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About the Role

The Procurement Lead is accountable for delivering procurement activities and managing a team to handle significant procurements. This role involves close collaboration with colleagues to develop and execute procurement strategies, often balancing competing priorities. Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills are essential for success.

Responsibilities

Responsible for the delivery of procurements, ensuring alignment with HS2 objectives and wider benefits.
Develop key components of ITP and ITT documentation to agreed timelines, securing necessary approvals.
Responsible for achieving governance approval and assurance of all procurement deliverables.
Manage procurement evaluation processes, ensuring approvals for short-listing and contract award.
Ensure HS2’s procurement activities comply with UK legislation and set a benchmark for future projects.
Manage a Senior Procurement Manager and Procurement Manager, ensuring quality-assured output.
Provide accurate and timely procurement reporting and management information.
Present to boards and committees as required, responding to challenge and scrutiny.
Understand key commercial drivers and commercial success criteria for procurements.
Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work activities.

Requirements

Procurement Act 2023 and other related regulations.
Awareness of government initiatives and policies with ability to assess relevancy and defend applicability.
Experience working with or for publicly funded bodies including central government departments.
Knowledge of different forms of contract and risk allocation.
Experience in procurement strategy development.
Experience in project management and planning.
Experience in procurement processes.
Experience in risk & value management.
Experience with procurement systems.
Experience in negotiation.
Experience in contract development.
Experience procuring large value complex heavy civils / construction or similar works/services in compliance with the Utilities Contracts Regulations or Procurement Act 2023.
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.
Commercial expertise to ensure value for money is secured and demonstrated.
Sponsor / Stakeholder relationship and management experience, with communication and influencing skills.
Experience undertaking procurements using different pricing/risk options dependent on desired outcome and market conditions.
Experience in motivating and leading a team of procurement professionals alongside peers and other senior managers.
Experience in leading teams, managing/coaching numerous staff in their career development.
Behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and and Respect.
Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

Skills

Analytical, commercial and negotiating skills for complex propositions.
Skilled in compiling robust procurement strategies, tender and commercial documents.
Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy.
Ability to develop, implement, realise and embed innovation, value for money and benefits realisation within the process and contracts.
Ability to act as a mentor to others.
Internal and external stakeholder engagement skills.
Communication skills along with the confidence to interface with senior colleagues and stakeholders.
Ability to generate a range of ideas or solutions to address problems or make improvements.
Ability to consult and involve others in ideas and concepts, defending area’s position as necessary, recognising 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.
Ability to drive excellence in staff leadership and management skills.
Ability to view and convey the role of procurement as a facilitator and conduit to progress and results, rather than an obstacle.

Location

Birmingham
London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply or equivalent (Desirable)

Salary/Compensations

£79,035pa - c.£92,982pa (Birmingham)
£85,358pa - c.£100,421pa (London)

Benefits

Flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable.
Range of competitive benefits available on the company website.

About the Company

HS2 Ltd will be the UK’s new high speed rail network, improving capacity, shortening journey times, boosting the economy and creating 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.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. 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.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.

Equal Opportunity

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.
We are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
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 anonymised 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.