Senior Procurement Consultant

Description

Responsible for providing strategic as well as operational procurement and contract management in line with category strategies.

The process includes ensuring compliance with corporate governance, mandates, laws, and regulations through development and documentation of scopes, specific procurement strategies, sourcing, tendering, evaluation, contract negotiations, approvals, award, contract management, handling of claims and warranties, and purchasing.

Effective project and stakeholder management through collaboration and clear roles and responsibilities with customers, decision makers, suppliers, and partners.

The outcomes are commercial and effective contracts and procedures serving timely, cost-effective and sustainable supply of goods and services to the business.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Procurement activities related to establishing and managing agreements. Ensure safety, security and sustainability in procurement.
• Establish agreement: Establish Specific Procurement Strategies according to business need, relevant Category Strategies and market input
• Produce and issue request for information (RFI)
• Establish bidders list
• Prepare evaluation procedures
• Establish, issue and manage enquiries
• Handle bid clarifications and conduct bid clarification meetings
• Plan and conduct negotiations
• Perform evaluation and agreement award, including partner approval
• Agreement start-up activities, including:
• Implement contract(s) in all systems (Plan-to-Pay)
• Give input to risk-based follow-up plan, to ensure agreement understanding and compliance
• Manage performance and relations, including:
• Safeguard correct use of the contract and follow up of KPIs (Key performance Index)
• Ensure SOX-control
• Handle contractual issues, change in agreement, including Variation order requests (VOR), variation orders (VO), amendments, Options, Request for rate adjustments
• Perform cancellation and termination of contract
• Perform internal and external stakeholder management as well as supplier relations management

Requirements

The preferred competence requirements for this role include:

Minimum 5 years’ relevant procurement experience

Significant experience working with UK contractual agreements

Experience working in the offshore wind industry advantageous

Commercial mindset and approach to working with suppliers and stakeholders

Willingness to take responsibility and ownership for work

Strong collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Fluent written and spoken English