Senior Manager, Procurement - Events

ABOUT LIV GOLF

HISTORY

Founded in 2021 and officially launched in 2022 with the eight-event LIV Golf Invitational Series, 2025 was our third 14-event season as the LIV Golf League.

The format respects golf’s history and traditions with updates for modern-day sports fans; four days, 72 holes, no cut, shotgun start, and simultaneous Team and Individual competitions, offering a faster tournament that drives engaging storylines and offers an immersive fan experience. The League’s award-winning events, each wholly owned and operated by LIV Golf and broadcast to over 900 million homes across 200 international territories, showcase world-class competition happening at LIV Golf’s 14 global events. Music entertainment, food, live concerts, family-friendly activations and offer a festival-like atmosphere. A two-time winner of the World’s Best Golf Event from the World Golf Awards and a Sports Business Awards Finalist for Sports Event of the Year, our signature hospitality, inclusive atmosphere, quality food and beverage offerings, post-play concerts have helped LIV Golf have helped build record-breaking attendance at events worldwide.

LIV Golf continues to expand its reach by bringing the League to new and returning markets featuring some of the most iconic venues in the world. It has also introduced free agency to professional golf, integrating end-of-season player promotion and relegation, team trades and off-season roster movement that drive year-round fan engagement, embraced by many of the world’s most popular sports.

Away from the entertainment on the course, LIV Golf is dedicated to enhancing the well-being of the communities it visits through its ground-breaking social impact and sustainability strategy. Named a 2024 Most Impactful award winner by Front Office Sports for utilising its platform to make a positive impact on and off the course, in local communities around the globe, the League is committed to giving back and improving the world through golf.

ROLE OBJECTIVE/THE TEAM

The Senior Manager, Procurement will be responsible for leading proactive, high quality, innovative and intelligence led category management across all areas of events, broadcast and production spend, they will help support the event management team across the company’s supply of relevant products and services in order to effectively support all LIV Golf’s global events.

The Senior Manager, Procurement responsibilities will include strategising to find the best value outcomes for our customers, teams and LIV golf as whole, driving key programmes to deliver savings, reduce risk, improved margins and supplier relationships.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES/WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Work with business Heads to learn and understand business requirements and build procurement strategy moving forward

• Devise and use effective sourcing strategies to identify suppliers and initiate business partnerships

• Negotiate with external vendors to secure advantageous terms

• Working in conjunction with the legal team, to examine and test existing contracts, looking for efficiencies

• Track and report key functional metrics to improve effectiveness and capture value add

• Collaborate with key persons to ensure clarity of the specifications and expectations of the company

• Foresee alterations in the comparative negotiating ability of suppliers and clients

• Expect unfavourable events through analysis of data and prepare control strategies

• Perform risk management for supply contracts and agreements

• Control spend and build a culture of sustainable year on year savings

REQUIRED SKILLS/WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR FROM YOU

• Proven experience as a Senior Procurement Manager or Head of Procurement handling large scale events

• Knowledge of sourcing and procurement techniques

• Good knowledge of supplier or third-party management software

• Excellent interpersonal skills, both written and verbally, including the ability to communicate confidently and professionally across all levels of the business

• Experience with collecting and analysing data

• Skilled negotiator

• Strong leadership capabilities

• Self-motivating/self-starter – confident working both in teams and independently

YOU WILL THRIVE HERE IF

• Build strong supplier relationships while still holding firm on performance, service levels, and value

• Navigate competing priorities calmly, and can influence without formal authority across Finance, Legal, and business leads

LIV Golf is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees.

We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on age, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, race, ethnicity, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations where we operate. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organisation, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeships.

LIV Golf Investments makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.