
Procurement Officer
EPUKI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Plymouth • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Working with the business to source and procure a wide range of required goods and services, ensuring optimal value for money within defined service and quality criteria
- Ensuring that the EPUKI procurement processes are followed to seek and evaluate competitive tenders and proposals for the supply of goods and service, which includes negotiating with suppliers on all commercial and contractual matters to achieve optimal levels of value versus risk
- Identifying opportunities to add improvements to the “bottom line” through cost savings or process change, whilst promoting continual improvement in all aspects of the Procurement function
- Managing supplier relationships and coordinating multiple stakeholder interfaces across EPUKI to ensure a consistent and collaborative approach.
- Identifying and implementing supplier improvement actions, operate 360 feedback processes and seeking to resolve contractual and supplier disputes as and when they occur.
- Understanding and adhering to the company and department standards, policies and procedures.
- Developing and maintaining strong and positive working relationships with internal stakeholders, ensuring that requirements are understood and addressed whilst seeking to promote the Procurement function as a positive enabler and an integral partner to the EPUKI business
- Operating and maintaining required systems to support and improve the Procurement function
- Working closely with the HSEQ teams to ensure that the EPUKI supply chain is safe and delivers quality goods and services
- Other procurement and supply chain tasks that are required from time to time.
Requirements
- Procurement experience in a comparable role - essential.
- Evidence of managing a procurement whole life cycle, ensuring that any value created in the negotiations stages is delivered through contract delivery - essential.
- Understanding of general contract law and working knowledge of key contractual terms - essential.
- Experience of drafting, negotiating and managing a variety of complex contracts and commercial risks - essential.
- Experience within the power generation industry, petro chemical or heavy engineering - desirable.
- Experience of SAP and e-tendering systems - desirable.
- Minimum CIPS level 4 achieved, working towards level 6 - desirable.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
procurementcontract managementnegotiationcost savingssupplier relationship managementcontract lawe-tenderingcommercial risk managementwhole life cycle procurementprocess improvement
Soft skills
stakeholder managementcollaborationcommunicationproblem solvinginterpersonal skillsteamworkadaptabilityleadershipnegotiation skillscustomer focus
Certifications
CIPS level 4CIPS level 6 (working towards)