Procurement Specialist

**Job Title: Procurement Specialist
Location: Remote
SF41299**

**Compensation: £40,000 P/A**

**Role Type: Permanent**

We are looking to recruit a procurement specialist to join a high performing procurement and supply chain team who support a multimillion pound vehicle fleet contract with the MoD.

**Who we are looking for?**

This portfolio will consist of a combination of services/supply sub-categories including; Vehicle Leasing/Fleet Replacement Programme, Vehicle Hire, Quoted Rental, Automotive Consumables and/or Vehicle Servicing, Maintenance, and Repair & Inspection

**What will you be doing?**
- Leading procurement/contract renewal activity for your specific sub-category in accordance with Babcock International Group processes, procedures and delegated authority. Including management and administration of procedures such as Request for Information(RFIs), Invitations to Tender (ITTs) and resulting Contract negotiations and renegotiations.
- Acting as agent for the UK MOD, ensuring procurement activity is undertaken in full compliance with UK Public Sector Procurement Legislation and/or Crown Commercial Service Framework guidance.
- Ensuring appropriate flow down of head contract requirements and obligations through to the supply chain
- Development of Category / Supply strategies that consider customer requirements and pertinent external market factors.
- Development of Supplier Relationship Management plans for respective suppliers to generate value delivery and to identify, manage and mitigate risk.
- Proactively manage supplier underperformance in accordance with contract SLA's and KPI's to ensure delivery of service to our operational teams and end customer.
- Act as focal point for overall supplier account management and operational escalation.

**The experience you'll bring**
- Evidence of previously working in an end to end procurement role, leading tenders, negotiations, implementing new contracts and extracting value over the life of the agreement.
- Evidence of managing supplier performance against contract SLA's and KPI's periodically and delivering improvements
- Experience of acting as a focal point for relations with third party suppliers through Account Management or Supplier Relationship Management background.
- Undertaken procurements or contracting via Crown Commercial Service Framework Further Competitions (desirable)
- Member of Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (MCIPS) or working towards. (desirable)

**What a role with Babcock offers?**
- Starting salary of £40,000 per annum
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Competitive money purchase pension scheme with life assurance
- Access to make a difference for a sustainable environment for future
- Share ownership scheme
- A tailored personal development and training programme.
- Trusted and empowered to deliver and be your best.
- We are happy to talk about flexible working. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

**About Babcock**

For more than a century, Babcock the Aerospace and Defence Company, has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly-skilled engineering services. We help customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of theirmost critical assets within the four market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear, underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, unique infrastructure, and specialist training.

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