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Senior Procurement Manager

Strabag

The Role

Overview

Senior Procurement Manager leads strategy, supplier relations, and team in construction.

Key Responsibilities

  • procurement strategy
  • supplier management
  • contract negotiation
  • category management
  • material forecasting
  • client engagement

Tasks

-Ensure compliance with procedural, regulatory, quality, environmental and corporate social responsibility policies. -Collaborate with operational management and the supply chain to identify innovation and source new and alternative materials and methods. -To support the Work Winning teams and ensure that Procurement Strategies are in place. -Establish, build, and maintain collaborative relationships with all key suppliers. -Ensure supplier evaluation forms and risk assessments are maintained. -Be an advocate for Procurement. Influence senior managers, and design and lead on direct benefits realisation. -Lead and drive Procurement Strategy across project and initiatives. -Provide material and goods projections to key suppliers to ensure availability on a timely basis. -Negotiate pricing, contracts, and payment terms with suppliers to secure savings. -To promote and support the use of internal businesses and ensure that they are included in all tender opportunities. -To lead and drive up-skilling and training within the Procurement team. -Lead client facing activities across regional projects. -To drive and support Category management ensuring utilisation and maximisation of group frameworks. -Resolve any discrepancies with suppliers, grievances, claims, conflicts, product non-conformance or quality issues. -Manage the Procurement team group-wide, including recruitment, developing staff and managing agreed budgets. -Ensure that Procurement are leading the sub-contract procurement across the business. -Manage corporate initiatives with the supply chain. -Devise and deliver Procurement Strategy

Requirements

  • financial
  • tendering
  • construction
  • cips
  • degree
  • change management

What You Bring

-Strong financial and commercial awareness. -Experience with tendering process (CompeteFor etc) -Experience within construction/engineering or similar background -Good IT and Communication skills at all levels. -Experience of running supply chain events -Degree qualified in a business, procurement or related discipline -Strategically minded and creative, able to translate a vision into clear methodical plans. -CIPS Qualified -Experience of Managing a Procurement team within the Construction industry. -Change management experience.

The Company

About Strabag

-It delivers complex civil engineering and building megaprojects, including highways, bridges, tunnels, and power plants. -It covers the full project lifecycle—planning, construction, operation, facility management, redevelopment, and demolition. -Its specialisms include building construction, civil engineering, infrastructure, tunnelling, and facility management. -The company operates globally through a dense network of subsidiaries, with notable work on Alpine tunnels and major airports. -It is an innovation engine, driving over 250 R&D projects and maintaining over 400 sustainability initiatives. -In its history, it built infrastructure for the Nazi regime during WWII—a notable yet darker chapter.

Sector Specialisms

Transportation Infrastructure

Road

Rail

Waterways

Tunnels

Building Construction

Civil Engineering

Industrial Plants

Power Stations

Reconstruction

Conversion

Refurbishment

Industrial Facility Service

Steel Structures

Pipeline Construction

Facility Management

Building Technology

Property Management

Refurbishment and Upgrading

Special Industrial Services