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Role: Senior Project Procurement Specialist – Subcontracted Services

Location: United Kingdom

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Procurement Specialist – Subcontracted Services for our supply chain management team in the UK during a pivotal period of growth. In this role, you will be responsible for complete project procurement activities, implementing comprehensive sourcing and procurement strategies that optimize costs, enhance supplier quality, and improve reliability. Additionally, in your role you will report to the Head of Supply Chain, keeping constant update on project procurement plan, project procurement status report, vendor management and relevant risk assessments. Your role will be crucial through the project execution, ensuring effective management of supplier-related risks and opportunities.

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Role: Senior Project Procurement Specialist – Subcontracted Services

Location: United Kingdom

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Procurement Specialist – Subcontracted Services for our supply chain management team in the UK during a pivotal period of growth. In this role, you will be responsible for complete project procurement activities, implementing comprehensive sourcing and procurement strategies that optimize costs, enhance supplier quality, and improve reliability. Additionally, in your role you will report to the Head of Supply Chain, keeping constant update on project procurement plan, project procurement status report, vendor management and relevant risk assessments. Your role will be crucial through the project execution, ensuring effective management of supplier-related risks and opportunities.

What will you do?

Sourcing Strategy – Implements effective sourcing strategies in line with business strategy
to ensure that suppliers have the capability and capacity to meet current and future business requirements. Ensures all relevant parties in the company understand strategies and execute company processes accordingly. Aligns project supply chain activities with the Head of Supply Chain organization’s sourcing strategies and approved vendor list. Ensure best cost, quality, sustainability and delivery performance.
Supplier Relations – Manages relationships with subcontractors (including negotiations, frame agreements and purchase orders) in partnership with the Head of Supply Chain. Conduct direct negotiations with the subcontractors to meet the project target prices.
Procedures – Applies company procurement procedures and plans and ensures appropriate implementation and compliance by the project team
Monitoring – Monitors the project procurement status and updates Head of Supply Chain management of any issues. Pro-actively works to resolve issues related to procurement cost, quality and delivery.
Process Excellence – Collaborates with project team to identify new suppliers and ensures vendors prequalification as per company standards
Documentation – Documents general and special conditions for use on all project purchase documents, project procurement procedures, and project procurement plans and ensures compliance
Compliance – Governs Linxon Global SCM standards on health and safety, sustainability, business ethics, environmental regulations and Level of Authority. Implements and maintains the related Global SCM instructions and procedures.

Requirements

Experience in Power Sector – Transmission & Distribution business.
Vast experience in project procurement negotiations for large, subcontracted services (> 70 MUSD)
Experienced in handling Subcontract Management and proficient in timely finalizing Main orders for the Substation Main Services (civil works, HVAC, firefighting, installation and commissioning).
Possess strong technical knowledge in construction activities, proposing optimized technical solutions in view of the cost saving strategy.
As part of a Global company, extensive international experience and knowledge of various utilities, standards and specifications.
Analytical leadership with an independent and solution-oriented working style, as well as strong communicative and collaborative skill.
Previous experience in a multicultural environment and high degree of inter-cultural sensitivity help you lead and motivate team by influence.
Extensive experience in commercial negotiations.
Supporting the effective utilization of the Supply chain resources based in the Global Engineering & Technology Services (GETS) office in India.

Competencies/ Skills Required

Preferred: Degree in Civil Engineering.
As a SCM professional working in a highly projectized environment
Self-disciplined, able to work autonomously with a high degree of initiative and with an appropriate sense of urgency.
Experience in a result driven environment and problem solving and analytical skills.
Professional Presentation skills.
Demonstrate high level of people development and leadership skill

What We Offer

Great salary structure
Hybrid work model
Industry leading bonus and pension scheme
Car allowance

About Linxon

Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity.

We combine Hitachi Energy’s deep technological knowledge and Atkins Realis’s project management expertise to create a company dedicated to substations – we are Linxon.

Linxon’s vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world-class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects.

As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy and transportation.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future. If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you.

To know more about the Linxon please click on the link below.

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Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time