Senior Procurement Officer

Senior Procurement Officer
High Wycombe
£50-70k + 10% car allowance & package

Exciting opportunity with a leading international main contractor that works in a variety of sectors including data centres, distribution centres, and manufacturing facilities.
They're looking for a Senior Procurement officer to be based at their Head Office near High Wycombe. reporting directly to the Group Procurement Director.

The Senior Procurement Officer is responsible for the end-to-end management of the procurement cycle for their assigned packages in accordance with project specific requirements. This is inclusive of pre-order procurement activities and post-order award management.
Assigned packages will be a combination of (and not restricted to) -

- Capital equipment
- Construction trade contracts
- Professional services contracts

The successful candidate will be assigned specific projects and will be involved in the full 360 life cycle of procurement.

Other responsibilities will include -

- Act as a senior representative of the procurement department and ensure that procurement procedures are adhered to.
- Act as company representative to clients and be a key interface for client procurement on assigned projects.
- Research new qualified contractors and vendors as needed.
- Evaluate existing suppliers as needed.
- Involvement in project initiation including supporting development of the project procurement execution plan.
- Manage the tender process for assigned packages. This will entail taking a package from the point of receipt of scope through enquiry, bid evaluation and to the point of recommendation to award.
- Conduct detailed commercial evaluation of received supplier proposals.

Applicants should have the following -

- At least 5 years' experience in a procurement role in construction.
- Knowledge and experience of trade contracts and materials procurement.
- MCIPS qualification or working towards MCIPS is desirable.

Please submit an up to date CV to apply