Corporate Procurement Lead
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| Job Type | Permanent |
| Location | Snowhill Birmingham - WFH |
| Area | Midlands, UK |
| Sector | High Speed Rail |
| Salary | £90 - 101,220 + Pen (6/12) + 25 hols |
| Start Date | |
| Advertiser | Charlton Recruitment |
| Telephone | 07881022741 |
| Job Ref | HS1018 |
| Job Views | 618 |
- Description
- Corporate Procurement Lead
I am looking for a Corporate Procurement Lead, working on the new build of a High-Speed railway project in the UK. The Procurement Lead is responsible for the procurement of multiple corporate procurements and may include complex projects or multi-million-pound projects, ensuring procurement strategies and plans are developed and fulfilled.
Reporting to the Corporate Procurement Director you will head up the corporate procurement team managing HS2 corporate procurement which is largely made up of professional services and IT. Individual procurements vary in vale from £10k - £100m and the department procures about £500m a year managing in excess of 200 procurements, therefore high volume alongside high value. The corporate procurement team you will be managing a team of 18 procurement professionals - 3 Procurement Business Partner, Procurement Managers Assistants & Apprentices.
Challenges of the role – the department is a high performing settled team however face significant challenges including – 30% unplanned procurement, which, causes time pressures and complex stakeholder management to CO level – managing expectations and prioritising.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Develop and lead a team (direct and indirect reports) to deliver technical and commercial efficiency opportunities for an assigned portfolio, ensuring that objectives and success criteria are identified and delivered in line with business lead expectations
- Support the achievement of governance approval and assurance of all procurement deliverables as defined within the Integrated Management System, ensuring procurement documents are compliantly developed to agreed timelines
- Lead the identification and implementation of innovative procurement approaches to the delivery of projects in order to enhance levels of service and minimise costs, ensuring compliance with the overall HS2 Ltd strategy, whilst seeking to safeguard contractual and commercial risk
- Provide expert procurement insight to enable HS2 Ltd to make informed choices about the way in which its expenditure is deployed
- Lead the development of positive relationships with HS2 Ltd Directors/Senior Managers and internal stakeholders to raise awareness of the benefits of a strategic approach to procurement
- Support the Procurement Operations Director in managing the expectations of key stakeholders (e.g. Internal Directors/Senior Managers, External Parties such as DfT, CCS and Cabinet Office), prioritising workload as required
- Identify, develop and prepare business cases, reports and committee items and present to the appropriate internal and external stakeholders (including HS2 Boards and Committees)
- Drive the delivery of HS2 Ltd’s strategic themes and goals into all procurement strategies, tender documents and evaluation processes, leading to demonstrable measurement of performance through the life of the contract(s)
- Promote the importance of procurement across business units and best practice through continuous improvement, so that procurement processes are effective in delivering HS2 Ltd’s objectives
- Advise all stakeholders on applicable EU and UK procurement legislation and developments, applicable government policies and procurement routes; to ensure that all HS2 Ltd activities comply with regulations and subsequently ensure the risk of supplier challenge to any procurements within the team is minimised
- Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work, supporting and complying with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures related to EDI
Skills
Key Requirement of Role:
The successful candidate:
- will have some experience managing procurements through the OJEU process although a mix of private and public sector is a plus,
- will have experience managing complex professional services procurements,
- have consummate stakeholder management skills,
- have managed a corporate procurement budget of at least £100m and managing a team of at least 8 procurement individuals.
Skills
- Ability to manage and prioritise multiple work streams at different stages of development, simultaneously and meet agreed deadlines
- Ability to produce and present documents and reports to a variety of audiences, including internal stakeholders at various levels in the organisation
- Ability to develop, implement, realise and embed innovation, continuous improvement, value for money and benefits realisation within the processes and documentation, that form the foundation of the successful delivery of procurements
- Ability to influence key stakeholders, at all levels, both internally and externally, using objective argument based on analysis
- Ability to operate with autonomy, and where required engage collaboratively across a matrix environment
- Analytical and decision-making skills, supported by commercial awareness and negotiating skills for complex propositions
- Ability to develop, lead and support a team, through complex challenges; coaching staff in their career development to achieve their full potential; enabling the team to meet their agreed objectives and ability to display and encourage leadership and management skills
- Ability to define EU procurement life-cycles for specific projects and articulate procedures and policies
- Ability to develop meaningful metrics for procurement selection purposes, incentivisation and contract performance measurements
Knowledge
- Knowledge of EU procurement directives, with awareness of government initiatives and policies with the ability to assess relevancy and defend applicability
- Knowledge of global supply markets relating to infrastructure projects
- Understanding of the supply market for indirect services in the public sector
- Knowledge of procurement related government initiatives and policies with the ability to assess relevancy and defend applicability
- Knowledge of the Utilities Contract Regulations
- Understanding of the concept of spend analysis to achieve efficiencies
Type of experience
- Experience of procuring contracts ranging in value, delivering savings to a public sector organisation through effective management of procurement processes
- Experience of developing processes with governance areas to accurately reflect the Regulations, whilst also ensuring a streamlined process is adopted
- Experience of leading a team to deliver value for money and whole life value propositions
- Experience of leading the development of procurement strategies, through workshop development, translating this to a procurement strategy and delivering this through assurance and governance
- Experience of leading procurements via early contractor involvement, collaborative and/or incentivised contracts with different pricing and risk models
Behavioral Competencias
- Inspirational Leadership: Demonstrating leadership flexibility, motivating and inspiring people from diverse functions and cultures.
- Execution: Stretching the performance of people with a wide range of skills and capabilities.
- Influence: Cross-matrix influencing, using a range of interpersonal approaches to persuade people with differing perspectives and interests.
- Collaboration: Collaborating across boundaries, to establish reciprocal relationships and alliances across the organisation.
- Direction: Co-ordinating cross business teams, creating a shared sense of purpose and keeping diverse teams focused on the same HS2 goals.
- Business Judgement: Ensuring values for money, making judgements on what will ensure commercial viability, appropriately balancing risk and return.
- Innovation: Inspiring differentiation, innovating and encouraging early adoption of new ideas and ‘pushing the boundaries’
- Growing Talent: Fast-tracking talent, taking risks with growth opportunities for high potential performers to ‘raise their game.’
Decision making
The post holder will have the following decision-making responsibilities:
- Procurement initiation and Procurement strategy plans
- Pre-qualification documents
- Invitation to Tender documents
- Contract Award Recommendation reports
- Contract documents
