Senior Procurement Package Manager – Data Centre Construction

Linesight; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Linesight is seeking an experienced Senior Commercial & Procurement Manager to lead procurement, supply chain, and commercial delivery across major construction projects. This role focuses on driving construction package planning, tendering, contractor selection, and commercial governance to engage the right delivery partners.

You will shape procurement strategy, drive package awards, assess market conditions, manage tender processes, and provide reporting to project and client leadership.

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering procurement strategies and package awards on major capital projects.
• Strong experience managing competitive tender processes, bid evaluations, and contract negotiations.
• Excellent understanding of construction markets, supply chains, and contractor engagement strategies.
• Strong commercial judgement, stakeholder management, and decision-making capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement strategies and package planning across multiple projects.
• Develop and manage procurement schedules aligned with key project milestones.
• Oversee tendering activities, bid evaluations, contractor negotiations, and contract awards.
• Review tender returns and provide award recommendations against client budgets and programme requirements.
• Assess market conditions, contractor capacity, and supply chain capability to inform procurement decisions.
• Identify and mitigate procurement, commercial, and delivery risks.
• Build and maintain relationships with contractors, suppliers, and stakeholders.
• Provide procurement, commercial, and supply chain reporting to leadership teams.
• Ensure compliance with governance and procurement best practices.
• Lead, mentor, and develop procurement professionals.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Tender management

Contract negotiation

Supply chain governance

Job description

Overview We are seeking an experienced Senior Commercial & Procurement Manager to lead procurement, supply chain, and commercial delivery activities across major construction projects. This role is focused on driving construction package planning, tendering, contractor selection, and commercial governance, ensuring the right delivery partners are engaged to achieve successful project outcomes. This is an opportunity to play a key leadership role in delivering major projects by shaping procurement strategy, driving construction package awards, and ensuring supply chain partners are aligned with client, programme, and delivery objectives. Ideal for a commercially minded leader who can combine strategic thinking with hands-on procurement and project delivery.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Lead procurement strategies and package planning across multiple projects.
• Develop and manage procurement schedules aligned with key project milestones.
• Oversee tendering activities, bid evaluations, contractor negotiations, and contract awards.
• Review tender returns and provide award recommendations against client budgets, programme requirements, and project objectives.
• Assess market conditions, contractor capacity, and supply chain capability to inform procurement decisions.
• Identify and mitigate procurement, commercial, and delivery risks.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with contractors, suppliers, and key stakeholders.
• Monitor contractor and supplier performance to support successful package delivery.
• Provide procurement, commercial, and supply chain reporting to project and client leadership teams.
• Ensure compliance with company governance, contractual requirements, and procurement best practices.
• Lead, mentor, and develop procurement and commercial professionals while promoting a collaborative, high-performance culture.

About You

• Proven track record delivering procurement strategies and construction package awards on major capital projects.
• Strong experience managing competitive tender processes, bid evaluations, and contract negotiations.
• Excellent understanding of construction markets, supply chains, and contractor engagement strategies.
• Strong commercial judgement, stakeholder management, and decision-making capabilities.
• Ability to operate effectively across multiple projects within fast-paced and complex environments.
• Proven years' experience in procurement, commercial management, construction delivery, or related leadership roles.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

About Us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment.We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!