Overview In this role you will lead strategic supply chain activities for Major Projects, aligning bid and delivery objectives with client expectations and commercial targets. You’ll shape robust supply chain strategies, maintain key partner relationships, and drive readiness and resilience to enable successful project outcomes. You will work within cross-functional teams to integrate supply chain considerations into bids, pricing, and solution development. This is a pivotal role for shaping value-driven, compliant sourcing and early contractor involvement in a major construction portfolio.
Pay / Benefits - Smart working with up to 40% remote
- 25 days paid annual leave
- Family friendly policies including long leave provisions
- Pension and share incentive plan
- volunteering leave and recognition schemes
Responsibilities - Lead supply chain strategy development for bids with alignment to win themes and commercial targets
- Develop and lead Strategic Supplier Relationship Management programme with continuous improvement
- Implement Supplier Performance Management via Jaggaer e-Procurement system and close improvement actions
- Drive early supply chain engagement and market intelligence across sectors and pipeline
- Contribute to PQQ/ITT responses with partner value propositions and delivery models
- Facilitate Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) with partners to optimise design and delivery
- Define packaging strategy and supply chain architecture aligned to project delivery
- Provide input into pricing and solution development with credible market assumptions
- Governance and risk management for supply chain, ensuring compliance and resilience
- Integrate supply chain strategy with commercial/technical solutions in bid leadership teams
- Report on readiness, risks, and opportunities to support governance and Gate Reviews
- Drive continuous improvement and capture lessons learned for category strategy
- Ensure mobilisation readiness and smooth bid-to-delivery transition
Key requirements - Relevant business degree or equivalent experience (MCIPS desired)
- Experience in developing and delivering supply chain strategy
- Pragmatic, compliant process approach
- Results-oriented with track record of exceeding targets
- Team player with stakeholder management skills
- Flexible and driven with customer focus
- Strong problem solving and initiative
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Presentation skills
- stakeholder management
- team collaboration
- problem solving
- Jaggaer e-Procurement system
- Strategic Supplier Relationship Management
- supply chain governance and risk management
