M Group Energy
Senior Procurement Specialist
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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 team 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 a Senior Procurement Specialist, you’ll lead high-value complex sourcing from pre-construction through mobilisation, delivering best-in-class procurement to secure capacity, value and pace. You'll source, tender and negotiate subcontracts, goods and services while ensuring full compliance with our procurement policies and procedures whilst enrusing client specific requirements and those of the Great Grid Partnership Enterprise are adhered to both internally and externally within the supply chain.
Your contributions will underpin successful projects, robust risk management and the delivery of measurable cost improvements across the business.
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 Procurement Manager and your responsibilities will include:
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- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to support project requirements & promote alignment with divisional goals.
- Manage key supplier relationships, ensuring optimal performance, risk mitigation, and compliance.
- Support the commercial function with subcontract management, ensuring performance and compliance with contractual obligations.
- Analyse procurement data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for cost savings.
- Optimise cost management strategies for high-value sub-contract procurement.
- Manage robust procurement schedules by preparing and issuing RFQs & ITT’s aimed a delivering best value.
- Conduct structured evaluations of quotations and tenders, ensuring compliance with company standards and contractual requirements.
- Lead negotiations for high-complexity, high-value goods & services.
- Support or lead negotiation and placing of subcontracts in alignment with project budgets & programme and with legal, regulatory & company standards.
- Support the transition from contract award to project mobilisation.
- Support the identification and mitigation of supply, commercial, and regulatory risks associated with subcontract procurement.
- Ensure compliance with commercial management systems and procurement governance in alignment with our health and safety culture and ESG objectives
What you'll bring:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in procurement or a related role.
- Experience buying subcontracts with working knowledge of NEC3 & NEC4 subcontract forms.
- Strong commercial acumen: scoping, tendering, evaluation, negotiation and contract placement.
- Strong IT skills, including proficiency in MS Office (especially Excel).
- Data analysis, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
- Experience managing multiple deadlines and tasks.
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Desireable:
- Studying toward or interest in CIPS or RICS
What’s in it for you?
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Company car/car allowance and fuel card for business use
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
- Discretionary Bonus Scheme
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave & more.
About Us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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