Procurement Officer

**General information**:
**Legal company **:Framatome is a major international player in the nuclear energy market recognized for its innovative solutions and value-added technologies for designing, building, maintaining, and advancing the global nuclear fleet. The company designs, manufactures, and installs components and fuel for nuclear power plants and offers a full range of reactor services.
With 14,000 employees worldwide, every day Framatome's expertise helps its customers improve the safety and performance of their nuclear plants and achieve their economic and societal goals.

Framatome is owned by the EDF Group (75.5%), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI - 19.5%) and Assystem (5%).

**Reference number **:2023-11356

**Publication date **:1/10/2023

**Job details**:
**Category**:
SC - SUPPLY CHAIN - SCA - PURCHASING

**Job Opening Title**:
Procurement Officer

**Job type**:
Non fixed term

**BU description**:
Installed Base BU is in charge for Framatome's nuclear engineering and services for operating nuclear plants, for new build projects and for installations in decommissioning phase.

The Installed base BU has more than 60 years of international experience in all types of technologies on more than 380 reactors worldwide.

With 4,600 employees in 15 countries, the Installed Base BU has a strong identity and its vision is to:
“Deliver innovative products and services by putting our high-level skills to work to guarantee throughout the world a safe and competitive, low carbon source of energy.”

**Job description**:
As our Procurement Officer you will be responsible for managing the Framatome Ltd supply chain covering supplier interface, procedures, and process to procure goods and services from the approved supply chain.

A specialist in sourcing and procurement of goods and services to fulfil projects in line with company, contractual financial and quality requirements.

**Objectives**:
The Procurement Officer is responsible for ensuring that the company has a very clear strategy on the purchasing goods and services, and maintaining the approved supplier data base, in consultation with other company departments. Procurement activities must be delivered in line with our processes and procedure to meet procurement specific objectives.
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This role is based in the Avonmouth (Bristol, UK).**:

- ** For this role we are offering a salary of £35,000- £40,000 per annum plus benefits**:

- ** 37.5 working hours per week**

**The role of the Procurement Officer includes, but is not limited to, the following aspects**:

- Create and implement procurement strategies that are innovative, cost-effective, and incorporate the growing complexities and challenges within industry;
- Ownership and maintenance procurement procedures and process;
- Define objectives related to the performance of the procurement process and procedures;
- Preparation of data to support the efficiency of the procurement function to meet the company KPI in relation to the objectives;
- Build and maintain long-term relationships with suppliers in the industry;
- Understand tenders, projects’ needs and proposed adapted strategies to get quotes meeting these needs (deliver and manage RFQs);
- Request quotes from the supply chain to support the Tender Team and process;
- Compare proposals for price, schedule and specification;
- Advise and support the Tenders and Projects team on the best route to market;
- Work closely with vendors to create and submit vendor pricing and schedule suggestions during the pre-tender, tender and project phases of various contracts;
- Lead transformation initiatives aimed to build procurement organisational capabilities and improve procurement efficiency;
- Management of logistics, as well a weights, dimensions, etc;
- Preparation of forecasts on changes in the market or price as well as on the companies own demands;
- Maintain supplier approval list and procurement processes in line with Quality and HSE functions
- Management of Purchase Orders
- Insure all T&C’s and contract requirements are back to back with all suppliers.
- Placement of orders (with the support of other functions within Framatome) on the supply chain, that are of strategic importance to the company and projects, this may include high value orders or orders that have complex commercial, financial or technical requirements.

**Profile**:
**Qualifications**:

- Experience as a Procurement Officer / Buyer in a manufacturing and / or construction environment.
- HND or Degree educated in Procurement, business, supply chain, logistics or any or any other related field.
- Qualified or working towards CIPS qualification to Professional Level
- MCIPS Chartered or working towards Chartership.

**Technical Skills**:

- Experience of project management and strategic outlook.
- Knowledge of contracts including NEC3 and FIDIC, invoicing, and negotiation terms.
- Experience of highly regulated industries.
- Ability to analyse data from tables and f