Procurement Pricing Manager

Job Reference: /EE/30-01/1058/7

Job Title: Procurement Pricing Manager

Location: Ipswich

Salary: Competitive

Hours per week: Monday to Friday - 37.5 hours per week

Business Overview

Atalian Servest and OCS have merged to create a new organisation, the OCS Group UK & Ireland. We are a leading facilities management company providing a range of both standalone and integrated services including cleaning, catering, security, technical services, energy management and compliance, front of house, landscaping, logistics, waste management and pest control services. The company has a turnover of £1.5bn and operates across the UK and Ireland with 50,000 colleagues delivering innovative award-winning services to the private and public sectors and supporting the local communities in which it operates.

Role Overview

We are currently recruiting for a Procurement Pricing Manager to join our passionate and driven team.

Reporting to the Head of Hard FM Procurement, the Procurement Pricing Manager role is a critical supporting role between the category and estimating teams with primary responsibility for issuing information to the supply chain to obtain competitive costing, utilizing the knowledge of the Category managers and their developed preferred suppliers. Ensuring that the business is working toward the newly formed category strategies. The ability to analyse the responses, report the data back in an organized format and provide information to understand possible risks and make recommendations on where to source services based on the data provided. Negotiating total value and obtaining Best and Final offers from the supply chain to enter into bids for new work.

Benefits

• Informal hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Free fruit in our offices
• Employee Referral Scheme (if you refer a successful candidate to one of our vacancies)
• Wide range of retail discounts
• Regular social and charity events are held in our offices
• Get involved in charity events in the local community

Wellbeing

• Discounted gym membership
• Eye test £25 voucher and up to £100 towards glasses
• Join our Cycle to Work scheme via salary sacrifice
• Access to “CHROMA”, our internal colleague-led diversity and inclusion community – join a committee or take part in our D&I initiatives and events
• Access to internal Mental Health First Aiders

Career development and recognition

• Immediate access to “Opportunity” our internal Learning and Development platform
• Required professional membership fees paid for
• Opportunity to win monthly Atalian Servest Superstar Awards
• Long service awards

Key Responsibilities:

Functional

• Communicating with supply chain and requesting pricing for new opportunities and re-bidding of existing client contracts.
• Requesting information and quotations from subcontractors
• Reviewing queries from subcontractors, directing to the technical expert to enable a response to be sent
• Reviewing quotations from subcontractors against client specifications
• Issuing the quotations to procurement category leads to enable negotiations to take place to receive BAFO from supply chain
• Facilitate meetings between, Ops, estimating and procurement for alignment.
• Utilise the PSL provided by category managers to develop costing detail, feedback relevant detail to category owners to retain buying power and build strategy.
• Request capacity detail to ensure PSL able to deliver increased workload
• Providing excellent stakeholder management by phone and email to internal stakeholders
• Able to own and present data back to the business
• Understand clear security requirements for intended client and only quote those vendors
• Understand and map out national and local supply chain options
• Reviewing local SME’s and identifying gaps in the supply chain to request new options from the category managers.
• Able to manipulate data to show best options based upon pricing data, and historical performance metrics provided by the category managers
• Develop a recommendation for sourcing
• Review historical information to build a robust process for future improvement

General

• Avoid conflict of interests between personal interests and the interests of the UK & Ireland group.
• Exercise independent judgment, reasonable care, skill and diligence when carrying out their duties.
• Act in good faith and promote the long-term success of each company within the UK & Ireland group for the benefit of all members and wider stakeholders.
• Adhere to and promote the UK & Ireland group’s policies on equality & diversity, information security, health and safety and data protection in the performance of their duties and the management of the departmental functions reporting into them.
• Support and promote the UK & Ireland group’s sustainability plans and policies, including the Carbon Management Plan, and carry out duties in a resource effective way, recognizing the shared responsibility of minimizing negative environmental impacts wherever possible.

About You:

• Applicants must have the right to work in the UK

Necessary

• Results driven with a flair for negotiation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Data focused with a proven track record for generating opportunities.
• A strong team player with the ability to work in a cross-functional team.
• Ability to build sustainable and productive relationships with suppliers
• Uses data and market research to make recommendations for improvement

Desirable

• CIPS qualification

Core Expectations