Procurement Lead; Win

Overview

This role is a key part in a relatively newly established Project Procurement team with a focus on growth and future supply chain design and spend and transforming our regional procurement practices. The new team forms part of the UK & Ireland region's Operations, Innovation & Improvement team.

To help achieve our growth ambition and mitigate downstream delivery & compliance risks, Procurement and Supply Chain has been recognised as a key capability required to support our most important pursuits & bids. It is during the Win Work stages where Atkins

Réalis can create winning solutions specific to the project or client. Decisions are often made at this stage that establish supply chain partnerships and/or subcontractor arrangements to help differentiate our market position relative to our competitors and that can significantly impact delivery outcomes over the longer term.
This role is open across the UK.

In this role you are expected to pro-actively reach out to the business drive involvement in bid capture stages as well as live bid support. You are expected to develop and execute procurement strategies and plans as an integrated member of capture and bid teams. Not only will you support critical pursuits & bids on an individual basis producing necessary bespoke inputs as required, you will also support make/buy strategies to inform and build supply chain solutions for common/aggregated requirements derived from longer-term growth pipelines.

You will require strong influencing skills to help the function become an integral part of win work and get involved early as the go-to expertise for engaging third parties. As well as leading the end-to-end procurement aspects of the role, given the business' strong ethos of collaboration and teaming with suppliers in bids, solid understanding and experience of contracting, commercial models, workshare agreements and strong negotiations skills are required.

NEC 4 contracts are used heavily across the business and hands‑on experience of NEC 4 Subcontracting in the Professional Services and Works space in a contracting organisation is therefore essential.

The role will work closely with the regional Win Work team to ensure involvement in our most important pursuits & bids, and help identify and deliver improvements in processes, governance, guidance, and templates regarding effective use of suppliers during the Win Work cycle.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Procurement and supply chain professional to play a key role across the UK & I region and help shape the role that the Project Procurement team plays in growing the UK & I business. The individual will also be expected to contribute to a wider global Procurement Transformation agenda.

You will be joining a relatively new team where your ideas and strategies will be considered and supported and where you have the room to help shape our further direction for Project Procurement. The role works across our different businesses within the UK & I region.

• Deliver and execute partnering and supply chain strategies in identified priority pursuits & bids across the region.
• Draft partner MOUs, Teaming /Workshare Agreements at campaign/bid stages as required.
• Be proactive in seeking involvement in major bids across the Core markets and embed yourself as an integral part of campaign and bid teams.
• Support make/buy strategies on individual bids.
• Influence the "in delivery" strategy/proposed roles and responsibilities and estimates for the management of the supply chain on individual bids to drive consistency of approach in delivery.
• Actively drive change to ensure early and consistent engagement of the function in campaigns and win work through actively demonstrating added value as well as through recommendations in structural changes to ways of working.
• Work with multi‑functional teams along the end‑to‑end supply chain process to ensure we select and subcontract with the right suppliers and appropriate checks are done.
• Work with the appropriate commercial teams on new contracting models where supply chain forms an integral part of our client offerings.
• Help to shape the supply chain…