Siemens Smart Infrastructure – Develop what will be important tomorrow. We’re looking for people with the skills and vision to build a better tomorrow. Join our Smart-Infrastructure business unit as a Procurement Project Lead (PPL) and help us re-imagine the world by finding solutions and making the world a smarter place for tomorrow. As the Project Procurement Lead you'll be an individual contributor supporting two business unit on a day-to-day basis with project tenders, bids and other PPL activities (more details below). This role will give you the opportunity to fully immerse yourself in the teams that you will support and allow you to get actively involved in securing orders and delivering them in an efficient and professional manner. Siemens recognise that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements and workplace adjustments with all our applicants. See our flexibility culture here. Travel and Location This role is based in South Tyneside, with the potential need to travel 20% of the time where our suppliers are based around the UK. In return, you’ll get the chance to work with teams impacting entire cities, countries – and the shape of things to come. Future thinker? Read on As our Project Procurement Lead, you will · Integrates procurement in the project management process (PM@Siemens) and organises, controls and monitors all procurement activities in a project. · To develop and drive the procurement strategy of assigned activities to ensure cost effective purchasing to meet cost targets and expediting to meet programme. · Develop & deliver procurement strategy for allocated projects, issue RFQ’s, conduct negotiation with suppliers, drive the selection process and raise/issue purchase orders in accordance with procurement procedures, to meet objectives. (Typically, up to £5 million). · Act as Commodity leader for specified “strategic” commodities, in line with experience, with the objective of securing best value solutions. · Develop closer relationships with key suppliers. · Build upon the positive relationships already developed with other divisions in the UK, identifying ‘Best Practices’ and motivating the businesses to achieve critical goals. · Keep the project team aware of market trends relevant to their business and contribute to inter-departmental relationships by providing information and advice as necessary. · Find opportunities to maximise the benefits of e-Business solutions, SAP functionality and the introduction and implementation of new initiatives. · Play an active role in the tendering process applicable to business unit to enable cost competitive offering to customers whilst ensuring compliance with procurement process. · Actively identify and raise awareness of potential supply chain issues and instigate actions to mitigate. · Lead quality and delivery of all purchases to project timescales, objectives and equipment specification. · Actively support the Procurement Managers objectives to ensure the goals of the organisation are delivered and provide a lead for others in the Procurement team. We are looking for super minds, not superheroes. We are looking for an experienced Procure Procurement professonal, with experience Installation, commissioning engineering or civil works experience. You will have had Commercial / contractual experience in negotiating Terms and Conditions for: Individual Purchases up to £5M in Value, Management of Commodities with spend up to £5M per annum and negotiation of Frameworks with spend over £10M per annum. Knowledge of purchasing techniques and skills associated with the procurement of manufacturing and project equipment, goods and services and sound knowledge of contract law, with practical experience of their application to procurement projects are all a must. A growth mindset and a passion for learning is essential. Ideally qualified or part qualified CIPS level 6 or working towards MCIPS. We’ve got quite a lot to offer. How about you? Smart infrastructure enables the way we want to live - happily, comfortably, sustainably and in harmony. We do this from physical products, components, and systems to connected, cloud-based digital offerings and service. From intelligent grid control and electrification to smart storage solutions, from building automation and control systems to switches, valves, and sensors. It’s incredibly important that our people enjoy working here and therefore we take great pride in having a friendly, helpful, and engaging culture. We also appreciate that development and training is important to many and that’s why we have an encouraging environment which invests in our employee’s development, whether that’s Chartership, training or mentoring. If we all thought the same, we would never think of anything new. That’s why we recruit great minds from all backgrounds. Siemens encourage applications from a diverse talent pool. We have partnered with VERCIDA, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexible working requirements with you. And if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made to enable you to participate in the recruitment process, please let us know via our FAQ section here: [https://new.siemens.com/uk/en/company/jobs/faq.html]. #LI-NS Organization: Smart Infrastructure Company: Siemens plc Experience Level: not defined Job Type: Full-time