HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd
Senior Procurement Manager
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Job Description
Location
- Either Birmingham or London
Multiple Roles Available
Base Salary
- £54,878pa - c.£64,562pa (Birmingham)
- £59,268pa - c.£69,727pa (London)
Depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits. Check them out in the Benefits section on our website.
About Us
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives, and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish, and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
About the Role
As Senior Procurement Manager you will be accountable for the delivery of significant procurement activities, working within a small team to manage and deliver procurements with values ranging from £10 million to £1 billion. The Senior Procurement Manager will work closely with colleagues across the business to develop and deliver procurement strategies and activities, often balancing competing priorities and requirements. The role requires strong stakeholder management and influencing skills to achieve successful outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for significant elements of the operational procurement for the relevant package(s), ensuring that these are aligned with other similar packages and the overall HS2 objectives, including the delivery of wider benefits.
- Supporting the achievement of governance approval and assurance of all procurement deliverables as defined within the HS2 Procurement Handbook. Following approval of the relevant Category Plan, this includes responsibility for developing key components of the necessary Prequalification and ITT documentation to agreed timelines and ensuring that these achieve relevant approvals and assurance to permit release of this documentation.
- Responsible for managing the procurement evaluation processes for the relevant package and ensuring that these achieve relevant approvals and assurance to allow appropriate short-listing and contract award.
- Ensure HS2’s procurement activities are undertaken in compliance with EU and UK legislation whilst driving a process that will become a benchmark for future projects around the world.
- Manage a Procurement Manager and Procurement Officer, ensuring their output is quality-assured at its source.
- Ensure procurement reporting and management information is provided accurately and on a timely basis to synch with HS2 business reporting rhythm and cycles.
- Present to boards and committees, as required, in order to respond to challenge and scrutiny.
- Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work activities, supporting and complying with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.
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About You
- Analytical, commercial, and negotiating skills for complex propositions.
- Skilled in compiling robust tender and commercial documents.
- Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy.
- Ability to develop, implement, realize, and embed innovation, value for money, and benefits realization within the process and contracts that will form the foundation of the successful delivery of the relevant package.
- Ability to provide stakeholder focus, giving priority to engage with and understand requirements, facilitating others’ understanding, to ensure these can be discussed and met as closely as possible.
- Ability to act as a mentor to others to help and support effective performance and development.
- Ability to tailor communication to appeal to, include, and engage with different audiences using pertinent argument and influencing techniques.
- Ability to generate a range of ideas or solutions to address problems or make improvements, taking into account pragmatic solutions.
- Ability to deploy a range of negotiation tactics and strategies to secure optimal outcomes for clients.
- Ability to consult and involve others in ideas and concepts, defending area’s position as necessary, recognizing when to stand down.
- Seeks opportunities for change in order to achieve improvement in workflow, processes, etc.
- Ability to develop meaningful metrics for procurement selection purposes, incentivisation, and contract performance measurements.
Type of Experience
- Experience procuring large value complex heavy civils/construction or similar works/services in compliance with the Utilities Contracts Regulations with a thorough knowledge of applicable EU and UK procurement legislation and contracts using the NEC suite of contract forms.
- Experience in operating in a matrix environment, with influencing and communication skills – able to persuade on the basis of objective argument founded in fact and analysis.
- Commercial expertise to ensure that value for money is secured and demonstrated.
- Sponsor/Stakeholder relationship and management experience, with communication and influencing skills.
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About Us
High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high-speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy, and create thousands of jobs.
HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity, and Leadership.
In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish, and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organization. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
Application Process
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymized, and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube.
Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
Sponsorship
As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept. Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial, and Education checks.
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