Senior Procurement Consultant - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Scottish Power

Scottish Power
Scottish Power
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Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Job Title Senior Procurement Consultant

  • Location Glasgow
  • Salary up to £53000, up to 10% bonus and health cover
  • Flexible Working Pattern


  • Closing Date 03/04/202

  • Help us create a better future, _quicker_
  • As a Senior Procurement Consultant, you'll provide competitive advantage and cost reductions in the acquisition of goods, works and services through procurement and supply chain activities. This will include the management of suppliers and the negotiation of high value complex contracts within our Corporate Procurement team.
  • What _you'll_ be doing_
  • You'll provide end to end stakeholder support through building key relationships internally across ScottishPower and the Iberdrola Group, particularly in Spain, and externally with a range of suppliers from local SMEs to global strategic partners. We will look for you to cover all aspects of procurement strategy through to contract award and supporting contract management including supplier and market research, prequalification, tendering, negotiation of highvalue and complex contracts, and analysis and presentation of proposals that are in the best interests of the Company. This is in addition to establishing commercial effectiveness of projects, aligning processes, undertaking risk management and control, and supplying project insights through management information and reporting.


Leading in the delivery of projects to ensure a high-quality service is achieved, being able to use your knowledge and expertise to develop high-quality procurement solutions for your business area, while actively engaging in the negotiation and any mobilisation of the project-based work.


Working in the Corporate Procurement team you will be responsible for tendering a wide variety of contracts for stakeholders across the entire ScottishPower Group.

From Corporate service contracts (Fleet, buildings refurb, civils projects, recruitment, training, security, maintenance and marketing to IT contracts (software, hardware and support services including strategic developments for cyber security and OT infrastructure)

  • What _you'll_ bring_


To join, you'll understand both tactical and strategic procurement principles, practices and processes - being confident to develop appropriate contracting strategies and tendering and negotiating important one-off contracts and framework agreements that meet the business timescales and specifications.

You know procurement - supplier engagement and development, pre-qualification, tendering, commercial management and negotiation.

Being a confident Procurement professional, you are self-driven, analytically strong and are able to prioritise and manage multiple projects independently.

You are a strong communicator who can persuade, challenge, and build credibility with key stakeholders and strive to deliver results.

You are team oriented and enjoy the improving and sharing of best practices with others.

All of this will be supported by your adaptability to change, attention to detail, working to timelines and confidence in the use of Microsoft Excel to work with formulae and calculations.


  • Why ScottishPower_
  • ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we're at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.
Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do.

Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve.

It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.- .

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April-3-2024
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