Strategic Procurement Specialist

Siemens Energy; Warwick; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Private medical cover

Cycle-to-work scheme

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Siemens Energy’s Aeroderivative Gas Turbine Procurement Team is seeking a Strategic Procurement Specialist to build a resilient, sustainable supply chain for critical gas turbine components and services. You will lead strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, and contract management to ensure reliable delivery, cost competitiveness and quality.

You will collaborate across a global matrix organisation with internal stakeholders and suppliers to plan negotiations, review market trends and secure

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in strategic sourcing or commodity management within a complex, global environment.
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or CIPS qualification.
• Strong commercial, contractual and project management acumen, with proven negotiation skills.
• Excellent Excel skills for data analysis, reporting and supplier performance monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Implement commodity strategies and define local or regional material field strategies for non-pooled commodities, aligning with wider pooling opportunities where relevant.
• Plan negotiations, define awarding strategies and prepare sourcing board approvals to support transparent and robust procurement decisions.
• Negotiate local, regional and multi-site supplier contracts, including pricing, delivery schedules, payment terms and wider contractual conditions.
• Manage assigned supplier relationships, contribute to the EcoSystem commodity strategy and support the development of a preferred supplier list.
• Analyse market trends, supplier performance and procurement data to improve sourcing strategies, reporting and decision-making.
• Identify and mitigate procurement risks, encourage early supplier involvement in cost reduction activities and ensure contractual terms are aligned with business requirements.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Supplier negotiations

Contract management

Excel data analysis

Stakeholder management

Global matrix organisation

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree

CIPS qualification

Tools

Excel

Job description

Siemens Energy and Siemens Gamesa are becoming Omterra. "We energize society" by supporting our customers to make the transition to a more sustainable world, based on innovative technologies and our ability to turn ideas into reality. With nearly 100,000 employees around the world, we shape the energy systems of today and tomorrow.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Warwickshire

Warwick

Company

Industrial Turbine Company (UK) Limited

Organization

Gas Services

Business Unit

Distributed

Full-time

Experience Level

Professional / Experienced

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Strategic Procurement Specialist within Siemens Energy’s Aeroderivative Gas Turbine Procurement Team, you’ll help build and manage a competitive, transparent and sustainable supply chain for critical gas turbine components and services. Your work will focus on strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, contract management and supplier performance, helping Procurement support reliable delivery, cost competitiveness and quality.

You’ll work closely with internal stakeholders, strategic commodity management teams and suppliers across a global matrix organisation. This will include planning negotiations, preparing sourcing decisions, reviewing market trends, managing supplier relationships and making sure contractual terms support business needs.

This is a role for someone who combines strong commercial judgement with the ability to work in a technical manufacturing environment. You’ll need to be comfortable using data, engaging suppliers early on cost reduction opportunities and balancing price, quality, delivery and risk in a complex supply base.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Implement commodity strategies and define local or regional material field strategies for non-pooled commodities, aligning with wider pooling opportunities where relevant.
• Plan negotiations, define awarding strategies and prepare sourcing board approvals to support transparent and robust procurement decisions.
• Negotiate local, regional and multi-site supplier contracts, including pricing, delivery schedules, payment terms and wider contractual conditions.
• Manage assigned supplier relationships, contribute to the EcoSystem commodity strategy and support the development of a preferred supplier list.
• Analyse market trends, supplier performance and procurement data to improve sourcing strategies, reporting and decision-making.
• Identify and mitigate procurement risks, encourage early supplier involvement in cost reduction activities and ensure contractual terms are aligned with business requirements.

What You Bring

• 5+ years’ experience in strategic sourcing or commodity management within a complex, global environment.
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or CIPS qualification.
• Strong commercial, contractual and project management acumen, with proven negotiation skills.
• Excellent Excel skills for data analysis, reporting and supplier performance monitoring.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience working across a global supplier base and matrix organisation.
• Familiarity with component manufacturing processes and quality standards would be highly valuable.

About the Team

Our Gas Services division offers low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. We bring together gas turbines, steam turbines, generators and digital service solutions under one roof. Through modernization, digitalization and innovative service offerings, we support customers worldwide in improving reliability, efficiency and sustainability.

The Aeroderivative Gas Turbine Procurement Team supports the sourcing and supplier management activity needed to keep critical turbine programmes moving. The team works closely with commodity management, engineering, quality, operations and suppliers to secure the right commercial agreements, manage supplier performance and support a resilient supply chain.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably.

The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world’s electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy:

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fuelled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character, no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

• 26 days holiday, increasing to 29 days with time served.
• Access to a flexible benefits portal, including private medical cover and cycle-to-work schemes.
• Career development and continuous learning opportunities.
• Opportunity to work within a global procurement environment supporting aeroderivative gas turbine operations.