We're looking for a Procurement Manager to join our Natural Resources team, within a commutable distance to Falmer. In this role you'll be procurement lead during the mobilisation and ongoing operations of our new 7 year, c£1bn framework with Southern Water.
Location: Falmer, East Sussex
Contract: Permanent, Full Time - flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know
Responsibilities
As a Procurement Manager you'll be working within the team, supporting them with the sourcing, negotiation and governance of goods and subcontract procurement.
Your day to day will include:
- Ensuring that procurement policies of both Kier Group, and Framework are adhered to.
- Supporting Procurement / Commercial Lead in developing Framework procurement strategy.
- Ensuring Subcontractors and suppliers have the relevant Health and Safety Accreditation and Sustainability and Carbon reduction policies that align to Kiers standards.
- Negotiating with Subcontractors and Suppliers to ensure that specific clauses in our client contracts are flowed down to ensure that contractual risks & KPI's are balanced and work with budgets / estimating outputs to assess selection criteria.
- Developing and own preferred suppliers & strategic partnerships to deliver best value for all parties, ensuring that these service providers can be relied on to deliver high quality, value for money services.
What are we looking for?
This role of Procurement Manager is great for you if:
- You're an experienced professional responsible for strategic project level decisions.
- Experience within the infrastructure/utilities sector including civil engineering and MEICA requirements.
- Hold a degree relating to the industry and a chartered status or appropriate professional qualification.
- Knowledge of SAP SRM and Jaggaer systems.
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here .
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here .
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