Senior Partner Manager

City, Manchester
MAINSTAY RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS LTD
Senior Partner Manager
Location: Home Based (England) with National Travel (Excluding London)
Salary: Up to 62,000 plus 3,600 Car Allowance and Benefits

The Opportunity

Our client is a leading provider of facilities management and estate services, delivering maintenance, infrastructure and property support across one of the UK’s largest and most complex estates. Working alongside a nationwide network of specialist service partners, they deliver everything from reactive maintenance and planned works through to compliance and lifecycle projects, helping keep critical facilities operating safely and efficiently. Following continued growth, they’re now looking to appoint an experienced Senior Partner Manager to strengthen their commercial supply chain function. This is a key role responsible for managing strategic supplier relationships, driving commercial performance and ensuring service partners consistently deliver against contractual and operational expectations. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong background in service procurement and supplier management to join a well-established organisation offering genuine autonomy, national exposure and excellent long-term career prospects.


The Role

You’ll manage a portfolio of service partners across a national operation, ensuring suppliers deliver against agreed KPIs, commercial objectives and service standards. Working closely with procurement, commercial and operational teams, you’ll oversee supplier performance, support tender activities, develop strategic partnerships and identify opportunities to improve quality, efficiency and value across the supply chain. This is a home-based position with regular UK travel, allowing candidates to be based anywhere in England outside of London.


Key Responsibilities

• Manage strategic relationships with service partners across multiple contracts.
• Monitor supplier performance against KPIs, SLAs and contractual commitments.
• Lead supplier reviews, governance meetings and performance improvement plans.
• Support tender processes, supplier evaluations and commercial negotiations.
• Identify opportunities to improve supplier performance, reduce costs and manage risk.
• Work closely with operational and commercial teams to support consistent service delivery.
• Oversee supplier onboarding, governance and ongoing contract compliance.
• Produce performance reporting and commercial insight to support business decisions.
• Build strong working relationships with both internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
• Travel nationally to support supplier engagement and contract performance.

Essential Requirements

• Experience within Procurement, Commercial or Supplier Relationship Management.
• Strong background procuring services rather than goods.
• Previous experience within Facilities Management or another service-led environment.
• Experience managing supplier performance and commercial relationships.
• Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
• Commercially aware with excellent organisational skills.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

Desirable

• Facilities Management procurement experience.
• Defence, public sector or regulated industry experience.
• CIPS or similar professional qualification.
• Experience using eProcurement or contract management systems.

Benefits

• Up to 62,000 salary.
• 3,600 Car Allowance.
• Home-based role with national travel.
• Excellent long-term career development.
• Opportunity to influence supplier strategy across a large national FM operation.