Strategic Procurement Lead – FM & Projects (Remote)

OCS Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

OCS UK & Ireland is seeking a procurement and supply chain professional to support the contract across FM projects. The role is embedded with our client team and focuses on strategy, procurement governance, and supplier performance.

You will manage supplier relationships, drive cost savings, and lead end-to-end procurement activities with a view to improving value for money while ensuring risk and programme governance. The position is homebased with national travel.

Responsibilities

• Ensure we have a good supply chain, readily available to rely on, that delivers excellence to our customer sites with the right governance around the relationship to ensure performance standards are met.
• Ensure that all procurement activity is undertaken in line with the overall organisational strategy; category plan; account specific procurement plan and procurement best practice.
• Develop the procurement account strategy in partnership with the account team and take ownership to lead the delivery.
• Identify, select, develop and manage new supply chain to support future business through a rigorous evaluation process, ongoing performance measurement, contract review and benchmarking
• Negotiate and deliver cost savings through negotiation. Evidence value for money that can be demonstrated to our customers.
• Initiate a risk based approach to supplier tendering, selection and award, building in commercial analysis of tenders / negotiations to ensure caveats / assumptions are well managed; the correct financial model is used, and any KPIS / SLAs / Programme risk is negotiated and back-to-back with supply chain.

Job description

OCS UK & Ireland is seeking a procurement and supply chain professional to support the contract across FM projects. The role is embedded with our client team and focuses on strategy, procurement governance, and supplier performance.

You will manage supplier relationships, drive cost savings, and lead end-to-end procurement activities with a view to improving value for money while ensuring risk and programme governance. The position is homebased with national travel.