Senior Procurement Officer

Responsibilities:
• Provides procurement support to specific bids in line with the SMS (Serco Management System) and Serco’s Bid Methodology. Provides the key interface between a specific Bid Team and the relevant Category team within Global Procurement.
• Responsible within a bid team for interpreting and helping facilitate the thinking around client requirements, assisting estimators with estimating the volumes and benchmarking the price of outsource service lines; assisting solutions developers in clarifying client requirements into specifications for suppliers; obtaining & negotiating suppliers’ commercial proposals whilst managing contractual risks; and delivering to client timescales.
• Where appropriate, and with legal support, manages the offsetting of customer-imposed risks by flowing-down terms to suppliers through the development of appropriate contractual agreements.
• Ensures bid alignment with Serco’s evolving procurement category strategies.