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004853

Location:

United Kingdom, England, Basildon

Salary Range:

Competitive

Closing Date:

This vacancy may close at any time, if this role is of interest to you we recommend you apply as soon as possible.

The Opportunity

At Leonardo, we are recruiting for a Sub Contract Manager to join our Procurement team in Basildon. Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Headquartered in Italy, Leonardo has over 45,000 employees, of which 7,000 are based in the UK.

The main purpose of this role within the Procurement organisation is to provide Subcontract Management support to Leonardo Mission Systems Line of Business. It will involve all aspects to Subcontract Management from assessing the suppliers through Subcontract award to delivery and acceptance of the supplies and closure of the Subcontracts.

The role will be responsible for ensuring the suppliers meet the terms and conditions of their Subcontracts and managing change contract and potential conflicts therein.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

• Flexible working: We offer our employees the time and flexibility they need to enjoy a balanced life through flexible hours and part time options
• Custom working: The role may be a mixture of home based and onsite
• Flexible benefits: Our company-funded approach to flexible benefits allows employees to make choices appropriate for them. Each employee has access to a wide choice of lifestyle, health and wellbeing options best suited to their individual lifestyle goals.
• Network groups : To demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion we have network groups for
• Carers (employees who care for someone who is either older, disabled or seriously ill)
• -Enable (supporting people with disabilities)
• -Equalise (development of a gender balanced workforce)
• -Pride (promoting equality for all LGBTQ+ individuals)
• -We also work in partnership with AFBE (Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers).
• Training : Free access to Coursera which provides more than 4,000 online courses
• Continuous Learning : You will be supported in your ongoing professional development though training and mentoring
• Investors in People : We are proud recipients of the Investors in People Gold Award
• Employee Assistance Programme : Providing free and confidential mental health support
• Annual leave: We offer 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays and 12 flexi days

To find out about all of our Company benefits please visit:

https://uk.leonardocompany.com/en/peoplecareers/life-at-leonardo/company-benefits

What you will do

Key Responsibility Areas:

• To provide procurement governance and leadership within the Bid/Project Management business areas.
• Provide senior Procurement leadership and management to business area IPTs for effective Life Cycle Management (Tender Vet, Phase Reviews, CSR’s etc) and to achieve delivery and margin for all associated projects.
• The application of Procurement and Subcontract best practice expertise and process.
• Selection and development of strategic suppliers/partners. Ownership and responsibility for supplier performance, relationships and the ‘material’ budget.
• Preparing, negotiating and implementing any partnership, subcontract, teaming or non disclosure agreements ensuring that the Company is always fully protected commercially. Manage export applications/approvals, ITAR, TAA procedures and processes.
• Manage a complex supply chain and support the Scope of Work creation to ensure that all Suppliers have an understood baseline and work package.
• Project Manage new and existing Supply Chains ensuring that required outputs and schedules are completely understood throughout the programme.
• Manage the supply cash flow programme in line with the customer payments and negate any slippages where these may not be fully aligned.
• Be the focal point for monthly reporting, milestone monitoring and any remedial actions required with full ownership of the Project Supply Chain.
• Assess need for a Sub-Contract and determine potential suppliers, NDA’s to be raised and RFI to be issued, visits to be held to review their capability to deliver.
• Challenge assumptions of project bid teams and ensure necessary procurement fields are populated with accurate data, eg: suppliers conformance to project requirement, lead times, exchange rate, quotation validity, export restrictions.
• Develop and Approve the RFQ pack for down selected suppliers to include:
  -Statement Of Work.
  -Technical Requirements Specification.
  - Subcontract terms including customer flow down requirements.
• Assess Tender Responses and undertake Source Selection from RFQ
• Manage the Subcontract Negotiations to be held with the preferred supplier to achieve a Subcontract that meets the needs of the Project.
• Awarded the agreed Subcontract to the preferred supplier against clear achievable and measurable delivery objectives.
• Develop the Procurement Plan and support the Project Risk Management Plan.
• Approve milestone claims from the supplier when the milestones have been met.
• Maintain the Subcontract through the life of the project closing it when all milestone and deliveries have been received.
• Mediation of supply chain conflicts against contractual objectives.
• Drive supply chain performance to achieve on time delivery objectives and ensure SAP accurately reflects latest position.

You must be eligible for full security clearance. For more information and guidance please visit :
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels

What we are looking for

• Procurement professional with extensive experience at an appropriate level in the Defence industry.
• Minimum of two ‘A’ Levels or equivalent.
• CIPS, Management, Engineering and or Project Management qualifications are desirable.
• Management of Contract and major subcontractors for long term, high value systems integration programmes.
• Understanding of Terms and Conditions.
• Experienced in defence contracting with knowledge of MOD DEFCONS/FARS & DFARS and associated flowdowns.
• Creation and implementation of commercial documents.
• Risk management.
• Supplier assessment/Due Diligence.
• TAA/ITAR export controls.
• Project Management experience.
• Experience of Offset programmes would be desirable.
• Supply chain management skills.
• Capable of working as part of the management team within the relevant Line of Business.
• Responsive with a can do attitude. Prepared to make and stay with difficult decisions.
• Good leadership and team working skills.
• Good communication skills – written, oral and presentations.

We are relentless about inclusion. We understand an inclusive environment is one that welcomes everyone as they are.  We see diversity as a strength. We still have some way to go to achieving diverse teams across our whole business. We would like you to be part of our journey to creating that better balance and welcome applications from all individuals from all walks of life as we build a stronger company together.