Developing sourcing strategies across several key construction professional services categories, such as Architect / Engineer, Commissioning Agents, Project Management, Cost Management, Environmental Consultants, etc. Establish and continuously improve standard templates for data collection and breakdowns, and work with stakeholders to improve data quality and governance standards. Establish and maintain regional benchmarking tools to support cost, performance, and supplier comparisons. Provide insights and recommendations based on benchmarking outcomes. Support the consolidation of regional sourcing and spend data Support should-cost modelling and comparative analysis Enable better visibility and reporting through structured, well-maintained datasets Establishment of appropriate sourcing strategies alongside relevant internal stakeholders to drive long term goals of Continuity of Supply, Cost, Quality, Safety, Diversity & Inclusion and Sustainability. Manage the sourcing, assessment, and onboarding of potential new suppliers. Develop and maintain category management and allocation plans for the planned portfolio of construction projects across the region. Manage the drafting, negotiation, and execution of contracts. Manages supplier scorecard process, leads strategic business reviews, educates stakeholders on policy compliance, analyses root causes of issues, and influences change internally and/or externally to addresses issues. Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and manages the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues. Identifies opportunities to adapt policy as needed to mitigate risk and better enable suppliers to meet business requirements. Ensures consistency, timeliness, quality, and accuracy of deliverables, and ensures Procurement stakeholders are aware of Service Level Agreement (SLA) and/or defined milestones and deliverables terms. Communicates delay to Procurement stakeholders, and independently proposes and executes contingency measures. Processes or supports stakeholder procurement requests for complex purchasing categories via engagement and/or leveraging workflow process or technology, where applicable in support of product and service requirements. Manages the resolution of escalated pricing issues raised by other sourcing personnel. Executes contracts and complies with established control processes to ensure delivery and execution on contracts in alignment with business requirements. Collaborates cross-functionally to define and manage supplier scorecard criteria (e.g., key performance indicators [KPIs], Service Level Agreements [SLAs]), coordinates supplier performance reviews, and drives corrective actions. Develops pricing and negotiation strategies for one or more complex purchasing categories, ensures that strategies clearly articulate the trade-offs, roles, and responsibilities across parties, and gains senior executive support for strategies both internally and externally. Collaborates with suppliers and leads on-boarding, processes. A minimum of a bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Software Design, Software Engineering, OR a related field, OR equivalent alternative education, skills, AND/OR practical experience is required. Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Supply Chain, Business, Finance or related field AND 5+ years post graduate experience in construction supply chain and/or construction procurement specifically with large complex capital projects or equivalent experience. Strong commercial understanding and experience of driving and developing key contractual components of categories (Architect / Engineer, Commissioning, Project Management, Cost Management and other construction services suppliers). Knowledge of construction projects and teams is a must. Datacenter industry preferable and / or mission critical experience managing a variety of project delivery methods - ability to collaborate with a project team in defining risk and developing the appropriate contracting and compensation approaches. Demonstrate continuous improvement and stay curious as to how to implement improvement and efficiencies into workflow. Strong data management skillset and ability to set up new templates and tools to benefit wider team with data backed decisions. Take ownership and accountability for scope and closing out deliverables in required timelines. Technical ability to review contracts, ability to set up sourcing plans and negotiation strategies to execute them. High integrity - must be ethical and strong value based individual focused on fairness and maintaining confidentiality. Strong verbal and written communication skills for executive communication; ability to articulate points of view with executive management and stakeholders. Ability to implement new processes and get buy in from a cross functional team. Understand the importance of relationships inside the company and with our supply chain partners.
