Global Sourcing Specialist

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom AECOM Full time

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

**Job Description**:
We’re the leader in our industry because of our people and our suppliers. Given the importance of the procurement and supply chain capability to our success, we want to take it to the next level so we’re investing in several way: we’re growing the team, developing world class processes and finding new and better ways to use technology and data.

We’ve created a new role at the core of our business to work with our consultants and suppliers on the most cutting-edge and innovative projects of our time, addressing the big challenges of today and shaping the built environment for generations to come. We’re looking for someone who has experience of procuring services, change programmes and embraces a data driven approach to procurement. The role will suit someone who is a results-orientated self-starter. The person will also enjoy working in teams comprising people from different countries and diverse backgrounds. The role reports to the Global Sourcing Manager.

**Key responsibilities** of the role:

- Support strategic sourcing projects across multiple countries by analysing demand and supply, contributing to the development of the business strategy, managing tenders and implementation to achieve cost savings and improve quality and service levels
- Support the commercial management of strategic contracts including the use of key performance indicators and escalation of performance issues where necessary
- Support the implementation of supplier relationship management with strategic suppliers to deliver greater value
- Review end to end processes to improve management of supplier base, channel management, contract management, enable and improve purchase order compliance and adoption, workflow and approvals, payment processes and data and analytics
- Utilise procurement technology and data to improve efficiency and achieve high levels of compliance to the procurement policy and processes, for example, through the implementation of the no PO no pay policy and the use of catalogues
- Support the development of change and project management plans

**Qualifications**:
**Specific technical knowledge/skills**:

- Sourcing tools and techniques
- Tender drafting
- Negotiation skills
- Commercial competence
- Change and project management tools and techniques including interpersonal and influencing skills
- Experience in procuring services, ideally engineering or environmental services
- Savings forecasting and recording experience
- Aptitude for exploiting technology functionality
- Experience in the construction, utilities, oil and gas, transport or professional services sector would be an advantage
- Experience of procure to pay systems, eCatalogues, eSourcing platforms and spend analytics tools would be an advantage
- Knowledge of Coupa and PowerBI would be an advantage
- Excellent verbal and written English
- Numerate with strong analytical skills included advanced MS Excel skills

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Degree in engineering, science, or business
- Nationally recognized professional certification (eg Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply or Certified Purchasing Manager or equivalent professional procurement and supply chain qualification). AECOM support study towards professional qualifications

Additional Information

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and commi

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