Procurement Officer

We have a great opportunity for a Procurement Officer to join our highly successful Energy business; primarily supporting our solar farm and other Energy Renewable projects.

Bouygues Energies & Services design, install and commission large scale solar PV farms for our clients. Supplying renewable energy from solar power plants enables local communities to reduce costs and reduce their carbon footprint. It also means they can provide off-grid power in remote areas that can be sold back to the grid or used locally at a cheaper price than grid-supplied energy.

**Key Activities**
- To be involved in procuring, tendering and negotiation of all materials, consultancy works, and subcontract works for building solar farms and EPC (Energy Performance contracting) projects
- Develop a national and global supply chain partners to suit the demand
- Ensure compliance with objective budget, project requirement, technical specification, safety, health and environment requirements of materials and subcontract works
- Provide support with contract management including the preparation, negotiation, execution, compliance, storage, and communication across all departments
- Support with the supplier relationship management of the supply chain
- Provide procurement advice to project team, with an emphasis on operational support
- To provide day to day support to the site operations team, following up procurement enquiries and problem solving with supply chains
- Assist the Procurement Manager and Senior Procurement Officer when required
- Develop key commodity management analysis to enable to carry out tenders efficiently and develop expertise on the dedicated categories (by following the 7 key steps of Category Management)
- Consistently monitoring the trade specific marketplace to ensure awareness of pricing trends, risks and opportunities
- Experience in supply chain management is essential
- Knowledge of operational purchasing and supply practice, policies and procedures
- Good level of numeracy with experience in cost analysis
- Strong negotiation skills and proven experience of tendering and contracting practices
- MCIPS qualifications (or working towards) is desirable
- Facilities Management experience is beneficial

**Our excellent benefits package includes**
- Generous holiday allowance
- Company share scheme
- 2 paid volunteering days a year
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Employee assistance programme

**Why Bouygues E&S Solutions?**
- Bouygues Energies & Services Solutions (BYES) is an international business operating in over 25 countries and employing over 13,500 people. The company is part of the Bouygues Group - a global brand employing over 130,000 people in 80 countries within the construction, engineering, civil works, energy services, telecommunications, and media sectors.
In the UK, Bouygues Energies & Services is a leading provider of facilities management (FM), energy services, highways, and complex engineering solutions across the public and private sectors.
- We place a strong emphasis on continual development, both professional and interpersonal. Currently over 2% of the Company’s payroll is spent on Learning and Development activities. We have our own international and local training centres, delivering technical and management courses.
- Bouygues Construction UK was awarded the Top Employers United Kingdom and Top Employers Europe certification. We are also proud to have been awarded Investors in People Gold, which demonstrates our commitment to our people.

**Be Yourself**
- Here at Bouygues we value the creativity and innovation that our diverse workforce brings, encouraging people from all backgrounds, particularly those from underrepresented communities to apply. By joining us, you will be inspired to bring your full self to the workplace, speak up and share your unique ideas. You will also have an opportunity to join our employee led diversity & inclusion communities such as WeLink (women network), Encompass (LGBTQ+), Kaleidoscope (BAME), Disability and Wellness peer support network, Parents and Carers network.