Procurement Specialist

As a Procurement Specialist at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

In this role you will:

• Assist in the procurement and contract administration of architects, engineers, general contactors and equipment vendors
• Conduct prequalification and shortlisting of suppliers through bid analysis and expert negotiation of pricing, making award recommendations as required
• Manage contract development, finalisation, and administration with rigorous attention to detail
• Create and manage all requests for proposals (RFPs), POs, change orders and invoicing
• Ensure all documentation is well organised and accessible

• Assist with the onboarding of on-site supplier teams and foster a positive supplier relationship through expert liaison with site and vendor teams
• Benchmark the latest industry trends and practices to keep a fresh view on the competitive landscape
• Create cost estimates and planning schedules for long lead equipment

• Create weekly reports and dashboards to monitor overall progress and identify any risk in the supply chain

• Conduct production planning and supplier capacity modelling as required
• Establish inventory management solutions and track equipment allocation and deliveries
• Lead key meetings to monitor progress and collaborate on solving problems

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have grown your experience over 3 years in a procurement and supply chain management role within a data centre or construction environment
• Have a Bachelor’s degree in a procurement or supply chain management related discipline
• Have previous experience with data centre OFCI equipment and RFPs
• Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing
• Have excellent IT skills with a strong focus on data processing, management and analytics
• Are enthusiastic about being part of a global team, and able to flex your hours to engage across regions and time zones
• Adapt to new processes with agility and enthusiasm
• Love a dynamic environment with the opportunity to manage your own priorities and deadlines
• Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun

About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!