent standards while allowing each region to reflect local market and business unit needs

• Establish and scale a high-performing Group procurement function, and act as the escalation point for regional and category procurement leads embedded in business units

• Represent procurement in senior stakeholder forums, including business unit leadership and the Group People and Finance functions

Procurement Operations & Governance

• Manage and lead a Group-wide supplier and vendor management framework, including onboarding, due diligence, contract standards and performance review

• Identify and deliver commercial value creation – spanning cost savings, quality, risk reduction and innovation – through negotiation, consolidation of spend, and rationalisation of supplier panels across business units

• Partner with Finance, Legal and IT to strengthen contract governance, procurement policy and

approval workflows Group-wide

• Lead due diligence and supplier integration for newly acquired business units, aligning them to

Group procurement standards and systems – a particularly prominent part of the role given the

Group's acquisitive growth strategy

• Manage strategic supplier relationships, including technology and AI platform vendors, media

suppliers and major professional services providers

• Establish spend analytics capabilities to improve visibility, identify opportunities and support

strategic decision-making

• Establish procurement KPIs and reporting for the Group Executive team, covering commercial value delivered, contract compliance and supplier risk

Risk & Resilience

• Assess and mitigate third-party and supply chain risk, including data security, financial stability and regulatory compliance of key suppliers

• Own supply chain resilience and business continuity planning for critical suppliers and categories

• Monitor and manage supplier concentration risk across the Group's category and vendor base

• Assess geopolitical risk affecting suppliers and sourcing decisions across the Group's ~45 markets

• Lead AI vendor governance, including risk assessment and contracting for AI and data-driven

procurement platforms

• Track and respond to relevant regulatory change (e.g. GDPR, the EU AI Act, DORA where applicable)

affecting procurement and supplier contracts

Responsible Procurement

• Lead responsible procurement initiatives, including supplier diversity, sustainability, modern slavery

compliance and ethical sourcing, reflecting the Group's global footprintIdeal Candidate Profile

Experience

• Significant senior procurement leadership experience, ideally gained in a multi-entity, professional or marketing services environment

• Track record of building or scaling a procurement function across multiple business units,

geographies or brands, including designing regional operating structures

• Experience managing technology, media and professional services procurement categories

specifically

• Experience with procurement technology across platforms, Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM),

Supplier Risk Management, ERP integration and AI-enabled procurement tools – familiarity with

Omnea or an equivalent modern procurement platform is an advantage, though not essential

• Experience leading procurement in PE-backed or high-growth businesses

• Significant experience integrating acquisitions into a Group procurement framework – particularly relevant given Brandtech's acquisitive strategy

• Experience operating internationally across multiple regulatory environments, with contract

negotiation and vendor risk management across jurisdictions – US and UK/EMEA experience

particularly relevant

Capabilities

• Strong commercial negotiation skills with demonstrable, quantifiable value creation delivered at scale

Strong understanding of SaaS licensing and technology contracting

• Skilled at influencing executive stakeholders without direct reporting authority

• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, acquisitive group structure, balancing central control with business unit autonomy

Leadership

• Strong stakeholder management skills, credible with C-suite executives, Finance, Legal and

business unit leaders

• Proven experience building and leading procurement teams across regions

• Ability to build trust across senior stakeholders in a federated organisation

Personal Attributes

• Pragmatic and commercially minded

• Comfortable operating with ambiguity

• A collaborative influencer, able to build credibility without formal authority

• A change leader, able to embed new ways of working across a federated group

• Able to balance governance with entrepreneurial business cultures