Procurement Specialist

Are you an experienced Procurement professional who enjoys working in an engaging and collaborative environment? Have you demonstrated your ability to improve overall commercial value, and can you bring these skills to Drax?

If so, the Procurement Specialist role provides an exciting opportunity to join a fantastic new team here at Drax where you will support the important role Procurement has to play as Drax executes its strategy to be carbon negative by 2030.

About the role 

As an experienced procurement professional, you will thrive in a busy commercial environment. You'll build meaningful and strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to drive procurement excellence at every stage of the process.  

This is a fast-paced role, which requires attention to detail and working to tight deadlines. Ensuring compliance to policies and processes will enable you to drive commercial success in your role, in delivering results that meet the overall procurement strategy here at Drax.

Reporting directly to the Head of Procurement you’ll be part of the successful delivery of the overall procurement team goals. Day-to-day you'll be responsible for all aspects of the Source to Contract cycle while considering risk and cost, up to a value of c.£3M annually, per procurement/project. You’ll play a key role in the development and implementation of sourcing strategies to maximise value whilst ensuring the right level of governance is applied. You’ll also provide day to day procurement guidance and advice to other team members.

Building new relationships and working with a wide range of internal customers will be the key to success in this role. You’ll work closely with the wider procurement team, to ensure continuous improvement and best practice is shared throughout the team to optimise performance. As procurement Specialist you’ll be responsible for the line management and development of the Assistant Procurement Officer.

Drax is committed to developing its colleagues and in this procurement role we’d be happy to support World Contracting & Commerce certification (previously IACCM) and CIPS membership.  

About you

You’ll have strong technical procurement skills linked with an ability to drive best practice, alongside excellent negotiation skills and the ability to implement opportunities for innovation. You’ll be comfortable in proactively challenging stakeholders and demand, while providing a prompt, efficient and personalised service to internal customers at all levels. This is imperative, to ensure that customer needs are met, and productive relationships are built and maintained. You should also be effective in ensuring departmental policies and processes are communicated and followed.  

It is key that you are a self-starter with a ‘can do/will do’ attitude who has the energy, drive and commitment to make things happen and the ability to work collaboratively across teams and geographies to form alignment. The ability to identify key opportunities for Procurement support and prioritise workload effectively is essential.  

If you have CIPS/Project Management qualification that's great, however if you have demonstrable experience and strong performance in a similar role, we'd love to hear from you! 

About Drax     

At Drax, we’re at our best when we’re proactive, committed, and reliable – and trust others to be the same, so we are open to discussing hybrid working so you can be where you need to be. Some attendance may be required onsite therefore you must be able to commute to one of our UK offices in London, Northampton, Selby or Ipswich from time to time. 

Drax is playing a vital role in helping change the way energy is generated, supplied, and used. To learn more about how we are enabling zero carbon, lower cost energy future, please click here.    

Application Process 

To arrange a chat or a copy of the job description, please email char.brown@drax.com. 

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