Job Description

Job title: Procurement Lead

Location: Multiple Sites (hybrid)

Contract Length: 6 months

Hours per week: 37.5

Pay Rate : Negotiable on experience

Overview

This role is a key part in a newly established Project Procurement team with a focus on growth and future supply chain design and spend and transforming our regional procurement practices. The new team forms part of the UK & Ireland (UK&I) region's Operations, Innovation & Improvement team.

In this role you are expected to pro-actively reach out to the business drive involvement in bid capture stages as well as live bid support. You are expected to develop and execute procurement strategies and plans as an integrated member of capture and bid teams. Not only will you support critical pursuits & bids on an individual basis producing necessary bespoke inputs as required, you will also support make/buy strategies to inform and build supply chain solutions for common/aggregated requirements derived from longer-term growth pipelines.

You will require strong influencing skills to help the function become an integral part of win work and get involved early as the go-to expertise for engaging third parties. As well as

The role will work closely with the regional Win Work team to ensure involvement in our most important pursuits & bids, and help identify and deliver improvements in processes, governance, guidance, and templates regarding effective use of suppliers during the Win Work cycle.

Your role

Deliver and execute partnering and supply chain strategies in identified priority pursuits & bids across the region.

Draft partner MOUs, Teaming /Workshare Agreements at campaign/bid stages as required.

Be proactive in seeking involvement in major bids across the Core markets and embed yourself as an integral part of campaign and bid teams.

Support make/buy strategies on individual bids.

Influence the "in delivery" strategy/proposed roles and responsibilities and estimates for the management of the supply chain on individual bids to drive consistency of approach in delivery.

Actively drive change to ensure early and consistent engagement of the function in campaigns and win work through actively demonstrating added value as well as through recommendations in structural changes to ways of working.

Work with multi-functional teams along the end-to-end supply chain process to ensure we select and subcontract with the right suppliers and appropriate checks are done.

Work with the appropriate commercial teams on new contracting models where supply chain forms an integral part of our client offerings.

Help to shape the supply chain strategy in relation to future client offerings and targeted growth pipeline.

Act as key point of contact for advice & guidance around Procurement and supply chain in Work Winning.

Train, develop and advise bid and delivery teams in on supply chain best practice.

For successful bids lead on contractually mobilising external partners /suppliers in support of programme teams - be the conduit from tender stage.About you

To be successful in this role, having the ability to quickly develop strong relationships with senior leaders across the region is key, demonstrate the value-add and being proactive and agile during execution is considered critical. A robust understanding of procurement and supply chain management, including supply chain design, business partnering, supplier relationship management and bidding is required.

The successful candidate will be required to implement supply chain design into tangible agreements/outputs at the different stages of project life cycle, including campaigns, bids and mobilisation.

An engineering background would be highly beneficial given the nature of the organisation/its service offerings.

If you have the necessary technical expertise and contracting organisation experience, have a drive for improvement, want to actively shape the direction of the Project Procurement function and make a real difference in an organisation where supply chain is recognised to be instrumental to deliver on our future strategy and successful growth, this role is for you.

Significant amount of experience and proven track-record in Procurement & Supply Chain in contracting organisations (preferably in work winning).

Significant experience of drafting partnering /teaming agreements and supply chain subcontracts in a contracting organisation.

Experience in analysing clients ITTs, extracting requirements, writing RFQs, managing competitive tenders, supplier selection, and complex negotiations.

Strong Stakeholder Management experience

Experience in leading the end-to-end procurement aspects of the role

Solid understanding and experience of contracting, commercial models, workshare agreements and strong negotiations skills are required. NEC 4 contracts are used heavily across the business and hands-on experience of NEC 4 Subcontracting in the Professional Services and Works space in a contracting organisation is therefore essential.

Strong collaborator, Self-starter with excellent communication skills

Ability to deal with ambiguity and conflicting demands from stakeholders on a regular basis. To apply send your CV in the first instance

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