1st Executive Ltd

1st Executive Ltd in London seeks a Procurement Manager for Professional Services to lead sourcing initiatives and drive supplier engagement. The role combines strategic procurement with hands-on analytics and stakeholder collaboration. The role offers hybrid working with three days in the office and a competitive salary in the £65k-£70k range, plus benefits. Applicants must be based in the UK with right to work.

Procurement Manager 70k - Professional Services £65000 - £70000 per annum + hybrid working/corporate benefits Salary: upto 70k p/a + benefits Location: London - hybrid working 3 days p/w in office If you're a driven procurement professional with Professional services procurement category experience and you're hungry for more, this is the opportunity where you won't just support procurement transformation you'll help build it. Be part of the creation of something ambitious. That means fresh thinking, new processes, smarter analytics, stronger supplier partnerships - and room for you to make your mark early. This Role: This is joining a procurement function in growth mode - shaping frameworks, influencing stakeholders, and driving measurable performance improvements across the business. You'll work closely with Category Managers and senior procurement leaders; Expect to: Lead sourcing projects primarily across Professional Services category Pro-actively drive and seek new commercial opportunities Influencing stakeholders Drive spend analytics and performance insights Build category tools and templates Develop commercial acumen fast What We're Looking For Procurement experience within Profesional Services category (ie Consultancy, tax or audit etc) Strong negotiation and stakeholder communication skills Passionate about working in an pro-active ambitious, changeable, people focussed business Confident communicator with an engaging personality and an inquisitive nature Strong analytical skills and confidence working with data sets and extracting insights from procurement data Knowledge of sourcing principles and supplier management Enjoys working in fast paced environment, autonomously What You'll Gain Exposure to senior procurement leadership Ownership of sourcing activity and supplier engagement Real influence in a growing, evolving procurement function Accelerated development in analytics, commercial strategy and stakeholder management A culture that values initiative, collaboration and bold thinking Applicants must be based in the UK to commit to hybrid working requirement and hold current/valid UK RTW.

1st Executive Ltd in London is seeking an Interim Senior Software Lead to drive backend Kotlin development for a cloud-native issuance platform used in global capital markets. You will focus on event-sourced, real-time systems while collaborating with product and business stakeholders in a fast-paced XP environment. Hybrid working in London is offered with strong emphasis on coding quality and scalable design.

Interim Senior Software Lead Kotlin £1200 p/d Duration: 6-month Contract Location: London (Hybrid) Client: Investment Banking Technology An Interim Senior Software Engineer to join a high-performing front-office engineering team delivering a next-generation cloud-native issuance platform for global capital markets. This platform is replacing a legacy bookbuilding system used by investment banking teams worldwide and supports high-volume, real-time workflows during critical trading windows. The engineering environment is collaborative, fast-paced, and strongly aligned to Extreme Programming (XP) principles. The Role The lead Software Engineer will have senior-level experience in Kotlin and Event-sourcing, and business communication skills. You will leverage your Kotlin and event sourcing expertise within the team, as well as communicating with business users, without proxy. This is a senior engineering position focused on designing, building, and evolving backend services in Kotlin within a modern cloud-native architecture. You will work closely with engineers, product specialists, and business stakeholders to deliver resilient, scalable solutions that support real-time issuance and allocation workflows. The role places strong emphasis on: Mob programming Collective ownership Required Skills & Experience Extremely senior-level Kotlin experience Event-sourcing, and business communication skills Ability to leverage Kotlin sourcing expertise with the team and communicate well with business users Strong commercial experience building backend services using Kotlin Deep understanding of event-driven and/or event-sourced architectures Extensive experience with XP engineering practices Strong cloud engineering experience within GCP environments Experience working within regulated or enterprise-scale environments Comfortable supporting high-availability production systems This is an opportunity to work on a business-critical platform used globally, within a modern Cloud-native engineering environment. Note: Applicants must hold current and valid UK Right to Work