Capital Project Procurement Lead

£700 per day, inside IR35 - 6 month contract, extensions expected

Remote/hybrid (low on site attendance per month)

Sector: Energy / Engineering

Yolk recruitment is recruiting for a Capital Project Procurement Lead to work with a world leader in green energy.
The primary responsibility of the Project Procurement lead is to develop and execute the project procurement strategy & approach for one or multiple projects within the capital portfolio ensuring that engineering, construction, equipment and trades contracts are established and are in line with the delivery & contracting strategy for the project.

You'll need experience in provate sector, end to end CAPEX project procurement, and experience of EPCM contracts, leading projects within sectors such as energy, chemicals, oil & Gas, pharmaceutical or life sciences.

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of the project procurement plan and its execution in line with project priorities, programme and business requirements.
• Enable alignment with respective category strategies / feed project information & lessons learned to the respective category leaders.
• Ensure adherence to the company's procurement policies, procedures, business practices and codes of practice.
• Represent procurement within the project team and to projects key stakeholders in project governance meetings, providing leadership as required.
• Lead selection of, and negotiate contract for, Engineering services, EPCM contractor.
• Support supplier selection, following a standard purchasing approach (quality, total cost, delivery time, innovation, avoid single sourcing, promote standardisation).
• Sharing barriers and key information with BU Procurement leadership as well as Group Procurement category leaders.
• Provide timely warning to BU senior management, and relevant internal customers, on supplier quality management issues highlighting serious concerns or likely impact to customers.
• Monitor performance of suppliers and support Project Managers mitigate project risk.
• Provide regular reporting to both the project team and Group Procurement Global Category Leader

Experience Required:

• 7-10 years' experience within a project Procurement role in chemical, oil & gas, life science industry
• Experience capital project procurement management gained within industrial /construction projects
• Knowledge and experience in managing major engineering/contractor firms, as well as construction subcontractor base.
• Strong negotiation skills

Desirable Experience:

• Understanding of IChemE & FIDIC type contract templates