Senior Specialist, Services and Solutions Procurement

Your Mission

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Specialist, Services and Solutions Procurement

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The successful candidate will develop and drive a project procurement strategy to support hub business growth, profitability, and cash flow improvement whilst maintaining strong cross-functional relationships, ensuring, and maintaining a customer-driven ethos and continuously improving our total cost of acquisition performance.

The role encompasses responsibility for Project Resale materials & services, Non-Project purchasing, Logistics, and other functional areas as required by the business.

An important element of the role will be formulating risk management strategies and participating with stakeholders to review and mitigate risks within the business.

The role is designed to offer development opportunities, place the employee at the heart of strategic initiatives and provide exposure to other business disciplines.

Essential Responsibilities:


* Develop and drive project procurement strategy to support hub business growth, profitability, and cash flow improvement through continuous productivity improvement initiatives.


* Involve in Procurement activities associated with the effective purchasing of Project requirements by the Procurement Department in accordance with Project or end-user schedules, specifications, and budgets.


* Develop and responsible in conjunction with Project Managers/Coordinators for the Project Procurement Plan and Execution Strategy for individual Projects.


* Identify and qualify key 3rd party suppliers and sub-contractors for framework agreements to provide competitive pricing and services to support the Pre-bid winning rates and during project execution to improve project gross margin


* Develop and administer bid panels, issue bid requests, coordinate answers to bidder questions, analyze bids, preparing commercial bid summaries and recommendations in accordance with established procedures


* Influence project bid/proposal process by ensuring the best 3rd party strategy to give SES PA a competitive cost position during customer pursuits


* Ensures that the procurement process is in adherence to company and client requirements, company policies, and procedures to ensure successful delivery of project requirements.


* Ensures that all purchases are competitively bid or that sufficient justification and documentation are obtained to allow non-bid purchases.



* Evaluate risk and implement an appropriate risk management plan to prevent both cost and schedule overrun and ensure continuity of supply for the projects.


* Collaborate and develop with Sales/Proposal, Project Delivery, and Peers across the hub to drive competitive material productivity and operational synergies to leverage on spending to achieve competitive pricing, quality, delivery, and risk management with the supply base


* Handle and manage Project RFQs, commercial evaluations, PO award, and PO a...