Senior Procurement Manager Rail - Leeds

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 Procurement Manager (Rail) - LeedsWelcome to TRU East:The Trans Pennine Route Upgrade (TRU) aims to deliver faster, longer, more frequent, and more reliable services across the north of England, from Newcastle, Hull and York towards Manchester and Liverpool via Leeds. The aim of the TRU East Alliance is to transformthe East of Leeds route allowing people to travel faster, more reliably and in greater comfort between the Norths great cities. Providing passengers with more choice, more seats, and better facilities on a safer, cleaner, more environmentally friendly railway.The Procurement Manager oversees the procurement strategy for the entire TRU East Project. The role ensures that quality goods and services are obtained at competitive prices and in a timely fashion. The role also plays an integral part with the disciplineleads and the competitive tendering process and makes certain that the Alliance remains within budgetary limits and operates in the best interest of all Alliance Partners.The Procurement function sits within Commercial and interfaces with the EngineeringManagement, Design Management, Construction, Resource & Program disciplines.What you will be doing

• Ensure that appropriate alliancing behaviours and best for project approaches are always adopted, leading by example in the pursuit of successful delivery of the Programme to the benefit of all Alliance Members.
• Develop, refine, and execute procurement strategies across the Alliance.
• Manage procurements through the procurement life-cycle stages from identifying the need to contract award drawing on internal and external resources as required.
• Promote importance of procurement across all disciplines, maintaining best practice through continuous improvement so that procurement processes are effective in delivering the Alliances objectives.
• Liaises with Discipline Leads and planning to determine the procurement requirements programme wide.
• Monitors procurement requirements and their availability to ensure the best price for goods and services is achieved without sacrificing quality or delivery times.
• Nurtures relationships with suppliers and stakeholders to negotiate the best prices on behalf of the Alliance.
• Identifies and researches potential new suppliers where required.
• Manages the competitive tender process to ensure it is managed fairly and in line with Alliance procedures, including the Alliance Authority to Commit.
• Assesses total costs of Alliance purchases.
• Participate in team meetings as directed and provide specialist procurement guidance.
• Alliance line management responsibilities.
• Participation in the Innovation Teamhelping to research new innovations in the Rail industry.
• Provide Business cases for new innovations to the Alliance leadership Team.
• Work Closely with the Environment Team assisting to achieve our environmental targets set by the client.
• Ensure Procurement Schedules are produced for each element of the project which map back to the project program.
• Providing Target Cost support across all partners.
• Conduct bi-annual PDRs for all direct reports (JMS)
• Conduct regular 1-2-1s with all direct reports from all partners.
• Consistent review of Hire versus Buy across the Alliance.
• Supply Chain Management on behalf of the Alliance.

Who we are looking for

• Experience of railway infrastructure forms of contract and alliancing agreements.
• A relevant degree and/or transferrable industry expertise.
• Experience of working on collaborative projects with multiple companies desired.
• Well-developed and proven organisational, planning and time management skills.
• Experience of working on collaborative projects with multiple companies.
• Ability to present and communicate complex commercial data in a clear and concise manner.
• Ability to self-motivate and deliver results through team-based working.
• High level numeracy and IT skills, with proven ability to expertly use a range of relevant software.
• Personal resilience and ability to respond positively to pressure.
• Personal and professional credibility.