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On behalf of AWE, we are looking for a Procurement Manager - (Inside IR35) for a 18-month contract based working on a hybrid basis and with an expectation of 1- 2 days attendance in the Reading office

What if you could work on something that you can’t test… but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge. That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day delivering important work, in support of the most important mission – keeping the nation safe.

AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.

As a Procurement Manager - (Inside IR35) your main responsibilities will be:

• Acting as a role model for health, safety, environmental and quality management. Ensure contracts are aligned to business safety and quality management systems and be an advocate of AWE behaviours.
• Establishing a high level of credibility and manage complex working relationships with internal and external parties including both commercial and government partners.
• Drive suppliers’ segmentation (quality, performance, risk) in accordance with the AWE Supplier Relationship Management Framework and drive SRM implementation, in collaboration with business stakeholders, for assigned suppliers
• Monitor and mitigate supplier risks (including Quality, Environmental & Health and Safety, supplier fragility as well as dependency on AWE and AWE dependency on the supplier), make corrective action plans for the identified risks
• Develop and implement Supplier Strategies for assigned key suppliers.
• Ensure contract control systems are robust and suitable to support all post contract commitments and satisfying the reporting/governance processes
• Ensuring legal compliance with contracts by monitoring changes in laws or regulations that may affect the company’s ability to meet its obligations and mitigate any potential conflict of interest or breach of company ethic’s policy.
• Ensure there is an effective contract reporting and engagement strategy in place to enable all key stakeholders to be aligned to contracts risks and opportunities.
• Identify and estimate the likelihood and impact of contract-related risk, establish mitigation methods aligned to business needs and track effectiveness of those mitigations
• Ensuring a robust SRM delivery plan is in place for all assigned critical suppliers

Essential:

• SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance
• General sourcing experience
• Public Procurement experience
• Sourcing experience
• PCR / PA23 experience
• NEC experience
• Stakeholder engagement experience

Desirable

• MCIPS / RICS
• Experience of using Jaggaer
• Defence / Nuclear experience
• Decommissioning experience

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, AWE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

AWE guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".