Associate Procurement Consultant

Description

Every day you will be encouraged and supported to demonstrate and develop your procurement and consultancy expertise in various contexts, showcasing your skills and experience on complex and diverse projects to support our clients in identifying and implementing innovative procurement solutions to drive value through their projects.

• Liaising with other experts within and outside the organisation on complex issues, and in some circumstances managing subcontractor arrangements. This includes managing project delivery teams, providing senior technical and pastoral support.
• Lead best practice procurement strategy, tender management, and tender evaluation services across the public and private sectors to deliver tangible value and sustainable outcomes.
• As required, provide high quality commercial advice and support to clients to define, negotiate and award a range of standard and bespoke contracts.
• Leading projects and advising clients, providing expert procurement advice and delivery capabilities to clients commissioning capital programmes and projects across various sectors.
• Meeting with clients to present findings on projects and on a businessdevelopment basis to discuss new opportunities and manage relationships with existing and new clients to raise the profile of the Procurement service and represent Arup, by growing strong networks and by attending and speaking at events.
• Responsible for coordinating the production of reports and procurement documentation ensuring consistency and quality and provide input into project business cases, strategies, and delivery models to embed robust and pragmatic commercial and procurement practices.

Requirements

Our Procurement Advisory business is growing with a strong increase in the demand for our expertise. As a result, we have a new opportunity for an experienced procurement professional to join our ambitious team, based out of either Leeds, Manchester or Sheffield but as a part of our national procurement advisory business, with occasional travel required.

• Understanding and application of contract forms such as NEC, JCT, FIDIC. Experience of other forms of contract is also valued.
• Demonstrable experience of drafting procurement strategies and tender evaluation reports for a variety of construction, infrastructure, and professional services projects with knowledge of wider commercial principles and best practice, including contracting strategies and commercial risk management.
• Awareness of public sector procurement (e.g. use of the Public Contracts Regulations or Utilities Contracts Regulations) or another regulated procurement environment, including awareness of the upcoming Procurement Act implications.
• BSc qualified and Full Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (MCIPS).
• Experienced working within a client facing environment, with a confident approach to managing client relationships with a track record of identifying and bidding for new projects and opportunities.

Benefits

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

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We also provide Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas. You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

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