Construction Procurement Manager

Job title:

Construction Procurement Manager

Company

QinetiQ

Job description

Job Title: Construction Procurement Manager
Location: UK

Package: Excellent Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type: Full Time / Permanent
Role ID: SF16233

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Construction Procurement Manager at our Fanrborough site where you will provide a ‘best-in-class’ procurement service for our Construction and Facilities Management Procurement Team, providing full autonomy in the role where no project or day is the same.

About the role

As a Construction Procurement Manager, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary, developing new supplier relationships in order to meet QinetiQ’s future aspirations. This will require negotiating favourable terms, using the appropriate contract from the NEC suite of contracts with suppliers and prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of Construction works. You could be working on a range of Fit Outs, Refurbishments and New Build projects on a vast variety of sites including, but not limited to, Hangers, Ranges, Laboratories, Commercial Offices and Test Facilities.

You will have the support of highly experienced Procurement Managers that will provide you with the training and development to be successful. We are therefore open to applications from Construction Managers and Commercial Managers from the Construction Industry who are interested in utilising their experience for an innovative organisation that can provide extensive flexibility and home working.

Accountabilities of the Construction Procurement Manager

• Develop strong relationships with key decision-makers in order to influence behaviours and ensure appropriate involvement of Procurement in all sourcing activities.
• Collaborate with the Project Teams and Group Property to identify opportunities to utilise supplier relationships and frameworks that leverage Group scale. Conversely, the Senior Supply Chain Manager will be responsible for identifying repeat requirements from the projects pipeline and deliver suitable, long term contracting mechanisms.
• Responsible for driving the sourcing process, identification of Risk and Opportunities, and for working collaboratively with key stakeholders within the business to execute the procurement strategy for the full range of procurement projects.
• Influences adjacent functional team members to improve solution design or commercial offering.

This role is full-time, 37 hours per week and we offer flexible, adaptive working options, with typically two to three days working from home. The ability and willingness to travel to various sites is required.

Essential experience of the Construction Procurement Manager

• Proven contract negotiation and stakeholder influencing skills.
• Contract knowledge of NEC suite or JCT.
• Procurement knowledge and understanding.
• Extensive knowledge of the key commercial dynamics in the construction sector including industry trends and standards across a range of categories.
• Influencing, creating and executing strategic Make Vs. Buy decisions.
• Demonstrable experience of the full end to end procurement process.
• Knowledge of procurement systems and infrastructure.
• Understand impact of external customer requirements, recommends and executes solutions to minimise risk and significantly improve probability of winning external bids & tenders.

Qualifications for the Construction Procurement Manager

• Degree in a Business or Engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.
• CIPS or RICS Qualified or equivalent experience.

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance as a minimum.

Our Benefits

• Flexible, adaptive working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave.
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering – helping charities and local community

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture .

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 06:45:39 GMT

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