Principal Consultant SCM

Orion Engineering Services Limited; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the energy sector is seeking a Principal Consultant SCM on a temporary basis in London. The role involves strategic and operational procurement, ensuring compliance with corporate governance, and managing contracts and supplier relations. This position offers a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility in work location.

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement activities and contract management.
• Ability to establish procurement strategies and manage agreements.
• Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational procurement and contract management.
• Ensure compliance with corporate governance and regulations.
• Manage performance and relations with stakeholders and suppliers.

Skills

Strategic procurement

Contract management

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Risk management

Job description

We have a current opportunity for a Principal Consultant SCM on a temporary basis for an energy operator. The position will be based in London with a hybrid system allowing several days a week WFH.

1. 12 months

Responsible for providing strategic as well as operational procurement and contract management in line with category strategies. The process includes ensuring compliance with corporate governance, mandates, laws, and regulations through development and documentation of scopes, specific procurement strategies, sourcing, tendering, evaluation, contract negotiations, approvals, award, contract management, handling of claims and warranties, and purchasing. Effective project and stakeholder management through collaboration and clear roles and responsibilities with customers, decision makers, suppliers, and partners. The outcomes are commercial and effective contracts and procedures serving timely, cost-effective, and sustainable supply of goods and services to the business.

Requirements:

1. Procurement activities related to establishing and managing agreements. Ensure safety, security, and sustainability in procurement.
2. Establish agreement: Establish Specific Procurement Strategies according to business need, relevant Category Strategies, and market input. Produce and issue request for information (RFI).
3. Establish bidders list.
4. Prepare evaluation procedures.
5. Establish, issue, and manage enquiries.
6. Handle bid clarifications and conduct bid clarification meetings.
7. Plan and conduct negotiations.
8. Perform evaluation and agreement award, including partner approval.
9. Agreement start-up activities, including:
   1. Implement contract(s) in all systems (Plan-to-Pay)
   2. Give input to risk-based follow-up plan, to ensure agreement understanding and compliance
10. Manage performance and relations, including:
    1. Safeguard correct use of the contract and follow up of KPIs (Key Performance Index)
    2. Ensure SOX-control
    3. Handle contractual issues, change in agreement, including Variation order requests (VOR), variation orders (VO), amendments, Options, Request for rate adjustments
    4. Perform cancellation and termination of contract
    5. Perform internal and external stakeholder management as well as supplier relations management

For further information about this position, please apply.

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.