Hybrid Procurement and Supply Chain Manager – Sector

at Costain Group PLC

• Job title: Procurement and Supply Chain Manager – Sector
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Whitehaven, United Kingdom

About the role

• Procurement and Supply Chain Manager leading project subcontract procurement and advising project stakeholders. Collaborating with project leads in a construction industry setting.

Responsibilities

• Delivering Procurement (Pre-Contract) & Supply Chain Management (Post-Contract) across their sector, providing direction and support in the process. This will include collaborating seamlessly with the pre-construction estimating team and the post-award commercial team under our One Team, One Costain vision.
• Ability to utilise the Procurement Process to enable ECI, guiding the team on the decision-making criteria such as (but not limited to): the maturity of the design, the preservation of commercial tension, the likely benefits realisation pipeline, the opportunity to secure scarce resource, the relationship with the proposed ECI 2-stage Subcontractor and the ability to take a recommendation through The Costain Way gated governance.
• Project management and procurement to deliver our category strategy requirements. Project management of subcontract procurement activities, delivering predictable best-in-class outcomes which enable the project team to meet all key dates and milestones, whilst delivering high forecast accuracy.
• Ensuring a robust and structured supply chain exists to service the requirements of the projects / frameworks fully complying with the How- to- Buy Process. Feeding into both the sectoral and Group Strategic, Preferred and Approved Supply Chain Segmentation model.
• Enabling the drive towards Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), including but not limited to local Small to Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) engagement, delivering Social Impact, as well as Net Zero.
• Promote collaboration between the business and the supply chain to unlock value through innovation and best practice where appropriate using the principles of ISO44001 or P13 principles.
• Develop strong relationships with key internal stakeholders to democratise the procurement process, our strategic approach and governance, unlocking Value for Money across our portfolio of work
• Develop relationships with client’s Supply Chain and Procurement teams, participating in their initiatives to assist them in achieving their goals, maximising stakeholder engagement with external stakeholders to deliver outcomes.
• Ability to utilise both strategic and operational procurement approaches to drive appropriate risk allocation looking at this through both an operational and commercial lens driving cost-avoidance.
• Experience in facilitating/co-ordinating the development of exemplar subcontract scoping documents, reviewing this documentation via a commercial lens with the ability to constructively challenge subcontract scoping gaps - encouraging exemplar specification.
• Ability to leverage operational procurement and subcontract practises that keep disallowed costs to a minimum, with a small delta between the normalised quote and the outturn cost, preserving the margin of our projects and the Group.
• Supply Chain Performance Management, including managing under-performance with successful corrective action planning, and excellent performance (via the sharing of lessons learned).

Requirements

• Member Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply qualified (min level 5)
• Experience working in a similar level role
• A clear and visible enthusiasm for driving improvement in best practice
• Extensive knowledge of supply chain management and procurement
• Experience of collaborative working and implementing innovation
• Operational Procurement & Supply Chain skills relevant to the construction industry
• Extensive knowledge of leading procurement and supply chain practice and the value the P&SC function add to our projects is communicated regularly throughout the function to drive a learning culture
• Basic carbon literacy and an awareness of ISO20400 Guidance Standard for Sustainable Procurement
• Experienced in leading supply chain engagement, e.g., chairing procurement meetings and negotiations
• Excellent analytical skills relating to numerical and clarifications assessments
• Experience in developing and implementing ESG and SV policies with the supply base.
• Familiarity with NEC forms of contract
• Ability to evaluate and understand research and identify relevant and valuable information
• Thinks strategically and a natural collaborator
• Proactive, flexible and results oriented.
• Excellent Microsoft Office suite proficiency (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)