Procurement Manager

About the Role

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.

We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

This role will be within our Procurement for our Energy division. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.

What will you be doing?

As the Procurement manager you will play a pivotal role within the business where you'll work in close partnership with divisional and project stakeholders, shaping and delivering procurement strategies.

This is an exciting opportunity for a strategic thinker and hands-on leader. You’ll be instrumental in shaping subcontract procurement, strengthening supplier relationships and ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory & company standards. You'll be the client facing procurement lead for the Great Grid Partnership (GGP), contributing to the enterprise procurement strategy and sharing best practice across the GGP Enterprise.

This is a hybrid role based in one of our regional offices (Birmingham, Nottingham, Stevenage, Newport) including regular collaboration with our partners in GGP Enterprise offices in Birmingham.

This role reports directly in to the Head of Procurement and your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with divisional stakeholders to define procurement requirements and align procurement activities with business objectives.
• Build and maintain supplier relationships, monitor performance and implement corrective actions to ensure continuity of supply and compliance with contractual obligations.
• Identify, prioritise and implement procurement strategies that drive innovation, deliver savings and cost-avoidance opportunities managing from assessment through to realisation.
• Plan and lead the sourcing activities, including RFQs and ITTs, leveraging supply chain and market intelligence to obtain best value and favourable commercial outcomes.
• Conduct structured evaluations of quotations and tenders, presenting best value and compliance with company standards and contractual requirements.
• Lead negotiation of framework agreements and ensure procurement activities are aligned with project budgets and programmes and compliant with legal regulatory & company standards.
• Oversee the transition from contract award to operational execution ensuring effective project mobilisation, compliance with sourcing strategy.
• Identify and mitigate supply, commercial, and regulatory risks.
• Develop and maintain robust processes, tools, and reporting mechanisms to enhance efficiency, compliance and alignment with our health and safety culture, ESG objectives, regulatory and company standards.
• Promote best practice and a continuous improvement mindset.