Senior Buyer

Job Description

Company description:J. Murphy & Sons Limited is a leading global, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 that improves lives by delivering world-class infrastructure.Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, we provide better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including Transportation, Water, Power, Natural Resources, and Construction & Property.Headquartered in London, we also have a number of related businessesGround Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Urban Infrastructure; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services.We are specialists in delivering pipelines; design; marine; structural steel; tunnelling; fabrication; bridges and piling; and invest heavily in our substantial holding of plant; equipment and facilities.Murphy employs around 3,500 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, we work as One Murphy by directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success.Theres more to Murphy.Job description:Senior Subcontract BuyerCP6CambridgeAre you an established Senior Subcontract Buyer looking for your next challenge Due to new project wins J. Murphy & Sons have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Subcontract Buyer to join the team, you will be commercially minded with a shrewd approachto support and work solely on one of our most prestigious Rail frameworks.To be successful in this role you will be confident with end to end subcontract supply chain management and enjoy offering an efficient and cost effective service working closely with the Procurement Manager and Project Director. The ideal candidate willhave a natural flare to instil experience onto more junior members of the team who are hungry and keen to learn to support and drive a culture of excellence.With a robust forward order book of £2.2b and ranked as a the "UKs Number One Best Big Company to Work for" there really is no better time to join J. Murphy Sons Ltd!What you will be doing

• Deliver a consistent procurement approach across the project within the regional operating unit from work winning / pre-construction stage.
• Demonstrate best overall value for money in the procurement recommendations
• Ensure a robust negotiation process is applied in the engagement process.
• Ensure contract arrangements and package details are comprehensive and protect the business in its dealings with suppliers and sub-contractors.
• Contribution to Murphy leverage at every opportunity
• Ensure decisions are not focussed upon lowest price but overall best value for money
• Develop an accredited and structured supply chain that is aligned to the regional operating unit demand and overall Murphy strategy
• Consistently monitor the market place to ensure awareness of pricing trends, risks and opportunities.
• Continuously seek out and assess new supply chain members to meet regional operating unit project demand.
• Monitor the supply chain performance, workload and financial status to protect the corporate position.
• Develop the supply chain, products and innovations that bring cost and/or buildability benefits.
• Work with the regional Operations Director and functional report to manage poor performance.
• Actively contribute to future development of Murphy procurement strategy
• Compliance with procurement process, procedures and company ethics
• Ensure the implementation of National/Regional agreements relating across all projects within the regional operating unit

Who we ae looking for

• Knowledge and understanding of work practices, processes and procedures within the construction process from pre-construction stage and into construction stage.
• Demonstrable experience of Subcontract buying
• A candidate that enjoys developing and mentoring other members of team
• Proactive, enjoys a challenge and building relationships
• Good knowledge of Safety within procurement practices