Procurement Specialist

3 months ago

London, United Kingdom Public Sector Resourcing Full time

**Procurement Specialist - Inside IR35**

**Contract Term: 18 Months**

**Contracting Authority: AWE**

**Location: Aldermaston or London - Mainly Remote**

What if you could work on something that you can’t testbut cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge.

That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day: delivering important work, in support of the most important mission - keeping the nation safe.

AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.

**As a Procurement Specialist, your main responsibilities will be**:
Category Management
- Contribute to the development and drive the implementation of the Category Strategy to deliver cost effective category solutions and business models for assigned categories.
- Supplier base management and supplier classification (Preferred Supplier List - PSL), securing competition in the supplier base.
- Deliver Category targets and KPI’s for assigned spend categories.
- Implement ways of working according to AWE Category Management Framework.
- Business Intelligence and Benchmark including business intelligence and supplier market analysis, benchmark potential suppliers and market insight to support category development.
- The Category Specialist, with the Category Team, is responsible for securing and tracking cost reduction, contract management and continuity of Supply Chain.
- Strategic Sourcing
- Prepare & execute the RFx process in collaboration with stakeholders including supplier evaluation and selection, supplier negotiations (costs and contract)
- Contribute to the long-term business ensuring competitive initial cost and total cost development in the product and service life cycle and maintenance of the specific supplier contract for products and Services

Contract Management
- Assist in the preparation and execution of Contract which is appropriate to the scope, value and risk outlined in the sourcing strategy, ensuring all relevant stakeholders have contributed and approved as appropriate.
- Support the administration of the Contract in accordance with all of the terms and conditions ensuring contract compliance.
- Assist in appropriate management of commercial risks, forecast spend and change impacts with key

AWE stakeholders
- Supplier Relationship Management.
- Suppliers segmented and managed (quality, performance, risk) in accordance with the AWE SupplierRelationship Management Framework.
- Monitor and mitigate supplier risks (including CoC, Environmental & Health and Safety as well as dependency on AWE and AWE dependency on the supplier), make corrective action plans for the identified risks.
- Supplier Strategies for key suppliers within assigned spend categories.
- Stakeholders Collaboration
- Secure stakeholders involvement and participation in category strategies, sourcing activities and supplier relationship management activities and share SCM category strategies, PSL, supplier performance etc.

**Essential**:

- Public Sector procurement experience
- Understanding of pre-contract procurement
- Willingness to learn
- Ideally some construction experience

AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.

**Disability confident**

**We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.**

**Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.**- Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas._

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