Procurement Lead

Job number: SP06027

Profession: Supply Chain

Location: Sellafield or Risley

Contract type: Permanent contract

Posting date: 23/09/2024

Closing date: 06/10/2024

Profession: Supply Chain

Join Our Team

Bonus: Up to 10% base salary per annum based on achievement of company targets and personal performance.
Location: Warrington or West Cumbria, with flexible hybrid working options available

A Unique Place to Grow Your Career

At Sellafield Ltd, we are harnessing our expertise; bringing together world-class skills and innovative technology to solve complex nuclear, infrastructure, and engineering challenges. By joining Sellafield Ltd, you join an amazing team of people, from all walks of life, where you can thrive in a connected, considerate culture of innovation, collaboration, and community; and play a significant part in the UK’s sustainable nuclear future.

In the next 5 years Sellafield Ltd is procuring £12bn of requirements from the supply chain, closing out strategic high value contracts all whilst implementing world class category management and supplier relationship approaches to provide value to the organisation.

Join a Multi-Award Winning Supply Chain Management Team Delivering a Breadth of Requirements Covering Billions of External Spend

The Supply Chain Function at Sellafield Ltd is responsible for the full commercial lifecycle delivery of circa £1.8bn supply chain spend per annum across a breadth of categories delivered on a scale found in few organisations. Our employees have opportunities to work across Construction, Manufacturing, Plant & Equipment, Research & Development, and Site Operations.

Through working with our business partners and the supply chain, we collectively make a significant contribution to the delivery of the Sellafield Ltd mission through the challenging and complex work we deliver.

As a top tier client organisation, there is a much greater opportunity to shape both strategic commercial and supply chain strategies for how we will work with our sub-tier partners in the Supply Chain. We are proud of being assessed as one of the top scoring commercial functions across the public sector by HM Government.

Our team have celebrated many successes through winning several national and international awards in our commercial delivery. We have won several national and international awards in our commercial delivery to showcase the high standards we work towards that are recognised. We’d love to keep evolving and learning from new recruits into the team

About the Role

We are looking for Procurement professionals to support within our Major Projects and Construction side of the business. As a Procurement Lead you will have experience not only managing complex and routine procurement, but also supply chain management activities including strategy development, price analysis, negotiation and contract placement, through to close out within an assigned sub category/portfolio.

Skills and Qualifications
- If you have some, but not all of the following experience, we’d still love to hear from you
- Working knowledge and practical experience of Category Management, Public Contracts Regulations and Terms and Conditions.
- Experience of building effective internal business and supplier relationships.
- Extensive experience working in procurement/supply covering a broad range of products and services.
- Extensive leadership and management experience.
- Highly self-motivated with thirst for knowledge and self-development.
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchase & Supply (MCIPS) or Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or equivalent professional membership.

Please Remember:

- In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, Sellafield Ltd reserves the right to close the advert early.
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Why Us?

Sellafield Ltd is a unique place to grow your career, offering a remarkable blend of role variety, job security, personal growth, professional development, and truly significant work. This is your opportunity to tackle some of the biggest challenges in the nuclear, infrastructural and engineering worlds and create a clean and safe environment for generations to come.