Procurement Bid Manager

Morson is delighted to be working in partnership with a market leading Aerospace & Defence organisation to recruit a Procurement Bid Manager for an initial12 Month contract. There is a rate of £35 PAYE per hour or £47.12 Umbrella per hour on offer for the successful candidate.  The role would be mainly home based with ad hoc site visits required to either Guildford, Surrey or Christchurch, Dorset.

Please find the job spec. below:

Job Description
- This role will be expected to lead and manage the delivery of supply chain capability for key customer contracts/ projects or complex goods and services in line with lifecycle and assurance frameworks, tailored to meet the needs of the project and likely to include: management of sub-contractor deliverables supplier development and performance management contract management mitigation of financial and non-financial risk to ensure margins are maintained and, continuous improvement activities through supplier and stakeholder intimacy.
- Manage the procurement and supply chain team to ensure the teams provide procurement expertise, source, negotiate, contract and manage services to meet the needs of the business.
- The role will involve creating procurement solutions, requiring the job holder to plan, deliver and deploy appropriate procurement and supply chain interventions and resource in support of business aims.
- Contribute and influence the delivery of the functional and business units financial performance.

Key Responsibility Areas
- As part of Procurement Delivery Team ensure the Procurement and subcontract strategies are being enacted to deliver in accordance with Customer (Prime) contract commitments.
- Manage and direct all Procurement Delivery and in-contract activities in conjunction with Commercial, Bid Management, Project and Technical teams, for your assigned area including: subcontract construct contract negotiation contract implementation through life monitoring of supplier deliverables, risk disposition, performance against defined targets of performance, cost and delivery.
- Support follow on bids/projects (where appropriate) and all requisite follow on sub-contract/supplier relationship management activities within reasonably defined areas of responsibility.
- Ensure that critical supplier relationships are cultivated, developed and maintained so as to allow the business to fully meet customer current and future needs.
- Manage and influence internal and external stakeholder relationships to ensure the product or service provision:
o Meets the governance & quality requirements of the business and our customers.
o Provides competitive advantage by applying market knowledge and commercial acumen to drive value and innovation, decrease risk and support CSR targets through the supply chain.
o Manage flow down of terms from Customer contract to the supply chain in order to protect my clients’ position.
o Drives a continuous improvement philosophy through the supply chain keeping Digital Intelligence ahead of the game in terms of customer offerings.
o Delivers an optimized service, quality and cost offering to the customers and to deliver sustainable (measurable) service excellence through demonstrable customer satisfaction
o Achieves the required service level as agreed with internal stakeholders.
- Support the development and implementation of procurement strategy, governance and innovative change programmes, ensuring consistency and effective improvement in procurement services, embedding a culture of continuous improvement and the sharing of best practices.
- Manage contracts throughout their life in conjunction with the business.
- Lead and manage the risk and opportunity activities to minimise contractual exposure and maximise contract effectiveness.
- Implement and utilise all available tools and techniques, including relevant and applicable KPI’s to ensure effective monitoring of supplier performance and leading any associated improvement plans/good practice share.
- Enable open communication with suppliers to encourage collaboration and innovation where appropriate.
- Manage and develop team to ensure procurement resources are deployed to best effective and that talent is managed in line with Functional requirements and changing business needs.
- Ability to deputise for the Senior Procurement Manager.
- Be seen by internal and external stakeholders as a subject expert and primary leader for the Procurement team within a business. Role holder will provide expertise, regularly partnering with others to meet strategic goals.

The Individual Requirements

- Experience of working within Defence sector
- Excellent cross functional stakeholder management skills
- Coaching and supporting development as required.
- Ability to synthesise data to identify root cause and inform robust business decisions.
- Ability to utilise the collective experience and knowledge within the team to deliver effective solutions.
- Utilise creativity to solve complex problems and implement these changes in the business
- Ability to build, grow and influence networks across sectors, to support collaborative working.
- Accuracy and attention to detail when reviewing team deliverables and the ability to provide constructive feedback.
- Excellent interpersonal skills that support collaborative stakeholder relationships.
- Excellent negotiation skills that drive positive business outcomes and ability to influence at all levels.
- The ability to establish and manage appropriate KPIs and Metrics for sub-contracts which are:
o Reflective of the key objectives of the Project or Project phase
o The basis for project management trade-off decisions
o A mixture of cost, schedule, quality, and constructive teamwork behaviour measures
o Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound (SMART)
o Sufficiently granular to observe deviation from desired goals early enough to correct plans

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