Description:
As part of DCC’s procurement transformation, DCC is creating a Sourcing Team. The Procurement Manager will deliver a category led buying approach from tactical buying to strategic multi-year procurements. The role reports into a Senior Procurement Manager. These roles will change how we will consume energy for the next generation (25 years) and beyond. You will be playing a critical role in supporting DCC and the Smart Meter programme.
What will you be doing?
- Manage, lead, and deliver sourcing activity to assigned projects and categories utilising established negotiation, benchmarking, strategic sourcing techniques & sustainability policies
- Working with DCC Directors and Executives to set and implement, sourcing and procurement for all assigned procurement projects – ranging up to £100m+
- Providing thought advice and procurement expertise on sourcing models to meet the different needs of the business – from catalogue and auctions through to complex multi-year transformational procurements
- Providing sourcing expertise on end-to-end IT Procurement strategy
- The Procurement Manager must be able to demonstrate experience as follows: -
- Manage, lead, and deliver sourcing activity to assigned projects and categories utilising established
- negotiation, benchmarking & strategic sourcing techniques & sustainability policies that aligns with the Net Zero aims in the UK Government
What are we looking for?
- Understanding of regulated and a non-regulated procurement and sourcing environments. Ideally with reference to secure and critical national industries
- Significant Sourcing experience with a demonstrable track record of savings delivery
- Proven level of negotiation and dispute resolution skill set
- Strong research and analytical capabilities, in particular supply market research, spend analysis, business requirements analysis and bidder response evaluation
- Experience with cross-functional collaborative working methods
- Solution driven, innovator, cost and value led
- An analytical mind-set: comfortable manipulating large volumes of data
- Strong attention to details and proven ability to work in an open / auditable way fitting to a regulated environment