Capital Project Procurement Lead - Hertfordshire - Hybrid working - 6 months (extensions likely) - Rate: £700 per day inside ir35 - one stage interview - Sector: Energy / Engineering
Yolk recruitment is recruiting for a Capital Project Procurement Lead to work with a world leader in green energy.
The primary responsibility of the Project Procurement lead is to develop and execute the project procurement strategy & approach for one or multiple projects within the capital portfolio ensuring that engineering, construction, equipment and trades contracts are established and are in line with the delivery & contracting strategy for the project.
Responsibilities:
- Ownership of the project procurement plan and its execution in line with project priorities, programme and business requirements.
- Enable alignment with respective category strategies / feed project information & lessons learned to the respective category leaders.
- Ensure adherence to the company's procurement policies, procedures, business practices and codes of practice.
- Represent procurement within the project team and to projects key stakeholders in project governance meetings, providing leadership as required.
- Lead selection of, and negotiate contract for, Engineering services, EPCM contractor.
- Support supplier selection, following a standard purchasing approach (quality, total cost, delivery time, innovation, avoid single sourcing, promote standardisation).
- Sharing barriers and key information with BU Procurement leadership as well as Group Procurement category leaders.
- Provide timely warning to BU senior management, and relevant internal customers, on supplier quality management issues highlighting serious concerns or likely impact to customers.
- Monitor performance of suppliers and support Project Managers mitigate project risk.
- Provide regular reporting to both the project team and Group Procurement Global Category Leader
Experience Required:
- 7-10 years' experience within a project Procurement role in chemical, oil & gas, life science industry
- Experience capital project procurement management gained within industrial /construction projects
- Knowledge and experience in managing major engineering/contractor firms, as well as construction subcontractor base.
- Strong negotiation skills
Desirable Experience:
- Understanding of IChemE & FIDIC type contract templates