Senior Procurement and Supply Chain Manager- Sector

Costain; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Costain is seeking a Senior Procurement and Supply Chain Manager for the Sector to shape and deliver procurement and supply chain strategies across major programmes in the UK. This home-based, hybrid role requires close collaboration with sector heads, clients and the broader procurement team to maximise value and align with group objectives.

Responsibilities include driving category management, governance and ESG-aligned sourcing, while ensuring risk is managed and supplier performance is

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or a related field.
• Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply qualification or CPSM (or similar).

Responsibilities

• Lead development and delivery of robust procurement and supply chain strategies across major programmes.
• Collaborate with sector heads, key stakeholders and clients to align procurement with group strategies.
• Establish and maintain governance, risk management and performance measurement for the supply chain.
• Drive category management and supplier relationship management to realise value.
• Promote ESG, sustainability and social value through procurement decisions.
• Work with Central Procurement to ensure alignment and governance across functions.

Skills

Procurement strategy

Supply chain

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Contract management

Strategic thinking

Sustainability & ESG

Emotional intelligence

Analytics

Financial acumen

Education

Bachelor’s degree

CIPS / CPSM qualification

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Senior Procurement and Supply Chain Manager- Sector

Home Based, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

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Job Description

The Procurement and Supply Chain Management function is responsible for the interface with those third-party organisations who support our business whether that be for procurement of goods and services or the relationship management that underpins any such activities. They support project delivery teams across the sectors to ensure the strategic direction is identified and delivered.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the sector, driving efficiency, sustainability, and innovation within the procurement and supply chain functions.

The Senior Procurement and Supply Chain Manager is responsible for creating, leading, and implementing r obust Procurement and Supply Chain strategies for major programmes within their sector. This pivotal role involves close collaboration with Senior key Stakeholders, end clients, the Sector Heads of Procurement and the wider Procurement & Supply Chain Team. The key requirement for this role is to ensure that the sector’s Procurement and Supply Chain needs are met and where possible exceeded as well as ensuring alignment to group Procurement and Supply Chain strategies.

Developing a strategic approach for Procurement and Supply Chain Management across major programmes and ensuring that robust strategies are developed and implemented.

Ensure that responsible Procurement is delivered across allocated projects developing and supporting project delivery teams whilst remaining aligned to group P&SC targets and objectives.

Ensuring a robust and structured supply chain exists and is correctly deployed in support of both work-winning and successfully delivering projects / frameworks.

Support implemented category management approach within the sector to leverage spend and performance whilst staying aligned to group category management strategies.

Support the drive towards ESG, including SME development, social value creation, zero carbon solutions, promoting safety.Ensure alignment with Head of Sustainable Procurement [DM1] and Relationship Management on approach.

Promote collaboration between the business and the supply chain to unlock value through innovation and best practice where appropriate using the principles of ISO44001.

Ensure strong governance is followed and adhered to, ensuring the business is not exposed to unnecessary risk and that effective performance management of the supply chain is undertaken.

Work closely with the Central Procurement function to ensure compatibility between activities of respective functions.

Establish and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers, negotiating contracts and ensuring compliance with terms and conditions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ experience of working in a similar level role.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in the sector
• A clear and visible enthusiasm for driving improvement in best practice.
• Ability to demonstrate a level of emotional intelligence, capable of engaging with a wide-ranging stakeholder group.
• Extensive knowledge of supply chain management and procurement developing strategies to drive leverage and performance.
• Experience of collaborative working and implementing innovation.
• Adaptable and agile approach capable of taking accountability for change initiatives.
• Strong negotiation and contract management skills.
• Commitment to sustainable procurement practices and knowledge of key principles
• Ability to communicate vision and strategic direction
• Highly commercial, with a proven ability to use Procurement skills to unlock value for the business.
• Strong numerical, financial and data analysis skills.
• Excellent Microsoft Office suite proficiency (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or a related field.

Member Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply qualified or a similar Professional certification in procurement (e.g. CPSM) .

About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do. Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview .

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