Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Salary: £40,000 per annum + Car Allowance
Working Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00 am - 17.00 pm (40 hours per week)
Benefits: Car Allowance, 25 days holidays + Bank holidays, Health Cash Plan, Discount Shopping, Gym, Days Out, Learning & Development opportunities, Paid Volunteering Days, plus many more.
About EMCOR UK:
At EMCOR UK, we revolutionise facilities management by combining our engineering heritage and innovation capability. We prioritise people in everything we do, collaborating closely with our customers to understand all their needs, from the big picture to day-to-day operations. Our purpose is to “create a better world at work”. Using our unique insight platform, "One Data World," we harness data-driven intelligence to make informed decisions, adapting our services to meet our customers’ evolving requirements. This allows us to cultivate an enhanced workplace experience for their teams whilst optimising efficiency, meticulously managing every asset, and minimising their impact on the planet. All supported by our commitment to safety, compliance, and assurance. Our partnering approach empowers our customers to shape a better future. Whether guiding their path to net zero or redeveloping their facilities for enhanced efficiency, we create better places for work whilst taking away the burden of facility operations, freeing up our customers to concentrate on their business.
Role Overview
The role will be part of the large EMCOR UK Procurement team, where you will collaborate with our senior stakeholders across Supply Chain, Procurement and Category Leads to ensure we deliver a robust and forward thinking supply chain solution to effectively deliver engineering excellence and a better world at work for our customers, colleagues and supply chain; and for the communities in which we work.
This role will be embedded into our EMCOR UK team on our Client site and will be responsible for all supply chain and procurement activity on the contract on both the strategy for FM and projects (Including but not limited to PPM service delivery, M&E, Fabric, Project Consultants).
There will be a need to travel across the UK to support the contract and to engage in supply chain visits and audits, company meetings, training etc.
What you'll do:
- Ensure we have a good supply chain, readily available to rely on, that delivers excellence to our customer sites with the right governance around the relationship to ensure performance standards are met.
- Ensure that all procurement activity is undertaken in line with the overall organisational strategy; category plan; account specific procurement plan and procurement best practice.
- Develop the procurement account strategy in partnership with the account team and take ownership to lead the delivery.
- Identify, select, develop and manage new supply chain to support future business through a rigorous evaluation process, ongoing performance measurement, contract review and benchmarking
- Negotiate and deliver cost savings through negotiation.
- Evidence value for money that can be demonstrated to our customers.
- Initiate a risk based approach to supplier tendering, selection and award, building in commercial analysis of tenders / negotiations to ensure caveats / assumptions are well managed; the correct financial model is used, and any KPIS / SLAs / Programme risk is negotiated and back-to-back with supply chain.
- Continuously analyse market trends, supplier performance and cost structures to identify risks and opportunities for improvement and implement risk mitigation strategies.
- Driving value for money by leading all supply chain negotiations and ensuring we remain competitive whilst maximising profit for EMCOR UK.
- Collaborate with Category team to develop wider relationships with specialist supply chain to suit product / service / geographical gaps and support growth opportunities to align with business need. Ensure supply chain is appropriately accredited and provides sufficient competition and value for money for all account needs.