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As a Senior Procurement Consultant, you'll provide competitive advantage and cost reductions in the acquisition of goods, works and services by tendering and negotiating high value complex contracts within our Corporate Procurement team.
You'll provide end to end stakeholder support through building key relationships internally across ScottishPower and the Iberdrola Group, particularly in Spain, and externally with a range of suppliers from local SMEs to global strategic partners.
We will look for you to cover all aspects of procurement strategy through to contract award and supporting contract management including supplier and market research, pre-qualification, tendering, negotiation of contracts and analysis and presentation of proposals that are in the best interests of the Company.
This is in addition to establishing the commercial effectiveness of services and works, aligning processes, undertaking risk management and control, and supplying insights through management information and reporting.
You'll Lead the commercial aspects of tendering, contract negotiations and managing commercial and contractual activities both pre-contract and where appropriate post contract to ensure delivery of high-quality procurement solutions and service are achieved.
Working in the Corporate Procurement team you will be responsible for tendering a wide variety of contracts for stakeholders across the entire ScottishPower Group.
To join, you'll understand both tactical and strategic procurement principles, practices and processes – being confident to develop appropriate contracting strategies and tendering and negotiating important one-off contracts and framework agreements that meet the business timescales and specifications.
We are looking for candidates who have proven tender experience in either a procurement team or commercial contract management team and who are keen to develop and progress their current skills within the procurement sector.
Being a confident Procurement professional, you are self-driven, analytically strong and are able to prioritise and manage multiple tenders independently.
You are a strong communicator who can persuade, challenge, and build credibility with key stakeholders and strive to deliver results.
You are team oriented and enjoy the improving and sharing of best practices with others.All of this will be supported by your adaptability to change, attention to detail, working to timelines and confidence in the use of Microsoft Excel to work with formulae and calculations.
What's in it for youFrom helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future, and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow.
ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy.
With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we're at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen.
With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.
Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do.Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve.
It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.
ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support.
Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country.
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