Category Procurement Manager - Select Plant Hire

Location - Dartford/Manchester / St Neots (Flexible WFH Options Provided)

Permanent, Full time (Part time considered)

Are you a procurement professional with experience of procuring plant and equipment? Do you want to work for a well-structured, high performing procurement team? Then Select Plant Hire has an opportunity for you in our procurement team.

The Category Procurement Manager will work across a specialist plant hire business unit and be responsible for supporting the business growth and project delivery for a specified list of categories of subcontracts and capital equipment. It would be advantageous to have knowledge in one of the following areas -

• Depot improvement works
• Hoist
• Cranes
• Lifting consumables

Key Capabilities and Responsibilities:

• Proactively manage vendor selection and manage performance
• A strong procurement background
• Commercial negotiation and order management
• Strategic development along with strong commercial business acumen to create compelling category plans - balancing cost, quality and risks;
• Assisting with bids
• Proactively execute category plans using strategic sourcing methodology
• Build and develop mutually beneficial relationships with your key suppliers to identify opportunities and ideas
• Deliver internal and external customer satisfaction whilst maintaining unimpeachable professional standards.

About us:

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it.

Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

Diversity & Sustainability:

We value and care about difference at Laing O'Rourke and believe a diverse team drives innovation.

We are a global multicultural business committed to the inclusion of all employees, enabling everyone to feel accepted, respected & valued for being themselves.

We have set out far-reaching global sustainability targets including a commitment to achieve equal numbers of men and women amongst our global staff by 2033.

Additional:

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please contact us.