The IWG Group is looking for a talented experienced procurement professional to become our
Regional Centre Costs Manager, reporting directly to the Regional Operations VP,
with dotted line to the Director, Group Centre Costs.
Job Purpose
- Execute tendering, negotiation, and contracting in the region to deliver measurable savings and
compliant spend aligned to global specifications and category strategies
- Drive regional deployment and value capture aligned to global category strategies, ensuring
strong supplier performance and delivery of contracted benefits
- Manage regional suppliers to deliver contracted cost, service, and mitigate risks
Key Responsibilities
- Run tendering and negotiation end to end in the region, aligned to global specifications, category
strategy, and commercial guardrails set by global category managers
- Build and own regional business cases, including baseline logic, savings run rate, implementation
plan, and delivery milestones
- Execute contracting and rollout locally, driving operational adoption and compliance across
centres and resolving implementation blockers
- Manage regional suppliers, including performance reviews, issue management, and corrective
actions to deliver contracted outcomes
- Own regional tracking, risks, and escalations, ensuring benefits are delivered and variances are
corrected quickly
- All other duties as requested by the line manager
Key Performance Indicators
- Percent of spend in approved specification
- Cost reduction versus baseline for key specifications
- Global savings delivered versus target and year on year savings sustainment
- Percent of spend routed through preferred suppliers
- Strategic supplier performance against scorecard targets
Key Qualifications
Required Skills, Experience & Qualifications
- Relevant experience in procurement, supply chain, engineering, or related discipline, ideally
within a greenfield environment and with a multicultural setup
Technical Skills Or Knowledge
- Strong tendering and negotiation capability with proven delivery of measurable savings
- Strong contracting and supplier management skills, including service level definition and
performance governance
- Practical change and stakeholder management to drive adoption and compliance in operations.
- Solid benefits realisation discipline, including baseline, run rate tracking, and leakage
management
Leadership Skills
- A proven thinker-doer, equally comfortable writing strategy and driving outcomes with urgency
- A confident decision maker
- Proven experience of successfully influencing stakeholders in a matrix environment
- Prioritises well consistently delivers against tight deadlines
- Team player with high level of professional integrity
- Excellent analytical skills with a passionate attitude to problem solving
- Strong attention to detail
- Comfortable with ambiguity and prepared to work in an agile and flexible way
- Quick to adapt to changes in a demanding fast paced multicultural environment
About The Company
IWG has been at the forefront of flexible working for more than 30 years. With over 5,400 locations
around the globe, spanning brands including Regus, Spaces, Signature and HQ, we have made it
possible for businesses of all sizes to make the transition to hybrid working, empowering employees to
work wherever and whenever is most convenient.
We help more than 8 million people and their businesses to work more productively, supported by a
choice of professional, inspiring and collaborative workspaces, communities and services.
As the world’s leading provider of hybrid work solutions, with four times the number of locations
compared to its nearest competitor, IWG is already working with over 80% of the Fortune 500 and
counts businesses including Amazon, Netflix, EY and Uber amongst its customers.
Companies of all sizes are shifting to flexible working to lower costs, improve employee retention and
lower their carbon emissions. The flexible workspace is expected to grow by 600% by 2023, when 30%
of all office space will be hybrid. We are growing our network faster than ever to keep up with demand
from customers as we work towards our goal of reaching 30,000 centres.
Carbon Neutral Workplaces
IWG’s purpose of helping everyone have a great day at work, while protecting people and the planet
is at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to supply all of our customers worldwide with carbon
neutral workplaces, and we have a strong climate action plan in place to help us achieve our objective
of Net Zero emissions by 2040.
Leading Employer Award
IWG is proud to be the recipient of a Leading Employer Award in both 2022 and 2023. Awarded
exclusively to the top 1% of employers, the accolade is testament to our diverse global workforce and
the role everyone plays in bringing our purpose, culture and values to life, every single day.
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