• Job Description

  Req#: 26634

  Are you looking for a new and exciting opportunity in your next career? If so, we are looking for a Supply Chain Specialist to be based in our Gloucester office.

  The Opportunity

  In this role, you will provide Supply Chain support across EDF Energy Nuclear Operations for projects and markets following the companies ‘Acquire Goods and Services Process’. This will include upstream procurement activity, drafting procurement strategies, market category management and downstream Contract Management as required.

  Pay, Benefits and Culture
  
  We can offer a competitive salary from £40,069 - £60,826 with terms and conditions covered by the EDF Nuclear Operations Company Agreement. You’ll be appointed based on the parameters outlined in the Company Agreement as well as your existing salary, competence, experience and qualifications.

  
  At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

  
  We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

  
  What you’ll be doing

  As our next Supply Chain Specialist, your roles and responsibilities include:

  • To undertake procurement activity in accordance with the Company’s Acquire Goods and Services Process and the Company’s Supply Chain and Market Strategies.
  • Administering the upstream and downstream commercial aspects of a contract to the delegated level of authority (this includes supplier appraisal, tender preparation, tender assessment, negotiation, contract placement, variation and claim management and performance motioning).
  • Maintain appropriate level of external supplier contact to undertake responsibilities effectively and liaise with Supply Chain Management on matters of strategic importance.
  • Regular and pro-active liaison and support to internal customers.
  • Assisting the Senior Supply Chain Specialist in developing and delivering market strategies that will underpin category management and include commercial objectives, relationship management and material management.
  • Provide operationally focused responses to developments and issue.
  • Apply human performance tools to enhance operation safety performance.

  
  Who you are

  As a minimum, you will have a HNC or equivalent in a relevant subject and preferably hold or be working towards MCIPS.

  We’re looking for you to demonstrate previous experience of working within a supply chain environment within a relevant industry. Along with this, knowledge of relevant legislation governing supply chain activities is also required. Holding awareness of best practice, and evidence of influencing change and being a real team player is imperative for this role.

  
  Applications for this role close on 18th December 2023.

  Join us. Together, we’ll help Britain achieve net zero.

• About the company

  EDF Energy is a British integrated energy company, wholly owned by the French state owned EDF, with operations spanning electricity generation and the sale of natural gas and electricity to homes and businesses throughout the United Kingdom.

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