Procurement Lead; Win

Overview

This role is key part of a relatively newly established Project Procurement team focused on growth and future supply chain design and spend, and on transforming our regional procurement practices. It is part of the UK & Ireland (UK&I) region's Operations, Innovation & Improvement team.

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

Réalis can create winning solutions specific to the project or client, establishing supply chain partnerships or subcontractor arrangements that differentiate our market position and significantly impact delivery outcomes over the longer term. This role is open across the UK.

• Deliver and execute partnering and supply chain strategies in identified priority pursuits and bids across the region.
• Draft partner MOUs, Teaming/Workshare Agreements at campaign or 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 recommendations in structural changes to ways of working.
• Work with multi‑functional teams along the end‑to‑end supply chain process to select and subcontract with the right suppliers and ensure appropriate checks are done.
• Work with relevant commercial teams on new contracting models where supply chain forms an integral part of our client offerings.
• Help shape the supply chain strategy in relation to future client offerings and targeted growth pipeline.
• Act as key point of contact for advice and guidance around Procurement and supply chain in work winning.
• Train, develop and advise bid and delivery teams in supply chain best practices.
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  Réalis values and act as a role model in all interactions internally and externally.
• For successful bids lead on contractually mobilising external partners and suppliers in support of programme teams – be the conduit from tender stage.
• The role may acquire other responsibilities as the supply chain function develops and matures and the successful candidate has an opportunity to help shape this role and its remit.

• Your primary focus will be to directly support business strategy and growth agenda, demonstrating an uplift in functional capability, and helping to change how supply chain is more consistently considered and used across the region as early as possible in the project lifecycle.
• To be successful in this role you need the ability to quickly build strong relationships with senior leaders across the region, demonstrate value‑add, and be proactive and agile during execution.
• Robust understanding of procurement and supply chain management, including supply‑chain design, business partnering, supplier relationship management and bidding is required.
• This is a hands‑on role; the successful candidate will implement supply‑chain design into tangible agreements or outputs at the different stages of the project life cycle, including campaigns, bids and mobilisation.
• An engineering background would be highly beneficial given the nature of the organisation and its service offerings.
• If you have the necessary technical expertise and contracting organisation experience, you have a drive for improvement, want to actively shape the direction of the Project Procurement function and make a real difference in an organisation where supply chain is instrumental to deliver on our future strategy and successful growth, this role is for you.
• Significant experience and proven track‑record in Procurement and Supply Chain in contracting organisations (preferably in work winning).
• Significant experience of drafting partnering or teaming agreements and supply‑chain…