Senior Procurement Specialist

2 days ago


Luton, Luton, United Kingdom Leonardo UK Ltd Full time

The role of a Senior Sub Contract Buyer at Leonardo UK Ltd offers a wide variety of experiences and is both exciting and challenging in its nature. This senior procurement specialist position represents a unique opportunity for a high-calibre candidate to thrive and grow within the Surveillance & Protection Technologies (S&PT) sector.

This contract and supply chain director will involve actively working in a matrix organisation structure supporting a variety of complex assignments within both the BriteCloud and Sensors Integrated Project Teams (IPT's) in the S&PT sector. The main focus for this role will be the management of high-value and high-risk sub-contract commitments that have commonality in complexity across the two portfolios, both tangible and intangible in their nature.

The individual will need to demonstrate successful subcontract management by developing and managing robust contracts which mitigate commercial risk and address lifecycle factors whilst fostering and maintaining supplier relationships.

Job Responsibilities

  • Support the delivery of sub-contract management activities and other procurement-related services which may be required by the business.
  • Lead some relationships with Strategic Leonardo suppliers, holding Supplier Business Reviews, ensuring performance management, risks, and impacts.
  • Provide procurement governance in business winning and programme delivery with minimum supervision.
  • Engage the supply chain to ensure back-to-back costings to bids, proposals, and flow-downs are included.
  • Accountable for some Procurement activities within the Britecloud and Sensors IPT.
  • Negotiate agreements and risk/reward mechanisms for business case models.
  • Translate customer/project requirements into commercial documents, particularly pertaining to the design, development, and production of bespoke complex electronic systems and sub-systems.
  • Understand mechanisms of mitigating risk associated with entering into commercial agreements.
  • Placing and expediting current account.
  • Working in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the flow down of appropriate terms and conditions from customer contracts to enable compliance with contractual obligations and mitigate commercial/contractual risks.
  • Identify solutions for complex areas of potential risk/opportunity e.g. sub-contract risk, IPR, liability, and exchange rate exposure etc.
  • Construct and lead the contracts and supply chain management Life Cycle Management (LCM) deliverables.
  • Management of Export Compliance, restrictions, and third-party rights for all procured items and services.

Requirements

  • Qualified to degree level or equivalent or significant relevant work experience (studying towards or achievement of MCIPS is preferred).
  • A good understanding of the Commercial and Legal Aspects associated with contracting within the Defence/Aerospace industry or a similar market sector.

Salary: £60,000 - £80,000 per annum depending on experience, plus benefits including hybrid working arrangements.



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