Procurement Lead (Win Work)

Overview

This role is a key part in a relatively newly established Project Procurement team with a focus on growth and future supply chain design and spend and transforming our regional procurement practices. The new team forms part of the UK & Ireland (UK&I) region's'Operations, Innovation & Improvement team.

To help achieve our growth ambition and mitigate downstream delivery & compliance risks, Procurement and Supply Chain has been recognised as a key capability required to support our most important pursuits & bids. It is during the Win Work stages where AtkinsRéalis can create winning solutions specific to the project or client. Decisions are often made at this stage that establish supply chain partnerships and/or subcontractor arrangements to help differentiate our market position relative to our competitors and that can significantly impact delivery outcomes over the longer term.

In this role you are expected to pro-actively reach out to the business drive involvement in bid capture stages as well as live bid support. You are expected to develop and execute procurement strategies and plans as an integrated member of capture and bid teams. Not only will you support critical pursuits & bids on an individual basis producing necessary bespoke inputs as required, you will also support make/buy strategies to inform and build supply chain solutions for common/aggregated requirements derived from longer-term growth pipelines.

You will require strong influencing skills to help the function become an integral part of win work and get involved early as the go-to expertise for engaging third parties. As well as leading the end-to-end procurement aspects of the role, given the business' strong ethos of collaboration and teaming with suppliers in bids, solid understanding and experience of contracting, commercial models, workshare agreements and strong negotiations skills are required. NEC 4 contracts are used heavily across the business and hands-on experience of NEC 4 Subcontracting in the Professional Services and Works space in a contracting organisation is therefore essential.

The role will work closely with the regional Win Work team to ensure involvement in our most important pursuits & bids, and help identify and deliver improvements in processes, governance, guidance, and templates regarding effective use of suppliers during the Win Work cycle.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Procurement and supply chain professional to play a key role across the UK&I region and help shape the role that the Project Procurement team plays in growing the UK&I business. The individual will also be expected to contribute to a wider global Procurement Transformation agenda.

You will be joining a relatively new team where your ideas and strategies will be considered and supported and where you have the room to help shape our further direction for Project Procurement. The role works across our different businesses within the UK&I region.