About the role
This role will lead on the management of sub-consultant frameworks and the supply base, supporting the category strategy for sub-consultants and project sourcing. The position ensures that frameworks are performance-led, aligned with category strategy, and integrated within consistent sourcing processes.
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Your role
Lead on Sub-Consultant Frameworks & Supply Base
- Maintain and refresh sub-consultant frameworks to reflect market capacity and business needs.
- Design and operate supplier performance criteria, refresh cycles, and escalation routes.
- Introduce performance tracking and use insights to drive improvement and supply-base optimisation.
- Ensure frameworks are actively used, reducing maverick sourcing and improving mobilisation speed.
- Identify capacity gaps, capability risks, and opportunities to streamline the supply base.
Support Category Strategy Management for Sub-Consultants
- Support the definition of in-house vs outsource principles.
- Provide supply-base insight to inform decision-making playbooks.
- Ensure category strategy inputs are aligned with framework structure and performance data.
- Coordinate across technical, commercial, and capacity stakeholders to shape category strategy.
Support Standardised, Auditable Project Sourcing
- Assist in defining mandatory sourcing steps and audit-ready documentation requirements.
- Ensure frameworks integrate with standardised sourcing pathways.
- Provide supplier and framework insights to improve sourcing quality and defensibility.
- Support continuous refinement of sourcing processes based on lessons learned.
- Provide guidance on ERP use for all sourcing activities.
About you
- 5+ years’ experience in procurement, category management, or supplier management.
- Experience managing frameworks or preferred supplier lists.
- Strong understanding of sourcing governance and audit requirements.
- Strong analytical capability and ability to interpret performance data.
- Experience with ERP/SRM platforms (SAP/Ariba or similar).
- Strong communication skills and ability to coordinate across teams.
- Skills in Supplier & Category Management, Analytical & Commercial Insight, Stakeholder Engagement, Governance & Compliance Discipline, Performance & Risk Management, Collaboration & Teamwork.
- Ability to ensure timely framework refresh and performance tracking cycles.
- Ensure compliance with sourcing governance and audit requirements.
- Achieve supplier performance improvement outcomes and reduce off-framework sourcing.
- Foster stakeholder satisfaction and delivery quality.
Rewards & benefits
Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive at every stage of your life and career, which includes:
- Tax-free salary.
- Life insurance coverage.
- Medical insurance.
- Annual leave balance.
- Company gratuity scheme.
- Discretionary bonus program.
- Annual flight contribution.
- Transportation & housing allowances.
- Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.
Worker Type
Employee
Job Type
Regular
The company seeks to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds, and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion, or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.
