Procurement Manager (Direct)
The Company
Nomia is focused on delivering an innovative and disruptive procurement solution to our customers to make managing tail spend simpler, more transparent, and generate incremental value.
Nomia acts as an extension of our customer’s procurement team by aggregating and executing the end-to-end sourcing, supplier onboarding and contracting process for indirect categories of spend. We are a global team, with Procurement Hubs in Singapore, Dubai, London & Chicago.
The Role
The procurement team are fundamental to our company, by combining the rich experience of our people with the innovative use of our technology, Nomia brings a unique and disruptive procurement solution to our customers to better-manage their tail spend.
Procurement is responsible for the end-to-end sourcing and procurement activities for customer tail spend projects. We are trusted by our customers to maximise the value of their investment and provide an excellent customer experience.
The team is focused on developing strong global category strategy, regional supplier relationships, and speed of project execution through a global purchasing team. Our talented and high-performing global team works with customers across Europe, Middle East, North America, and Asia.
About You
Nomia is looking for an ambitious and enthusiastic person to join our team. This person will help contribute to the success of Nomia’s regional procurement hub, and will therefore be a driven, self-starter who is looking to be part of an exciting journey within a procure-tech company.
We are looking for our regional procurement manager to be spending some of their time face-to-face with our customers and suppliers, this person should therefore be a commutable distance to a Nomia office, and be able to travel to our customers or suppliers if required, with limited travel anticipated, primarily within region.
Key Responsibilities
Regional Sourcing & Procurement
Support development and execution of regional procurement strategy, ensuring alignment with Nomia’s business objectives, customer requirements, and regional market dynamics.
Lead end-to-end sourcing and procurement activities for direct materials and product-based procurement requirements to support Nomia’s customer spend.
Run RFx processes (RFQ/RFP) using Nomia platform, ensuring structured and comparable supplier responses.
Identify and qualify suppliers based on cost competitiveness, quality standards, delivery capability, and risk profile.
Negotiate pricing, commercial terms, and supply agreements with vendors.
Ensure sourcing outcomes align with Nomia procurement standards and client requirements.
Supplier Development & Relationship Management
Build and maintain strong relationships with regional suppliers and distributors.
Expand Nomia’s supplier network by identifying and onboarding qualified regional vendors.
Maintain and manage the regional preferred supplier list for direct categories.
Monitor supplier performance including responsiveness, delivery reliability, quality, and pricing competitiveness.
Category & Market Expertise
Support the development and implementation of category strategies for direct spend.
Apply category management principles to regional spend not covered by global category teams.
Conduct regional spend and supply market analysis to identify sourcing opportunities.
Provide regional supply market intelligence to Category Management and Global Buying teams.
Supplier Onboarding & Compliance
Manage regional supplier onboarding ensuring completion of compliance checks, sanctions screening, and contractual documentation.
Ensure suppliers adopt the Nomia platform and follow structured RFx processes.
Customer & Internal Collaboration
Support sourcing activities for new customer contracts, ensuring supplier capability, pricing structures, and sourcing processes are ready to support successful onboarding.
Work collaboratively with other functions, including business development, product, customer success, legal, and finance, to ensure alignment of delivering exceptional customer experiences.
Represent Nomia in supplier and customer meetings when required.
Risk Management & Continuous Improvement
Monitor supply risks and proactively identify mitigation strategies.
Resolve supplier issues including delivery delays, availability constraints, quality issues, or pricing discrepancies.
Contribute to continuous improvement of sourcing processes and procurement playbooks.
Ensure certification and conformity compliance of products / materials.
Qualifications/Skills
5+ years of experience working in a sourcing & Procurement role.
Proven ability to support category strategies & SRM initiatives.
A strong understanding of sourcing and procurement, S2P workflows and processes, and technologies.
A strong level of experience of data analysis, sourcing, commercial and contract negotiation, and SRM.
Experience working with enterprise SaaS is advantageous.
Effective, empathetic verbal and written communication with all levels of seniority.
General
Adhere to Nomia’s data protection and information security policies at all times.
Promote diversity and inclusion in line with Nomia’s core values.
This is a hybrid role, with three office days per week required, potentially more during training or as requested by your supervisor.
Contribute to continuous improvement in systems and processes.
Please note that this role description is a guideline, and duties may evolve over time.
- Department
- Procurement
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
About Nomia
Nomia Ltd is a Procurement Management Company.
Our specialist and experienced teams drive category and geographical insights underpinned and supported by our cloud based Nomia platform. Enabling Nomia to help transform sourcing activities for customers spend.
By combining our AI driven platform with specialism, Nomia enhances spend transparency, lowers costs, boosts compliance, minimises supply chain-risk and enables material ESG impact.