Senior Procurement Manager

Location: Ipswich (Hybrid working with flexibility)

Project: Sizewell C – Civil Works Alliance

Reporting to: Procurement Lead

The Opportunity

This is a chance to join one of the UK's most significant infrastructure programmes – Sizewell C – a once-in-a-generation development set to provide clean energy to over 6 million homes for the next 60 years.

Working within the Civil Works Alliance (a partnership between Balfour Beatty, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O'Rourke), you will play a key leadership role within a high-performing delivery organisation on a complex, high-value programme.

This role offers the opportunity to lead procurement strategy, influence commercial outcomes at programme level, and contribute to the successful delivery of a nationally significant project.

The role is aligned to the Ipswich project office, with hybrid working in place and flexibility for candidates based across the UK. Travel and mobility support is provided where required.

The Role

As Senior Procurement Manager, you will lead the development and delivery of procurement and supply chain strategy across the programme, ensuring best value, risk mitigation, and strong commercial performance.

You will:

• Lead the implementation of procurement and contracting strategy across the programme
• Deliver supply chain commitments in line with project and alliance objectives
• Lead complex, high-value negotiations to drive commercial outcomes
• Identify and mitigate market risks, driving efficiencies across the supply chain
• Develop strategic and tactical plans to ensure capability meets programme demand
• Oversee supply chain performance, ensuring operational and financial targets are met
• Support tendering, market analysis, supplier selection, and forecasting activities
• Build, lead and develop high-performing procurement teams
• Drive supplier engagement, including SME and local supply chain initiatives
• Ensure compliance with governance, legislation and nuclear standards

What We're Looking For?

• Proven experience in a senior procurement role within construction or major infrastructure
• Strong track record of delivering procurement strategy on complex programmes
• Experience leading teams and managing supply chain performance
• Strong commercial, negotiation and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to influence at senior level within a project or programme environment
• Confident operating in a fast-paced, delivery-focused environment, with the ability to influence outcomes at programme level

Desirable:

• MCIPS or equivalent
• Experience within regulated or highly controlled environments (e.g. nuclear)

About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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