Capital Project Procurement Lead - Hertfordshire - Hybrid working - 6 months (extensions likely) - Rate: £700 per day inside ir35 - one stage interview - 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.

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