Procurement Product, Bid and Project Manager

Hitachi Vantara Corporation; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm based in Crawley, West Sussex is seeking a Procurement Projects Manager. This role involves optimizing procurement contributions to projects, engaging with engineering and other teams, and leading risk management initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and negotiation skills. This hybrid position requires on-site attendance 2 days a week and offers the flexibility to manage your work-life balance effectively.

Benefits

Market-leading training and development

Flexible working patterns

Mentorship opportunities

Qualifications

• Commercially astute with experience in various contracting models.
• Broad range of Procurement skills including Needs Analysis and Supplier Management.
• Experience in major development/manufacture subcontract project management.

Responsibilities

• Engage with internal teams to support project delivery.
• Manage risks and maximize opportunities as Procurement Risk Manager.
• Coordinate procurement activities to meet project requirements.

Skills

Advanced negotiation skills

Analytical skills

Presentation and communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Job description

About Us

A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there's something for everyone to get stuck into. And that's where you come in.

Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Our Opportunity

We currently have a vacancy for a Procurement Projects Manager (PPM) to join our team based in Crawley.

The PPM is responsible for representing Procurement as an integral part of our projects and bids, leading the resources of the function in order to optimise its contribution to producing competitive campaigns, bids and products, and delivering profitable projects.

This is a hybrid role, where our minimum expectation is that you will be on site 2 days per week - primarily from Crawley, with some travel required to our other locations in London.

Key Responsibilities

• Play a key role in the Forward Looking Commitment Review process to identify and execute opportunities
• Engage with Engineering, Planning, Manufacturing and Quality to ensure the release of procurement specifications, statements of work and requisitions to support project delivery
• Validate target costs and Project savings per work package
• Identify and mitigate risks and maximise opportunities in the role of Procurement Risk Manager for the project
• Co-ordinate the activity of all Procurement resources in support of the project to ensure work packages are executed achieving favourable conditions and consistency with technical, program, cost and performance (quality and delivery) requirements
• Engage and communicate efficiently with internal customers and stakeholder as necessary in executing work packages
• Represent the function in Program Reviews, ensuring all actions are allocated to the appropriate resource and executed in support of Program needs
• Liaise with the Program Manager to complete the relevant sections of the Program Report Pack
• Manage the Procurement Risk Register, ensuring appropriate mitigation actions are identified, undertaken and completed
• Take full Procurement Work Package Management responsibility within an Integrated Project Team
• Manage the Procurement costs through the lifecycle of the project
• Analyse costs of products and systems to identify focus areas or opportunities for reduction
• Contribute to inventory reduction initiatives through the application of effective planning and manage the stores ordering process to help support projects/complex schemes & installations
• Comply with export control guidelines and policies
• Manage corrective action and audit activities with suppliers where required
• To drive Social Value/ESG and optimisation in our projects, extracting value and innovation from our supply chain and pro-actively reduce risk and non-compliance to legislation (e.g. Bribery and Modern Slavery)
• Stakeholder Management, to proactively engage and manage the principle relationships identified above, representing the interests of the UK Procurement function

Report Key performance Indicators against Responsibilities and Tasks:

• In the bid and project phase roles
• Total Bid/Project Savings
• Pre and post mitigated supply chain risk values
• On time delivery of inputs to Bid Reviews
• Compliance to Operating Framework

Technical Skills and Experience

• Commercially astute with advanced negotiation skills and experience including differing contracting models
• Broad range of Procurement skills focused on: Needs Analysis, Design to Cost, Make-Team-Buy, Technical Interface Management, Sourcing Strategy definition, International Sourcing, Supplier Management, Risk and Opportunity Management, Subcontract Management
• Strong analytical skills
• Major development/manufacture sub-contract program/project management experience
• Broad technical and commercial understanding of the rail market
• Upstream purchasing techniques deployment, especially Co-Development, Co-Engineering, Value Engineering, Value Analysis, Functional Analysis, Cost Analysis

Human Skills

• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Exceptional Interpersonal skills to optimise cross-functional & cross-organisational working, engage key stakeholders and to work effectively with suppliers
• Well-developed organisational / prioritisation skills

What to expect

We aim to complete a two-stage interview process. Your first interview will be a virtual technical competency based interview. The second stage interview will focus on behavioural competencies and be held in person in our London or Crawley office.

Reasonable adjustments are available with prior notice so please let the TA partner know if this would be necessary. To find out what reasonable adjustments are, and what might be available, your TA partner will be happy to discuss this with you. We may close this role early if we quickly identify suitably strong applicants.

What We Can Offer

We\'re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you\'ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Thank you for your interest in Hitachi Rail. If your application is of interest, we will be in contact. Please do not hesitate to discover more about us and our latest jobs at https://www.hitachirail.com/careers .

Note: At Hitachi Rail, there is a place for everyone. We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and world view. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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