Supply Chain Specialist – Bidding
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Beth Adams
We are a £2BN global defence and security company delivering mission-critical solutions that protect lives and enable operational advantage. Our vision is “to be the chosen partner around the world innovating for our customers’ advantage”. To do this, we combine deep technical expertise with a bold approach to innovation – helping our customers solve complex challenges across land, sea, air, space and cyber. We employ circa 8,000 people in 50 locations across the UK, Europe, US and Australia.
About Procurement and Supply Chain
Finance is a Global Group Function with Procurement and Supply Chain, a key department, reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer and influencing £1BN spend across directs and indirects. The Procurement and Supply Chain department has several key pillars including Business Partnering, Category Management, Supply Chain, Responsible Procurement and Operational Excellence.
To deliver QinetiQ’s five-year growth strategy, we need to foster and enable a progressive mindset. We aspire to be a key business enabler and a value creator. To do this we need to shape and influence stakeholder strategies, drive value, deliver excellence and manage supply chain opportunities and risk.
Supply Chain Bidding Team
The Supply Chain Bidding Team supports all business winning activity at QinetiQ across both its UK Defence and UK Intelligence Sectors, covering Maritime and Land, Air, Science and Technology, Mission Systems, Mission Cyber Solutions, and Digital Intelligence. We provide end-to-end procurement support to strategic campaigns, major captures, frameworks and other complex bidding activities. We ensure supply chain is embedded early to enable value creation and the shaping and influencing of innovative, compliant, competitive supply chain solutions that meet customer and business needs.
We are a team of approx. 14 working closely together to support and enable each other to succeed. Active coaching is embedded, and we share the load and solve problems together. We celebrate individual and collective wins and treat setbacks as opportunities to learn.
Over the last year we have supported over 200 bids with a total contract value of £2b and a supply chain value of £500m.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading and/or supporting the supply chain activity within your bids
- Providing procurement expertise to stakeholders and the wider business
- Leading supply chain discussions with suppliers and partners
- Defining, planning and executing cost effective, commercially sound procurement solutions and subcontracts
- Ensuring procurement solutions are customer focused, meet program timescales and technical requirements.
- Identifying and executing opportunities to increase engagement with SMEs (Small & Medium Enterprises)
- Identifying and mitigating risks to ensure a successful end to end solution
- Supporting supply chain processes and ensuring compliance with business governance
- Developing an excellent understanding of the industry to improve procurement solutions and identify opportunities
- Collaborating with peers to develop and enhance systems and processes and share best practice knowledge
Key Person Attributes
- A clear, adaptable communicator who builds trust quickly
- Collaborative and comfortable working across hybrid teams
- Good listening skills and able to focus on issues that are critical to senior leaders
- Detail-oriented, analytical, and able to present information with clarity
- Curious, resilient and energized by transformation and change
- Role-models integrity and a growth mindset
- Challenges existing ways of working where efficiencies can be identified and contributes to the team’s development
Experience and Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent professional experience / An interest in pursuing MCIPS qualification
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- An interest in how to leverage technology to support the Supply Chain & Procurement function
- Skilled in the use of MS applications (Word, PowerPoint, Teams, Excel, Outlook, OneNote)
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