Vacancy: Lead Senior Buyers, Capital Projects

Urenco is an international supplier of enrichment services and fuel cycle products for the civil nuclear industry, serving utility customers worldwide who provide low carbon electricity through nuclear generation. 

Job Grade: F

The Lead Senior Buyers will provide leadership to the Capital Projects Procurement Team, representing Group Procurement in the UK / NL / D / USA. The role holder will also provide local commercial management of Capital Project Procurement Strategies and activities acting as the Team Lead Senior Buyer.

Key responsibilities include:

• This is a dual role operating within a matrix organisation providing day to day management of the local procurement team
• Performance manage the delivery of individuals targets in the local team in cooperation with Capital Project Procurement Manager
• Manage the relationship between Group Projects, Group Procurement and local site teams. Ensuring that Procurement is fully engaged with the site and there is joint alignment of objectives. Build SME relationships to manage spend locally
• Ensure local P2P service levels are managed by making resources available as necessary and helping prioritisation, liaising with the Operations Team Lead to improve efficiency of the process
• Select contracting methodologies and suppliers, executing contracts to deliver the objectives of major/complex capital investment projects

Skills and Education:

• Degree (or equivalent)  

• CIPS qualification (or equivalent)

• Commercial Management of an area of spend in a category management environment (essential)

• Team leadership in a matrix type organisation (essential)

• Management of senior stakeholder relationships (essential)
• Can work autonomously (essential)
• Large complex capital projects procurement experience (€100m+) (desirable)
• Large project coordination experience (desirable)

Don’t meet every single requirement? The real fit for a job is not always in your current experience or education. We are striving towards strong, diverse and complementary teams, in an inclusive and authentic workplace. So if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles and we would like to meet you!