Develop and execute the sourcing strategy for all the Carbon Clean product lines with a specific focus on building and managing the supplier portfolio for Engineering-Procurement-Fabrication (EPF) supply.
Key Responsibilities and Outcomes
- Develop and execute a sourcing strategy that will meet Carbon Clean business needs (capacity, price, service levels) for the EPF supplier base
- Lead all the activities within the strategic sourcing process and ensure cooperation with key stakeholders, from suppliers scouting, selection and approval, contracting and phase-out
- Lead all the contracting activities with the approved vendors and achieve Master Service Agreements, Strategic Supply & Purchase Agreements, Price list agreements, Capacity agreements
- Monitor commodities and supply market trends, develop and maintain a should cost model for key selected products and services to minimize TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). Proactively engage with suppliers on action plans to meet Carbon Clean product and service cost targets
- Monitor suppliers performance on Capacity, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Lead Time metrics, and ensure action plans are developed and executed to meet the performance targets
- Develop a supply chain risk mitigation plan as an integral part of the sourcing strategy and lead its execution to de-risk supply chain operations
- Establish and sustain key supplier relations and ensure suppliers performance reviews and business reviews are regularly performed to meet contracted capacity and level of service
- Be part of our continuous improvement expertise – we are currently developing fundamental supply chain practises and require innovative and thoughtful input via utilisation of relevant experience.
To be successful in this role you should have a combination of the below knowledge, skills, and experience:
- Experience and track record in an equivalent role leading strategic sourcing or procurement activities within a comparable industry
- Experience and track record in setting up strategic partnerships with suppliers and negotiating master service agreements and strategic supply agreements
- A strategic thinker with excellent negotiation and communication skills
- Great analytical capability with a solution-oriented problem solving mindset
- Self-guided, self-organized and proactive team player
- MSc in Engineering or Business Administration
- Certification from APICS (CSPS), ISM (CPSM) or similar body considered a plus
- Willingness to travel (up to 2 weeks a month)
We give you
- The opportunity to continue to develop both personally and professionally, in our rapidly growing company
- A brilliant company culture that encourages initiative, collaboration, and positivity at work
- Great office environment in our new London HQ, close to the South Bank, and Waterloo, Blackfriars and London Bridge stations
- Hybrid working – with the flexibility to work from home for up to 3 days a week
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Private Healthcare (family cover available for all colleagues)
- Health Cash Plan
- Income Protection and Critical Illness Cover
- Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programme
- Generous pension contribution – minimum of 5% contributed by the company
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Employee Perks scheme
- Support towards professional qualification and memberships
Equal Opportunities
We are passionate and committed to our people. Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive movement: teams of forward-thinking people, with unique talents, skills, passions, and experiences. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage everyone to join us, whatever your gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, life experience, or background. So please come as you are – we can’t wait to meet you.
We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!
What We Do
Carbon Clean is an established global leader in industrial carbon capture solutions helping essential, but hard-to-abate, industries decarbonise. Our innovative solutions significantly reduce the costs and environmental impacts of carbon capture compared to conventional technologies.
Technology to achieve 'net zero'.
