Job Description

Delivery of Strategic Procurement and Supply Chain Strategies, aligned with the Group Procurement & Supply Chain Strategy - delivering improved commercial terms, added value and procurement & supply chain transformation aligned to business growth

Job Specifics:

Procurement

• Drive commercial and added value benefits through negotiation of best value Group Frameworks / Agreements aligned with the Group Supply Chain Strategy, including:

o Preferred Supplier Agreements (PSA)
o Preferred Manufacturer Agreements (PMA)
o Third Party Agreements (TPA)
o Regional and National Sub-Contractor Frameworks (SCF)
o Blue Collar Agency Recruitment

• Make recommendations and businesses 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
• 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 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 team to ensure monies are paid to invoiced terms

Supply Chain

• Development of our Sub-Contractor Database and alignment of our database with data sources
• Collation of various data sources, aligning them with our PMO dashboard and analyse 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 its 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

General

• 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
• Develop and deliver improved communications internally and externally
• Supports the business as required with strategic procurement expertise
• Ensure that SHEQ standards, operating processes, company policies and all legislative requirements are understood, implemented and adhered to at all times.

Criteria

• Construction, Business and/or Procurement related Qualifications (or studying towards), including CIPS, BSc, BA, MSc
• Proficient IT skills particularly in Excel, PowerBi, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook
• Utilises data to support procurement decisions and business improvement and able to represent data accurately to back up business cases & recommendations - both orally and visually
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Collaborative and forward thinking

The salary is indicative and dependent on experience. Details on the overall package are to be discussed if selected for interview

Linear Recruitment