You’re following your purpose- and there’s still more to come. Keep developing your skills and explore all that you can do across our global company. As part of Jacobs’ global procurement team, you’ll join a group of strategically focused professionals, providing solutions and driving enhancements for our internal customers and building. Working together, we’ll help you grow and pursue what fulfills you so that we can make impacts on the future - big and small, global and local.
Reporting to the Regional Procurement Manager, the Procurement Professional will provide expertise to support the assigned work portfolio of project services, which includes purchasing and subcontracting responsibilities to meet project schedules and expectations.
In this role, you’ll perform all duties for assigned subcontracts, including:
• Prequalification of bidders, solicitation of proposals, proposal evaluations, source selection recommendations
• Leading negotiation of subcontract terms and pricing issues, conformance and finalizing of agreements, and subcontract issuance and implementation.
• Ensuring applicable Client contract commercial terms are identified, addressed, and included in assigned subcontracts
• Obtaining necessary reviews and approvals of bidder exceptions, bid evaluations, source selection recommendations, subcontracts, and change orders prior to execution.
• Ensuring budget compliance issues are addressed
• Performing subcontract post-award administration duties, including change order management, contractual compliance, invoice verification, insurance compliance, performance evaluation, closeout of agreements, and records retention.
You’re following your purpose- and there’s still more to come. Keep developing your skills and explore all that you can do across our global company. As part of Jacobs’ Corporate Procurement team, you’ll join a group of strategic-focused professionals whose goal is to ensure the company gets the most value out of every dollar spent. As Category Manager for HR Services and Contingent Labor you will partner with HR leadership to lead the development, implementation and ongoing management of category strategies at global and regional levels. Above and beyond Strategic Sourcing activities, you’ll master the knowledge of external variables (supply markets, cost drivers, commodity trending) and the internal landscape (requirements, organizational structure, priorities). Your collaborative relationships within Procurement, with Stakeholders, and with Suppliers will successfully develop and execute against Category strategies that utilize various value levers to deliver improved cost, reduced risk and more efficient programs at Jacobs.
Utilizing your keen analysis expertise, creative sourcing approaches, and demand management, you’ll achieve cost savings, mitigate risk, and improve process efficiencies. You’ll lead the supplier selection process across multiple subsets of the category, with various scope and stakeholder groups. Your dedication to our culture of inclusion and diversity will allow you to foster positive relationships within your team, as well as with diverse, disadvantaged and small business suppliers. You’ll successfully lead negotiations with current and potential suppliers as part of the contract renewal or vendor selection process. You’ll use those innovative category councils and business reviews to support collaboration, knowledge sharing, opportunity identification, and overall relationship development. You’ll unleash innovation within the procurement space, looking at new ways to structure programs or categories, benefitting from changes in supply market, and modifying tools/processes to add value.
At Jacobs, we challenge what is currently accepted, so we can shape innovative and lasting solutions for tomorrow. If you’re interested in a rewarding career working with the industry’s best and most innovative professionals, then Jacobs is where you belong. We are looking for a driven and curious client-focused (job title) to grow with our team
• Minimum 8 years of Procurement experience
• Significant experience in managing procurement activities on major projects, including drafting and formulating contracts, RFx development, negotiations, administering major purchase orders, contracts or subcontracts, managing supplier performance post award
• Procurement experience specific to VMS, MSP and staffing agencies
• Experience in projects related to HR Services and Contingent Labor, including recruitment, training, and talent management - either as a Procurement professional or a practitioner in the function.
Ideally, you’ll also have:
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Law, Engineering, Supply Management or other applicable field.
• Certification from the Institute for Supply Management or National Contract Management Association (or other international equivalent)
