Ux/Ui Developer (React, Html5, Energy Industry)

Form of Employment: Permanent
Start Date: Immediate
Location: Waterloo, Hybrid (3 days a week in office)

Role Summary

Aubay is looking for a Strategic Sourcing Consultant, to join our team within our client’s Information and Digital Engineering department, in this role, you will serve as a vital connection between internal stakeholders and third-party suppliers. Your primary responsibilities will include developing and executing sourcing strategies aligned with business objectives, optimizing costs, and fostering effective supplier relationships. This role emphasizes the importance of leadership, communication, and analytical skills to drive strategic sourcing initiatives and ensure supplier performance meets our standards.

You will be acting as the co-pilot to the IT Strategic Sourcing Manager. This is a collective effort to drive a competitive workforce that aligns the strategic goals – ensuring that we optimise IT costs with a sharp focus on competitiveness and performance while maintaining our commitment to excellence.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Strategic Sourcing and/or procurement, demonstrating successful supplier management and cost savings.
• Great leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent analytical, negotiation and communication skills.
• Attention to detail and strong organisational skills.
• Proven track record of managing complex sourcing projects.
• Effective communication, presentation and negotiation skills to engage with senior management level, to get buy-in and commitment from internal and external stakeholders.
• Build and maintain a strong network of Senior Stakeholders across the organisation.
• Self-starter and quick to understand a team’s dynamic.
• Ability to perform in a complex, high-tech, corporate, and multi-cultural environment.
• Proficiency in analysing and interpreting complex data and Analytical Dashboards (PowerBI) into innovative sourcing solutions.
• Excellent in writing strategy documents/business plans.
• Mastery in building effective PowerPoint presentations.
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and managing competing priorities.
• Ability to thrive in environments with risk and uncertainty

Role Responsibilities

• Sourcing Strategy: Develop and execute sourcing strategies that align with business portfolio goals, including cost reduction, quality improvement and supplier diversification.
• Supplier Management: Identify, evaluate, and manage supplier relationships to ensure a reliable and cost-effective strategy. This includes conducting supplier performance reviews.
• Cost Analysis: Analyse supplier costs, market trends, and industry benchmarks to identify cost-saving opportunities and make data-driven sourcing decisions.
• Risk Management: Assess and mitigate risks, including supplier disruptions, delivery quality issues and compliance concerns.
• Leadership & Soft Skills: Manage a complex network of senior stakeholders, providing guidance, coaching and support to achieve defined business goals.
• Liaise with Contracting & Procurement counterparts to agree with changes in the sourcing process, suppliers, performance evaluation and supporting rate-card negotiations.
• Proactively lead day-to-day engagements with IT business stakeholders (including owning agenda of interactions), follow through and track all actions and communications for full transparency to ensure agile and seamless execution of IT sourcing models.
• Market Research: Making informed sourcing decisions, keeping awareness of industry trends, emerging technologies, and supplier developments.
• Continuous Improvement: Implement process improvements to enhance sourcing efficiency and effectiveness, such as implementing supplier ecosystems and innovative initiatives, assessments, benchmarks and market scans based on data analytics

Role Accountabilities

• Ensure integration between operational processes, tactical plan and Strategic Sourcing execution.
• Facilitate Supplier and Stakeholder engagements, ensure meeting effectiveness and supplier performance evaluation.
• Collaborate with Contract & Procurement counterparts to ensure compliance through the entire lifecycle of the strategic sourcing process.
• Drive sourcing development with senior stakeholders and external relationships within a cluster of strategic suppliers.
• Optimise data-driven strategies to identify and address sourcing issues and cost-saving opportunities.
• Prepare materials for Quarterly Partnership Reviews and understand the technology capabilities and IT sourcing needs.
• Ensure integration between operational processes and strategic sourcing strategy execution, team performance and delivery to business IT.

About Aubay UK – Ahead of Innovation!

Aubay UK is a recognised InSourcing Partner for client-side deployment delivered across London. Our team, based in Canary Wharf, specialises in hiring IT professionals within London’s Energy and FinTech sectors, helping our clients to expand their operations with top-tier talent who are experts in their fields. We work exclusively with clients who are globally recognized as Energy Super Majors/Financial Services and innovative FinTech players.

Aubay UK is the most recently started branch of Aubay Group www.aubay.com. Aubay Group is an international Digital Services Company, listed on a Euronext Stock Exchange, who have been operating for 21 years in the European market and working alongside some of the biggest names in the Banking, Finance, Insurance, Energy, IT/Digital, Manufacturing, Transport and Telecoms sectors. With over 7,800 employees across 7 countries and 16 offices in England, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, Aubay Group generated revenues of €513 million in 2022.

What Aubay UK Offers

At Aubay UK, people are at the heart of our business. We offer a competitive remuneration package which includes a range of benefits. You will receive continuous support from our dedicated team of Talent Acquisition Specialists who will support your career development and success during your assignment with our client. Other benefits include:

● 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays

● Pension scheme

● Work from home opportunities

● Access to Udemy training platform and conferences

● Perkbox employee discount scheme

● Discount on winter sports holiday at www.aero1607.com

● Opportunity to work directly for the client at the end of assignment

Our Client

Our client is one of the Super Major global energy companies with around 84,000 employees across 70+ countries who are working to power progress through cleaner energy solutions.

Specialties: Upstream/Downstream, Bio-Fuels, Integrated Gas, New Energies, Chemicals, Energy and Trading.

You will have the opportunity to work in a challenging but rewarding environment that is fast paced and changing fundamentally, and work towards transforming the business of a Super Major energy company to meet the ambition to be a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, whilst delivering a world class business case that has a strong societal license to operate. In your role you will be expected to enact change and deliver value globally across business lines and geographies.

This role requires you to be based in the UK and have the right to work in the UK. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Aubay UK is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment decisions will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: From £70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Referral programme
• Store discount
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

• Do you require sponsorship by your employer to work in the UK?
• Please include a link to your LinkedIn profile.
• Do you have previous experience within the Energy Industry and/or experience working in a trading environment?

Experience:

• Front-end development: 5 years (required)
• UI development: 3 years (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London, SE1 8SW

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