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Job Type | Permanent |
Location | Snow Hill |
Area | Midlands, UK |
Sector | High Speed RailCivils & Rail |
Salary | £65 - 71,160 + Pen (6:12) + Health + 25 Hols |
Start Date | |
Advertiser | Charlton Recruitment |
Job Ref | HS8593 |
Job Views | 505 |
- Description
- High Speed 2 the new multi-billion-pound high-speed railway to directly link the city centres of: London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. Working within the ‘Construction’ Procurement team who are responsible to deliver the procurement activities required to deliver procurement packages for the stations, railway systems and line of route infrastructure required to build the new high-speed railway. Working on Phase 2 so Procurement strategy experience is useful – ways of delivering, contracts knowledge – innovative ways of delivery.
The Senior Procurement Managers will take the lead for individual construction procurements valued £50m - £1bn and will be responsible coordinating and project managing the procurement process managing senior level stakeholders and smallprocurement team(1 or 2 others). The Senior Procurement Manager will be leading the procurement strategy for their procurements – pulling in lesson learnt from phase 1, leveraging other major construction programme (Cross Rail) coming up with new innovative ways to deliver, reduce risk and save money.
Genuinely interested in receiving application from a range of backgrounds including client organisations, consultancies and Tier 1’s – not everyone needs to have a specific OJEU background
Duties and Responsibilities
- Responsible for significant elements of the operational procurement for the relevant package(s), ensuring that these are aligned with other similar packages and the overall HS2 objectives, including the delivery of wider benefits.
- Supporting the achievement of governance approval and assurance of all procurement deliverables as defined within the HS2 Procurement Handbook. Following approval of the relevant Category Plan, this includes responsibility for developing key components of the necessary Pre-qualification and ITT documentation to agreed timelines and ensuring that these achieve relevant approvals and assurance to permit release of this documentation.
- Responsible for managing the procurement evaluation processes for the relevant package and ensuring that these achieve relevant approvals and assurance to allow appropriate short-listing and contract award.
- Ensure HS2’s procurement activities are undertaken in compliance with EU and UK legislation whilst driving a process that will become a benchmark for future projects around the world.
- Manage a Procurement Manager and Procurement Officer, ensuring their output is quality-assured at its source
- Ensure procurement reporting and management information is provided accurately and on a timely basis to synch with HS2 business reporting rhythm and cycles.
- Present to boards and committees, as required, in order to respond to challenge and scrutiny
- Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work activities, supporting and complying with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
Skills
- Analytical, commercial and negotiating skills for complex propositions.
- Skilled in compiling robust tender and commercial documents
- Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy
- Ability to develop, implement, realise and embed innovation, value for money and benefits realisation within the process and contracts that will form the foundation of the successful delivery of the relevant package.
- Ability to provide stakeholder focus, giving priority to engage with and understand requirements, facilitating others’ understanding, to ensure these can be discussed and met as closely as possible.
- Ability to act as a mentor to others to help and support effective performance and development
- Ability to tailor communication to appeal to, include and engage with different audiences using pertinent argument and influencing techniques.
- Ability to generate a range of ideas or solutions to address problems or make improvements, taking into account pragmatic solutions
- Ability to deploy a range of negotiation tactics and strategies to secure optimal outcomes for clients
- Ability to consult and involve others in ideas and concepts, defending area’s position as necessary, recognising when to stand down
- Seeks opportunities for change in order to achieve improvement in workflow, processes, etc.
- Ability to develop meaningful metrics for procurement selection purposes, incentivisation and contract performance measurements
Knowledge
- Governance, Assurance & Compliance
- Strategy Development
- Project Management & Planning
- Estimating & Cost Planning
- Procurement
- UCR/PCR Application
- Bespoke Third Party Agreements
- Contract Management & Administration
- Negotiation
- Dispute Resolution
- Cost Control
- Risk & Value Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Processes
- Systems
- Desirable Memberships / Qualifications - MCIPS
Experience
- Experience procuring large value complex heavy civils / construction or similar works/services ideally in compliance with the Utilities Contracts Regulations with knowledge of applicable EU and UK procurement legislation and contracts using the NEC suite of contract forms – However open to people with awareness of OJEU with experience procurement major construction, rail or civil engineering work packages using a structured end to end process – could be from client, consultancy or Tier 1 main contractor.
- Experience in operating in a matrix environment, with influencing and communication skills – able to persuade on the basis of objective argument founded in fact and analysis
- Commercial expertise to ensure that value for money is secured and demonstrated
- Sponsor / Stakeholder relationship and management experience, with communication and influencing skills