Senior Waste Procurement Consultant

WSP Global Inc.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP Global Inc. in the United Kingdom seeks a consultant to provide technical procurement advisory services to waste infrastructure and environmental services projects, leading delivery teams and contributing to proposals and business development.

You will mentor junior staff and support client relationships while delivering high-quality outcomes. You will work on projects covering procurement exercises, tender documentation, contract extensions, and business cases for new service models, with

Qualifications

• First degree in a relevant subject, preferably in science, environment or engineering.
• Pertinent experience of environmental and waste services or infrastructure procurement projects for local authorities.
• Experience developing (or making a substantial contribution to the development of) several of the following documents: Technical specification; Method statement submission requirements; Performance management framework; Invitation to tender; Pricing schedule; and Payment mechanism.
• Experience of competitive dialogue and/or competitive procedure with negotiation procurement procedures
• Understanding of resources and waste legislation and policy in the UK
• Experience of working with Council’s Officers
• High levels of written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to deal proactively with senior colleagues
• Excellent time management skills, including the ability to respond to requests for outputs at short notice.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects by applying our internal procedures ensuring that projects are well monitored, delivered on-time and within budget with high client satisfaction ratings.
• Act as technical expert providing input to a range of resources and waste projects. This will include taking responsibility for the drafting of whole reports (with input from others) or contributing to aspects as directed.
• Attend meetings with clients from inception stage to final reporting. Such meetings may be attended by a range of stakeholders and clients including Council officers, members and frontline staff, private sector representatives from a number of sectors and other organisations such as WRAP and Defra.
• Lead and support the development of proposals ensuring they are of a high quality, clear and competitive.
• Develop and deliver services by implementing methodologies that are innovative, robust, time and cost effective and client focussed; and
• Build and maintain relationships with existing clients, potential clients and other networks to maintain and increase the profile of the company and to develop work pipelines.

Education

First degree in a relevant subject

Job description

WSP Global Inc. in the United Kingdom seeks a consultant to provide technical procurement advisory services to waste infrastructure and environmental services projects, leading delivery teams and contributing to proposals and business development.

You will mentor junior staff and support client relationships while delivering high-quality outcomes. You will work on projects covering procurement exercises, tender documentation, contract extensions, and business cases for new service models, with