Procurement Lead

Overview

As a Procurement Specialist at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Support the development and management of procurement strategies and individual procurement packages across data centre and construction projects.
• Coordinate the preparation, tendering and management of procurement packages, including defining scopes of work, specifications, commercial requirements and procurement schedules.
• Assist in the procurement and contract administration of architects, engineers, general contractors, specialist subcontractors and equipment vendors.
• Manage the procurement process from prequalification and tender issuance through bid evaluation, clarification, negotiation and award recommendations.
• Conduct commercial and technical bid analysis, assess supplier capabilities and negotiate pricing and contractual terms to achieve best value.
• Manage the development, finalisation and administration of contracts, ensuring accuracy, compliance and attention to detail.
• Create and manage requests for proposals (RFPs), purchase orders (POs), change orders and invoicing.
• Monitor procurement package progress against agreed schedules, budgets and project milestones, identifying potential delays, risks and opportunities for mitigation.
• Support the procurement and coordination of Owner Furnished Contractor Installed (OFCI) equipment packages, including tendering, supplier engagement and delivery coordination.
• Ensure all procurement, tender and contract documentation is accurately maintained, well organised and accessible.
• Assist with the onboarding of on-site supplier teams and foster positive supplier relationships through effective liaison with site and vendor teams.
• Benchmark industry trends, supplier capabilities and market pricing to maintain an informed view of the competitive landscape.
• Produce weekly reports and dashboards to monitor procurement progress, package status, commercial performance and supply chain risks.
• Conduct production planning and supplier capacity modelling as required.
• Lead and participate in key procurement and supplier meetings, monitoring progress and collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have at least 3 years' experience in a procurement or supply chain management role within a data centre, construction or engineering environment.
• Have a Bachelor's degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management or a related discipline.
• Have experience managing procurement packages, including tendering, bid evaluation, commercial negotiations and contract administration.
• Have previous experience with OFCI equipment procurement and RFPs.
• Understand construction procurement processes, contract structures, supplier management and commercial evaluation.
• Are an excellent communicator, both verbally and in writing.
• Are enthusiastic about being part of a global team and able to flex your hours to engage across regions and time zones.
• Adapt to new processes with agility and enthusiasm.
• Enjoy working in a dynamic environment, managing your own priorities and deadlines.
• Thrive on building strong relationships with colleagues, suppliers and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

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About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!