Procurement Officer

Equans is a renowned energies & services contractor and a proud member of the Bouygues global industrial group. Our expertise spans the design, construction, and maintenance of buildings and critical infrastructure worldwide.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Officer to join our highly successful facilities management business primarily supporting our healthcare, education and government sites based out of our head office in Waterloo.

Key Activities:

• To be involved in procuring, tendering and negotiation of all materials, consultancy works, and subcontract works for building solar farms and EPC (Energy Performance contracting) projects
• Develop a national and global supply chain partners to suit the demand
• Ensure compliance with objective budget, project requirement, technical specification, safety, health and environment requirements of materials and subcontract works
• Provide support with contract management including the preparation, negotiation, execution, compliance, storage, and communication across all departments
• Support with the supplier relationship management of the supply chain
• Provide procurement advice to project team, with an emphasis on operational support
• To provide day to day support to the site operations team, following up procurement enquiries and problem solving with supply chains
• Assist the Procurement Manager and Senior Procurement Officer when required
• Develop key commodity management analysis to enable to carry out tenders efficiently and develop expertise on the dedicated categories (by following the 7 key steps of Category Management)
• Consistently monitoring the trade specific marketplace to ensure awareness of pricing trends, risks and opportunities
• Working 40 hours per week from 08:45 to 17:45, Monday to Friday

Skills, experience, and qualifications:

• Experience in supply chain management is essential
• Knowledge of operational purchasing and supply practice, policies and procedures
• Good level of numeracy with experience in cost analysis
• Strong negotiation skills and proven experience of tendering and contracting practices
• MCIPS qualifications (or working towards) is desirable
• Facilities Management experience is beneficial

Our excellent benefits package includes:

• Generous holiday allowance
• Company share scheme
• 2 paid volunteering days a year
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Employee assistance programme

Who are we?

EQUANS is a world leader in energy services with nearly 100,000 employees working in more than 50 countries, with an annual turnover of over 17 billion euros.  

In the UK & Ireland, EQUANS is a provider of technical, FM, regeneration and energy services – with specialist capabilities in smart buildings, green mobility, district & embedded energy and decentralised renewables.

EQUANS’ 13,500 UK & Ireland employees combine these activities to help businesses, public sector organisations and government to embrace the energy transition towards net zero, and also the digital & industrial transitions that are redesigning the way we move, work and live.

EQUANS is a Bouygues group company.

What’s next?

If this role is of interest to you, please click below to register, apply, and track your progress! A member of our Resourcing Team will review your application and be in touch.

At Equans we’re committed to delivering a culture where everyone’s voice is heard and supported. We know the value a diverse workforce creates, delivering better results for our people, customers, and stakeholders. Diversity and inclusion is at the core of what we do, should you join Equans you’ll find a welcoming and open workplace where you’re supported and encouraged to be your true self at work. You’ll also have access to our growing employee networks including WiE (Women in Equans), RISE (BAME), LGBTQI+, Working Parents, YPN (Young Professionals Network) and our Disability Network.

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer a re-location package with this job role.  Certain roles may require applicants to undergo a Disclosure check, as noted in the role requirements.

The EQUANS Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to EQUANS Managers.