Procurement Manager

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Job description

Role: Procurement Manager
Digital/Non-Digital: Non
Contract Length: 18-month
Location: Aldermaston 1-2 days on site per week, WFH/Remote
IR35: Inside
Client qualify for GIS: Yes (Disability Confident Scheme and/or Armed Forces Covenant)

Job Description

• Develop and implement Category Strategy for specific categories, balancing short and long-term objectives to meet business strategy and efficiencies (savings) in alignment with business stakeholders.
• Support and execute strategic sourcing activities in line with approved category strategy and preferred suppliers list, including the execution of the RFx process, supplier evaluation and selection, contract negotiation, business award and contract handover to the business, in compliance with the business requirements as well as client policies and directives, including Code of Conduct and Code of Business Ethics.
• Support the execution of Supplier Relationship Management for some key suppliers, including supplier segmentation, contract management, supplier risks identification and mitigation and suppliers performance.
• Monitor and drive supplier performance, ensuring that suppliers meet contractual obligations using the Supplier Performance Card or specific contractual Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) and secure commercial compensation for supplier contractual noncompliance.
• Assist with the development of supplier value including planning and preparation of external management review meetings with segmented suppliers (Management Business Reviews and Executive Business Reviews) in accordance with client Supplier Relationship Management framework and the agreed supplier strategy.
• Drive operational efficiency in alignment with the Supply Chain Processes and Strategies as well as performance of all activities in line with Supply Chain targets and the Category Group team targets.

Essential:

• Extensive complex procurement experience
• End to end procurement process.
  Contribute to the development and drive the implementation of the Category Strategy to deliver cost effective category solutions and business models for assigned categories.
• Implement ways of working according to client Procurement Management Frame-work.
• Business Intelligence and Benchmark including business intelligence and supplier market analysis, benchmark potential suppliers and market insight to support cate-gory development.
• Strategic Sourcing
• Assist in appropriate management of commercial risks, forecast spend and change impacts with key client stakeholders
• Supplier Relationship Management.
• Suppliers segmented and managed (quality, performance, risk) in accordance with the client Supplier Relationship Management Framework.
• Utilites, Construction or Electrical background experience dealing with procurement
• NEC3 & NEC4 experience

Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.

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