Procurement Apprentice

Job description

ENGIE is a leading energy and services company focused on three key activities: production and supply of energy, services and regeneration. Our 17,000 employees combine these capabilities for the benefit of individuals, businesses and communities throughout the UK & Ireland.

We enable customers to embrace a lower carbon, more efficient and increasingly digital world. Our customers benefit from our energy efficient and smart building solutions, the provision of effective and innovative services, the transformation of neighbourhoods through regeneration projects, and the supply of reliable, flexible and renewable energy.

ENGIE improves lives through better living and working environments. We help to balance performance with responsibility, enabling progress in a harmonious way.

Globally, the ENGIE Group employs 160,000 people worldwide and achieved revenues of €60.6 billion in 2018.

ENGIE are recruiting for a Procurement Apprentice to be based in Sheffield or London. This is a 24 months Aprenticeship full-time role working 37.5 hours per week. On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package.

General Overview:

The role of the Procurement Apprentice is to develop internal and external business relationships, gather and analyse complex, data, including financial information, and present findings in an appropriate format to team managers to support negotiation, risk management, and decision making processes.

Key Responsibilities:

·  Running Tenders via the Coupa system (creating tender documents and pricing structures while keeping constant communication to key stakeholders)
·  Analysis of tenders in line with Engie procurement policy
·  Negotiation of prices for goods and services within Energy Solutions
·  Reporting Savings, Spend and Progress of tenders to key stakeholders
·  Organise and run meetings with a cross-functional team
·  Administration

Key Development and Learning Opportunities Include:

·  Running a complete tender process in line with a corporate procurement policy
·  Time Management
·  Commercial Understanding
·  Understanding and Working under a Procurement Policy
·  Interaction with key stakeholders within the business (Project Managers, Head of Projects, Head of Business Units, Estimation)
·  Working to strict deadlines
·  Involvement in key packages that are critical to the success of  projects
·  Working towards CIPS level 4

Required Qualifications, Skills or Experience:

·  Strong written and verbal communication skills
·  High level of IT skills including Microsoft Excel
·  Financial and Commercial Skills
·  Time Management Skills
·  Evidence of successful work independently and as part of a team 

For more information about ENGIE, please visit:

http://www.engie.com/en/candidates-area/

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. There is no re-location package with this job role. ENGIE do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

The ENGIE Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to ENGIE Managers.

Additional Information
·  Posting Date: Jan 24, 2020