Sourcing Manager

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Job Title: Sourcing Manager

Department: Procurement

Location: Edinburgh

Reports to: Head of Procurement

Employment Type: Employee

Company Profile

Red Rock Power Limited is an investor, owner, operator and developer of renewable energy projects. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, our growing team are passionate about generating clean energy and supporting the UK and Europe’s net zero ambitions.

Our current portfolio includes five part or fully owned wind farm projects, each at different lifecycle stages. Our operational wind farms – Afton (100% equity), Beatrice (25%) and Överturingen (50%) – have an installed capacity of 320 MW (RRPL proportion), while our development projects – Benbrack onshore wind farm in the South West of Scotland (100%) and Inch Cape offshore wind farm off the East Coast (50%) – will deliver an additional 570 MW.

We are committed to long term investment in the Scottish and UK market, onshore and offshore wind sectors in particular, and have strong growth ambitions to expand into the wider European market and other sustainable energy technologies. We are actively pursuing acquisition and development opportunities, including the offshore wind leasing rounds. Our Edinburgh headquarters puts us at the heart of the UK industry, while our team’s expertise and experience working on some of the world’s largest energy infrastructure projects allows us a unique opportunity to consider a variety of different opportunities and we welcome candidates to join us on this journey.

Red Rock Power was established in 2016 when SDIC Power, a global power generation company headquartered in Beijing, China acquired Repsol’s UK wind portfolio. For more information on Red Rock Power and what it’s like to work with us, visit https://www.redrockpower.co.uk/

Job Purpose

The Sourcing Manager is a part of the Red Rock Power Limited Procurement team and allocated to various projects or teams to provide procurement support to the Project / team. The Sourcing Manager will take responsibility for the tendering and contractual management for assigned contracts / package.

The Sourcing Manager is responsible for collecting market intelligence and create an overview of the market situation for the different areas. The market information will be a wide range of information going from a cost break down of a product to the expected technology development in an area in the coming years.

The Sourcing Manager will use the market intelligence to support both Asset Management and the M&A team in due diligence processes and benchmark analysis. The market intelligence will also be an important part of all preparation before a negotiation for as contract.

Job Description

Tendering and contract award process

• Own and run the full tendering process in cooperation with Package Manager and Engineering for own package area.

• Be responsible for the commercial part of tenders including conditions of contract;

• Be responsible for running prequalification.

• Be responsible for the commercial aspects of the tendering process;

• Engage with Package Managers and Engineering team members to ensure that tender and contract terms match scope and deliverable requirements;

• Assessment and benchmarking of tender offers;

• Detailed and robust negotiation of pricing with bidders;

• Be the lead of the negation team at negotiation with bidders.

• Engage with Legal when needed on tendering and contract issues.

Be responsible for the commercial evaluation of the bids in a tender and work with Package Managers and Engineering to produce contract award recommendations and present to senior management for approval.

• Keep the costing form system updated with the most recent data, for the different kind of renewable energy projects

• Support the project procurement with should cost analysis, cost break downs and general support for the tenders

• Support Asset Management with cost analysis and benchmark for existing contracts

• Support to M&A Team with due diligence and benchmark analysis

Skills

• Tendering and contract law

• Negotiation

• Benchmark analysis

• Team player

• Strategic mindset is desirable but not essential

Knowledge and Experience Required

• Procurement experience from large construction projects

• Supplier Relation Management

• Stakeholder management

• TCO driven procurement

Qualifications

• A master or Bachelor Degree from a Business School or University is desirable but not essential

• CIPS certification is desirable but not essential

Core Competencies

• Effective Communication

• Trust & Integrity

• Team Orientated

• Decisive

• Strategic Vision

• Adaptable

• Commercial/Business Awareness

What we offer

• An exciting opportunity and the chance to get involved with interesting projects

• Competitive benefits package including life assurance, private medical care and 10% non-contributory pension

• The chance to work amongst a friendly, dedicated and sociable team

• Social, health and wellbeing initiatives