An exciting opportunity has become available working as a Procurement Manager, focussing on Assets, for a large Transport company.
This is a permanent, full time, hybrid role, 3 days in the office per week.
As a Procurement Manager, you will have responsibility for individual elements of the company’s procurement activity, working with departments throughout the business to ensure that they follow best practise and deliver best value for the business through procurement activity. The areas you will focus on are Assets, Maintenance and Construction, although you will be required to help the wider teams as and when required. Establishing, monitoring, and enforcing SLAs while supporting internal stakeholders. Supporting the Senior Procurement Manager and Head of Supply Chain and part of the integral Supply Chain team holding key responsibilities associated with delivery and success of each procurement, as well as the delivery of wider strategic objectives.
Responsibilities
- Manage timely delivery of procurement activity with the companies’ procuring departments in a devolved procurement environment.
- Build a culture of long-term saving on procurement costs and measure savings and value delivered.
- Ensure procurement activity is efficiently sequenced by maintaining a forward workplan that ensures appropriate internal and external resources are available to support procurement and business objective delivery.
- Run tenders, evaluate bids, and make recommendations, based on commercial and technical factors.
- Maximise value for money through procurement activity and improve the businesses overall commercial and financial wellbeing.
- Prepare non-technical pre-tender documents, manage tenders, make procurement outcome recommendations & execute contracts.
- Collaborate with departments to ensure clarity of the specifications against expectations of delivery. Review and challenge non-technical aspects of specifications and contracts to ensure they are robust and give appropriate remedies and recourse to ensure that business requirements are met.
- Measurement of savings and value delivered.
- Liaise with Finance to ensure they are aware of, procurement financial status and have early warning of potential overspends.
Experience & Skills
- MCIPS Qualified
- Proven success working as a Procurement Officer or Procurement Manager
- Strong understanding of both public and private sector procurement, including the application of Utilities Contract Regulations.
- Extensive experience around procurement relating to: Construction, Minor works, Civils, Mechanical/Electrical/Plant, Planned preventative/Cyclical/Reactive maintenance, Facilities Management, Telecoms, etc.
- Knowledge of a wide range of contract conditions.
- Experience guiding non procurement practitioners through the procurement process to deliver both business needs and positive commercial outcomes and advising on contractual matters.
- Experience drafting of both precedent and bespoke agreements.
- Strong negotiation skills and commercial awareness.
This is a permanent, full-time role. Paying £50,000 per annum based on experience. A hybrid role with 3 days per week in the office
