Procurement Specialist

1 month ago

Swanley, Kent, United Kingdom United Living Group Full time

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Procurement and Supply Chain professional to join our team at United Living Group. As a key member of our procurement team, you will be responsible for driving commercial and added value benefits through negotiation of best value Group Frameworks/Agreements aligned with the Group Supply Chain Strategy.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive commercial and added value benefits through negotiation of best value Group Frameworks/Agreements aligned with the Group Supply Chain Strategy, including Preferred Supplier Agreements (PSA), Plant Agreements (PA), Preferred Manufacturer Agreements (PMA), Third Party Agreements (TPA), Sub-Contractor Frameworks (SCF), Blue Collar Agency Recruitment, Permanent Recruitment, and Consultants.
  • Make recommendations and business cases to the Group Procurement & Supply Chain Manager, Director, and other stakeholders for new group agreements and frameworks, including presentation of data, recommendation papers, and presentations where appropriate.
  • Ensure that products to be procured via Group Frameworks are compliant with all legislative/statutory requirements.
  • Develop and execute contracts with key supply chain partners identified as best value via the strategic procurement process.
  • Manage strategic relationships with key supply chain partners through a regular series of structured/formal review sessions and information exchange, supported by BU stakeholders where appropriate, driving consistent approaches across the business and significantly improving quality and service levels.
  • Police the frameworks at Strategic level to ensure they are adhered to and not usurped, tackling slippage appropriately with supply chain and business units.
  • Work with all business unit teams to ensure identified direct and third-party rebate opportunities are maximised and recovered.
  • Liaison between business units and Preferred Suppliers & Manufacturers to ensure that Value Enhancement, Innovation, and Saving opportunities are maximised.
  • Procurement & Supply Chain representative to ensure alignment with PMO activities, including development of the dashboard.
  • Manage the applications for rebate payments and work with the finance teams to ensure monies are paid to invoiced terms.

Supply Chain

  • Development of our Sub-Contractor Database and alignment of our database with third-party data sources.
  • Collation of various data sources, aligning them with our PMO dashboard, and analysis of trends for risk management and to identify improvement opportunities, sharing and communicating relative information with the wider business.
  • Contributes to and develops our performance measurement culture and processes, ensuring the process and understanding of why it's required is embedded within the business, and the tangible metrics (CR, %NR, Programme, Financial Health, Safety, Environmental, ESG) and subjective metrics (project team scoring) are mined/collated accordingly and used strategically across the wider business.
  • Links performance measurement to our supply chain databases and PMO dashboard and analyses information accordingly to provide early warnings and opportunities to the wider business.
  • Leads on strategic supply chain engagement via a variety of mediums, including social media, engagement events, annual conference(s), and builds a recognition & reward incentive/awards.
  • Embeds a formalised performance improvement process aligned to performance measurement and relationship maturity matrix, and works with the wider business to ensure a consistent tangible approach is adopted and measured.
  • Measure and improve our supply chains maturity in terms of ESG.
  • Be a leader in bringing innovation to the wider group by aligning our group business(s) with supply chain innovations, trialling new products and solutions, and developing business cases where appropriate for wider application/use.

General

  • Identification of Supply & Demand pressures proactively, engaging the supply chain, and ensuring risk mitigation strategies that have been developed and utilised, sharing information with the wider business.
  • Form and issue Procurement & Supply Chain Advice Notes to the Group.
  • Continuously seeks opportunities to add value and drive efficiency.
  • Drive process automation and use of data within our own teams and the wider business.
  • Strategic 'project work' as assigned aligned or identified.
  • Works collaboratively with stakeholders to ensure a best value procurement culture is embedded and adopted within all parts of the business both strategically and operationally.
  • Engages all parts of the business, ensuring mutual support and understanding of respective objectives with business units and central functions.
  • Supports Procurement & Supply Chain integration of new acquisitions as directed.
  • Develop and deliver improved communications internally and externally.
  • Supports the business as required with strategic procurement expertise.
  • Ensure that United Living SHEQ standards, operating processes, company policies, and all legislative requirements are understood, implemented, and adhered to at all times.

Qualifications

  • > 10 years' experience in Procurement & Supply Chain roles in the Construction sector, with additional sector experience also a preference.
  • Construction and/or Business-related Qualifications, including NVQ, BSc, BA, MSc.
  • MCIPS.

Additional Information

  • Proficient IT skills, particularly in Excel, PowerBi, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
  • Ability to handle and analyse large volumes of data quickly and accurately, utilising information to identify risks and opportunities.
  • Utilises data to support decisions and business improvement and able to represent data accurately to back up business cases & recommendations, both orally and visually.
  • Strong negotiation and analytical skills.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Collaborative and forward thinking.
  • National travel required to Group Offices, Projects, and Supply Chain.

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