Senior Procurement Consultant

5 months ago


BarrowInFurness, United Kingdom Gleeds Full time

**About The Role**:
**Senior Procurement Consultant**
- **Associate Director to Project Director level**:

- **Barrow-in-** **Furness (Hybrid working, mixture of home, office and client sites)**:

- **Permanent**:

- **Full time with flexible working and core hours**

**About this opportunity**
- Gleeds is a leading global property and construction consultancy. Independent since 1885, we are proud to deliver award-winning projects around the world. We are a gold standard investor in people employer, with our people at the heart of everything we do._
- Climate change and Sustainability is at the top of our agenda, we have been established within the energy sector for the past 40 years and have achieved significant growth in the past years as we contribute to a sector that will have trillions of pounds of investment over the next decade. Our teams are at the forefront of the change, managing life changing projects in Solar, Hydrogen, Nuclear, Renewables and Defence, and we want you to be part of that too._

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated** Senior Procurement** **Consultant** to join our team in **Barrow-in-Furness** on a **permanent **basis.

You will be an experienced consultant in our team with the responsibility of managing clients and a team as well as leading on your own projects with autonomy and scope to grow further. In this role you will be responsible for evaluating, recommending, and implementing industry best practice, strategic procurement systems, processes, and procedures with Energy/Nuclear/Defence/Central Government customers.

This can range from developing procurement/acquisition strategies and drafting procurement documentation to leading on market engagement and mobilising supply chains.

**About You**:
**What we are looking for in our next Senior Procurement Consultant**
- Experience of working in a strategic procurement environment.
- Experience of standard forms of contract, including the NEC suite, and the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
- Ability to develop procurement strategy within a project or programme context.
- Good communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Understanding key commercial principles and techniques.
- Previous working experience within relevant industry sector.
- Ideally you will be HNC, HND or Degree qualified in a Quantity Surveying / Cost Management, Construction Law, or similar / relevant discipline, or in some case applicants with an alternative background (e.g.: Engineering) may be considered.
- Professional qualifications and/or membership of the RICS or the CIPS is desirable. Progress towards this will be supported if not already attained.

**What we can offer you**
- Clear opportunities to develop and grow your career through training and further qualifications.
- Fantastic networking opportunities to grow your personal brand and expand your understanding of the industry.
- Generous holiday allowance plus the option to purchase additional days through the holiday purchase scheme.
- Highly competitive salary and the opportunity to increase this through continuous reviews.
- Employee Assistance Programme to ensure your health and personal well-being comes first.
- Our global travel scholarship programme gives you the unique opportunity to gain global experience.
- Flexible working arrangements to ensure you have a healthy work-life balance.
- Volunteering opportunities to engage with your local community or charitable organisations.
- Unparalleled support from central teams and a company that is recognised as a gold standard investor in people.

**About Us**:
**Be part of the extraordinary**

Every day at Gleeds, we influence the way people around the world live, work and travel. Delivering on the world’s most iconic projects for globally renowned clients, our teams solve complex problems that shape the future of the built environment.

One of the qualities we value in people, is the ability to think creatively about the solutions we offer to clients. With 71 offices spanning the Americas, Europe, MENA and Asia Pacific our ability to innovate and improve is a product of the varied backgrounds and experience of our people. We welcome new perspectives and ideas.

Above all, we believe that quality relationships sit at the heart of good business. We strive to be the people that seek to understand and bring people together. Wherever we are in the world, our aspiration is to leave a positive legacy for people and local communities, whilst living and breathing our three core values:

- We’re committed to our clients and our people
- We’re creative and realistic
- We combine professionalism with personality

**We recognise the importance of work/life balance and agree flexible working arrangements to suit each individual.**

**Gleeds is a Great Place to Work certified employer.



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