Senior Procurement Specialist

Butler Ross are proud to be working with a nuclear engineering company who are recruiting for multiple Senior Procurement Specialists. This position is based in Warrington, offering a flexible hybrid working model: 2-3 days per week on site. This role is offering a salary of £60,000 - £70,000 depending on relevant skills and experience.

Your responsibilities as a Senior Procurement Specialist include:

• You will have close liaison with Commercial, Quality Assurance, Projects and Corporate Services functions on all aspects of supply chain activities
• You will be accountable for managing and leading a small procurement team, driving performance to deliver tangible and recognised value.
• You will lead Cross Functional Teams to ensure procurement deliverables are met in line with cost, quality and programme requirements throughout
• You will utilise sourcing and tendering processes that meet and exceed project / programme deliverables.
• Management of post contract commercial management of subcontracts during project execution phases and mitigating the business exposure to subcontractor claims.

Person specification

• You will have a detailed understanding of business requirements and the capability to ensure these are adequately provided for in the overall sourcing strategy.
• You will have an understanding of end-to-end sourcing and supplier management processes together with an ability to identify and capture incremental value in an operational working environment.
• You will have a good understanding of cost models/business models particularly in relation to the NEC models, familiarity with accounting practices, commercial audits, forecasting and valuations and supplier costing models - NEC3 /4 experience is extremely advantageous, with any JCT or FIDIC experience also a plus
• You will have a deep understanding of planning and implementing supply arrangements, and managing supplier performance.

This role will be well suited to you if you have previously had a role within Procurement, Supply Chain or Contract / Commercial Management: as a Procurement Manager, Procurement Specialist, Sourcing Manager, Sourcing Specialist, Category Manager, Category Specialist, Supply Chain Specialist, Supply Chain Manager, Commercial Manager, Contract Manager, Contracts Manager, Contract Specialist or Contracts Specialist.