We're supporting an innovative automotive client who are seeking a dynamic Senior Contracts & Procurement Specialist to support a broad portfolio of CAPEX, category management, logistics, MRO, and other key procurement activities.
- Role: Senior Contracts & Procurement Specialist
- Duration: 9 - 12 Months
- Rate: £400 - £500 p/day (Inside IR35)
- Location: Oxfordshire (2/3 days on-site)
In this role you will be involved heavily with pre‑contractual activity on a large project, while also providing flexible support across a range of procurement categories.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead pre‑contract activities for a large-scale, high‑value procurement workstream.
- Support supplier selection for system manufacturing.
- Draft and negotiate framework agreements and detailed supply orders (system assembly, aftermarket parts).
- Negotiate bespoke terms including warranty, delay damages, performance criteria, and commercial risk.
- Collaborate cross‑functionally with engineering, quality, legal, logistics and programme teams.
- Deliver end‑to‑end procurement processes for CAPEX projects (equipment, test assets, asset disposal etc.).
- Contribute to building a long‑term category management plan to simplify and structure procurement activities.
- Provide hands-on support across logistics, MRO and outsourcing categories as required.
- Full lifecycle responsibility: supplier identification, prequalification, tendering, evaluation, negotiation and award.
- Draft, review and execute contractual documents confidently.
This role requires someone who can operate autonomously, draft and negotiate complex contracts, and thrive within a fast‑changing environment with evolving programme priorities.
Key Experience:
- Strong background in automotive, major CAPEX projects, engineering or similar environments.
- Strong pre‑contract and contract drafting experience
- Proven negotiation skills across complex, high-value, multi-party agreements.
- Experience managing global suppliers
- Comfortable operating in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment with rapid decision cycles.
- Strong commercial, analytical and stakeholder management capability.
- Capable of supporting multiple categories simultaneously and flexing to evolving business needs.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an innovative environment and work on a major programme with a highly varied workload with exposure to multiple categories and strategic procurement challenges.
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