Procurement and Supply Chain Manager – Work Winning

Overview

In this role you will support the Client PPQ stage through mobilisation as the P&SC point of contact during tender processes, ensuring compliance with Costain Way policies and standards. You will lead and manage work winning and bid procurement to meet governance and project requirements, delivering professional, ethical, transparent procurement with best value. You will work to embed inclusivity, innovation and lessons learned across procurement activities while maintaining robustness under pressure. You will collaborate with bid teams and stakeholders on strategies, price build-up and supplier selection to enable successful project delivery in an infrastructure context.

Responsibilities

• Support the Procurement & Supply Chain Manager in delivering project, procurement, and supply chain objectives during bids
• Assist bid teams in developing procurement strategies and supplier selection for winning projects
• Support estimating in price build-up and translate bid-stage intelligence into project delivery
• Manage internal and external stakeholder relationships to reflect project requirements in procurement
• Ensure supply chain assurance to meet group, project, and package requirements
• Apply procurement and supply chain processes with inclusiveness and diverse thinking
• Support sustainable procurement objectives and participate in supply chain events
• Assist bid teams in responding to P&SC technical competency questions

Key requirements

• Significant procurement and supply chain experience supporting tenders, bid winning, and estimating
• Working knowledge of digital procurement tendering systems
• Demonstrable negotiating skills and ability to secure best value
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Experience on infrastructure projects
• Experience using electronic tendering tools (e.g., Jaggaer, SourceDogg)
• Experience on civil engineering projects
• Practical, logical approach
• Knowledge of office management systems and document control
• Strong analytical skills
• Legal, contractual, and construction knowledge
• Knowledge and application of NEC contracts
• Ability to maintain a measured approach in a dynamic environment
• Confidence to assert influence

• excellent communication
• influencing skills
• ability to work under pressure
• digital procurement tendering systems
• electronic tendering tools (Jaggaer, SourceDogg)
• NEC contracts

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