Procurement Manager

My client is a leading global engineering consultancy and are currently recruiting for Procurement Managers, Senior Procurement Managers and Associate Directors to join on a permanent basis in their closest office (Multiple locations). (hybrid working arrangements 3 days in the office per week).

Proven experience within a similar engineering consultancy role, NEC contract expertise, end client role or major infrastructure project experience is essential.

Role – Procurement Manager & Senior Procurement Manager & Associate Director

Location – London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Glasgow, Newcastle, (3 days onsite per week)

Type - Permanent

Salary – £40,000-£90,000 + bonus + benefits (depending on role applied for)

Your Purpose:

• Account management: from directing the team to enabling collaboration and providing career growth opportunities.
• Business development: increasing our share of client spend, accessing higher-margin work, cross-selling our services and locations.
• Project leadership: being responsible for directing and managing the project team and delivering portfolios and projects, with competence in project commercial accountability.
• Technical leadership: from providing stakeholders with specialised advice to broadening your legal and technical knowledge and participating in training initiatives.
• Team building and management: creating and managing sector-focused teams and mentoring junior colleagues.

Required:

• Degree qualified.
• MRICS, MCIPS or MCIOB or working towards one of these qualifications (or similar).
• An awareness of procurement delivery models and routes to market to procure a variety of services, works and supply contracts.
• To give advice to clients to help them determine their procurement and commercial strategies singularly or part of a wider business case. Suitable procurement experience on major programmes and complex projects – these could be within infrastructure, building, engineering, manufacturing, oil and gas etc.
• Effective deployment of market information in strategy development and understands and interprets market information appropriately and deploys it effectively in strategy development.
• Knowledge of collaborative forms of procurement development such as Alliances, Partnering, ECI and Multi lotted Collaborative frameworks.
• Previous experience engaging with suppliers and undertaking Early Market Engagements. (Desirable).
• Knowledge of construction forms of contract such as NEC, JCT, FIDIC.
• Experience of working within the requirements of Public Sector regulations these could include the Public Contracts Regulations, Utility Regulations and/or Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations and their post Brexit forms.
• Able to deliver construction cost analyses and benchmarking reports including identification of cost drivers and their proportionate impact.
• Experience planning, developing and delivering and managing procurement activities to deliver contracts and frameworks for works, goods and services contracts. Including prequalification, tender and negotiation of contracts, procurement governance and gateway management and contact award recommendations using procurement processes and systems.
• Previous experience of market engagement, Supply-chain analysis and mapping, to inform procurement and commercial strategies.
• Experience developing and preparing tender and enquiry packs and work with stakeholders to prepare evaluation plans and the development of requirements.
• Strong communication and experience working with multiple stakeholders including legal, finance, engineers and programme teams.
• Experience of working in a client focused environment - working closely with clients, collaboratively with other consultants and contractors.
• Ability to devise and implement commercial policy and solutions to a wide range of clients and stakeholders.
• Ability to take personal responsibility in dealing with clients and stakeholders while striving to exceed their expectations.
• Ability to manage personal workload.
• Excellent document drafting and analysis skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills.
• Experience in developing bespoke contractual models.

Desirable:

Experience in any of the following:

• Developing Commercial Governance Procedures, Processes and Systems.
• eSourcing and/or eEvaluation Systems.
• Category Management.
• Developing Packaging/ Lotting Strategies. Running and managing dynamic purchasing systems/ auctions – public and/ or private sector.
• Contract Negotiation – in a Competitive Dialogue/ Competitive Negotiation setting.
• Commercial Management.
• Contract/ Project Management.
• Key Account Management (KAM).
• Risk and Opportunity Management.

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