A industry-leading civil engineering business, providing innovative engineering solutions across a wide range of sectors including maritime, flood risk management, defence, energy, water and regeneration, is seeking a Senior Buyer / Procurment manager for the SW region
based in the South West where the opportunity to work on sites in and around Plymouth as regional office in Exeter.
Role purpose
To establish, maintain and improve the control and effectiveness of the buying function in line with Company policy and Business objectives
Key accountabilities
- Develop bid list and complete due diligence of proposed Subcontractors for associated Tender/Procurement packages for sign of by Project Team and Procurement Manager
- Develop Tender/Project Procurement Strategy in collaboration with the Project Team, identifying risk and opportunities and leveraging to obtain best value.
- Develop and Manage in collaboration with the Project Team, the Tender/Project Procurement Schedule
- Collate Tender/Project sub-contract and materials enquiries for assessment and use by Estimator/ Site Management team.
- Manage the return of timely quotations, complete full best value analysis and propose recommendation in conjunction with Project Team for approval.
- Lead package negotiations with supply chain
- Arrange and lead Supplier/Subcontractor meetings incl mid-tender, post tender and final negotiation meetings.
- Arrange and chair Pre-let Meeting prior to Subcontract award.
- Internal Governance checks , ensuring the correct use of documents (i.e order templates, REQ forms etc.)
- Chair regular Project Procurement reviews for both Subcontract Packages and Materials ensuring completeness of programme dates, Tender allowances, order values and meeting notes/actions
- Support Projects ensuring Subcontract/Supplier performance meets their requirements and act as mediator to help deliver a positive outcome should a Supply Chain dispute arise
- New Supplier/Subcontractor onboarding including all due diligence
- Have a good knowledge of local supply chain, capacity and capability.
- Have an awareness of business objectives and internal policy and apply to Project Procurement where required
- Work in line with HSEQS procedures and objectives.
- Manage the implementation of supply chain / supplier agreements including Mini Fwks and preferred supplier agreements
- Working with Supply Chain to build relationships, obtain market intelligence and market innovation/product development
- Performance management of Supply Chain including 360 reviews, lesson learned etc
- Ensuring and maintaining correct document management & storage.
Experience
- Experience of working within heavy Civil Engineering and working in Procurement
- Holding or working towards a CIPS Professional Qualification
- Demonstrate sound knowledge of Civils/Construction industry and Procurement experience in subcontract and supplier markets in Construction sector
- Be computer literate and able to work with words. Excel Teams plus bespoke accounting, database and document storage packages.
- Capable of working on their own initiative with minimal supervision
- Competent Sub-contract knowledge of different type of forms of Contract
- Extensive knowledge of trades and materials in Civil Engineering / Construction
- Good commercial and analytical skills with proven capability of managing workload proficiently
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