Strategic Sourcing Leader for Control Systems
4 weeks ago
Procurement Heads is revolutionizing the procurement landscape at National Gas, a leading player in Britain's energy system. With over 23m homes and 200,000 businesses relying on their skilled colleagues, National Gas aims to lead the way towards UK net zero. To achieve this ambitious goal, they are transforming their procurement approach by implementing a new operating model that prioritizes business partnering, supplier relationships, efficiency, and value.
The Strategic Sourcing Leader for Control Systems will play a pivotal role in shaping the company's procurement strategy, driving strategic sourcing initiatives, and managing supplier relationships for Control System replacement programmes as well as instrumentation, control, electrical, and telemetry spend.
Key Responsibilities:- Category Strategy Development: Develop and maintain category strategies aligned with business goals, focusing on delivering value for National Gas, supply chain, and customers.
- Expertise and Knowledge Management: Acquire, maintain, and develop expertise, knowledge, and information to support continuous improvement in category performance from relevant internal and external sources.
- Maximizing Category Value: Maximize knowledge and scale of existing category strategies within the wider procurement team to drive maximum end-to-end project lifecycle value.
- Delivery of Category Initiatives: Deliver a diverse range of category initiatives from your Category Strategy working collaboratively within business and supplier stakeholders.
- Sourcing Event Management: Manage the delivery of sourcing events for your Category to ensure on-time delivery of our capital plan and delivery of business commitments to value, including quality, cost, security, social value, and sustainability.
- Project-Specific Sourcing Strategies: Develop project-specific sourcing strategies for high-value, high-complexity Emissions projects.
- Lessons Learned and Continuous Improvement: Work closely with business stakeholders to capture lessons learned, identify, and implement continuous improvement opportunities, including causes of compensation events and how these can be addressed in the future.
- Sustainable Procurement and Modern Construction Methods: Champion sustainable procurement and adoption of modern construction methods, considering the benefits of aligning with the Government Construction Playbook.
- Proven experience in category management, strategic sourcing, or procurement, with a track record of continuous improvement and delivery of results in various commercial settings.
- Good understanding and experience of key practices in construction and experience in procurement associated with large construction projects (c. £50m+). Good level of knowledge of construction contracting suites, including NEC contracts predominantly used at National Gas.
- Experience in personally conducting category activities, including analysis, requirement definition, sourcing planning, supplier management, and competitive tendering, in line with the agreed strategy.
- Estimated Salary Range: £65,000 - £80,000 per annum, depending on experience.
- Bonus Scheme: 15% bonus.
- Pension Scheme: Pension to 18%.
- Holiday Entitlement: 36 days holiday, including bank holidays.
- Flexible Benefits Package.
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