Procurement Specialist

Procurement Specialist

Our client's vision is to generate sustainable change by building and scaling a progressive portfolio of digitally-led businesses which reimagine energy. This is no mean feat, and therefore it is ever critical to build the culture and teams needed in a company looking to achieve this ambitious goal.
By leveraging their own advantage they aim to help their portfolio build credible relationships with their first big customers or partners, whilst enabling themselves to create market share in parts of the industry they want to operate in longer term. It's definitely not straight forward, however, if they find the common ground rather than focus on the differences, they can build a unique and successful culture.

The Procurement Specialist will report in to the Procurement Lead and will:

Leading on activities to run the client's own procurement function will include:

Manage procurement requirements for the team.
Maintain strong relationships with suppliers, internal project teams to ensure procurement supports deliver of business objectives.
Receive requisitions and demands, negotiate with suppliers and manage new supplier onboarding in accordance with their Procurement processes.
Support finance function with Procurement-to-Pay (P2P) process, new vendor creation, PO creation and invoice receipting.
Negotiate terms and conditions, renewals, and other contractual documents with their suppliers, working in tandem with the legal team.
Help identify and lead the implementation of continuous process improvements.
Support the Procurement Lead in leveraging client commercial agreements, relationships, tools & systems.

Supporting the Procurement Lead with strategic projects for their portfolio will include:

Support Procurement Lead to develop best practice processes / policies / contracting mechanisms / systems within our portfolio companies to ensure governance, agility and growth.
Support the negotiation of terms and conditions and other contractual documents in partnership with their portfolio companies.
Support the Procurement Lead in new investment due diligence when required.

To tackle the above, they will need you to bring:

Procurement & Supply Chain experience in large corporates with innovative and agile approach to procurement and/or in start-up, VC/PE environment.
A broad range of experience relating to all phases of the procurement lifecycle, with specific emphasis on outsourcing, negotiation, supplier management, risk management and contracting.
Innovative and creative problem solving skills.
A data driven approach.
An ability to network internally & externally and stay engaged via industry publications, conferences & events.
Influencing and clear communication skills.
Successful track record of thriving in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
Ability to manage all elements of complex projects from requirements definition to development and implementation and work on multiple tasks in parallel.
An entrepreneurial mindset: willingness to dig in and work in a self-guided hands-on way.

The contract status is 'Inside IR35'.