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Procurement Subcontract Manager

Job details
Posting date: 11 June 2025
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 11 July 2025
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB5 8RX
Company: Marshall of Cambridge Holdings Ltd
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: JR104584_1749652586

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Summary

Why join Marshall in this role?

This role will give you the chance to play a key part in ground-breaking and high-profile defence projects. You'll be part of an industry-leading team, working with Marshall and other major defence stakeholders and Primes.

Purpose of the position

A P&SC team member who is part of a cross functional project team, alongside other project roles accountable for managing and reporting all supplier and subcontractor delivery performance (cost, quality and delivery). A key aspect of this position will be to ensure that material cost is managed to the budget baseline and supplier/subcontractor compliance is managed to ensure delivery of contractual deliverables and identifying and mitigating all risks that may affect this.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage the relationship with all key suppliers across the LVM project

  • Ensure clear alignment between Marshall and all Suppliers on all key contractual deliverables and documentation as Terms and Conditions, Statement of Work and Schedule of requirements.

  • Facilitate regular project reviews with all appropriate suppliers invited all necessary functional leaders as required

  • Manage any non-compliances of suppliers to the contract seeking specialist support from the Bid Procurement Team or Category Team as required

  • Tracking and regularly review supply and supplier risks against the programme

  • Provide monthly subcontractor performance status reports to Head of Subcontract management project managers

  • Ensuring all suppliers execute their responsibilities under the contract

  • Validate and approve supplier payments in accordance with the contract

Tasks:

  • Develop and sustain strong relationships with all key project, business and functional stakeholders

  • Provide weekly 4-Box reports detailing Successes Opportunities Failures and Threats (SOFT) to project managers and Head of Subcontract Management

  • Support BL CSR reviews representing the function and suppliers

Behavioural Competencies:

  • Strong Communication Skills

  • Awareness of Project Management

  • Strong Negotiator

  • Strong Commercial acumen

  • Ability to multi-task

Technical Competencies:

  • At least 5 years of experience in project and/or subcontractor management

  • Awareness of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software ideally IFS

Certification:

  • APM certified - an advantage

  • CIPS - not essential

Experience:

  • Successful track record of managing a variety of suppliers / contracts

  • Cross functional working

  • International supplier management

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary, 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)

  • Pension contributions up to 9%, healthcare cash plan for you and your children, extensive flexible benefit program.

About Marshall

Marshall is an independent, family-owned UK company with a diverse portfolio of businesses and a shared commitment to keeping our customers moving forward.

Whether that is supporting global armed forces to deliver mission-critical activities, keeping the UK distribution industry on the road, creating new sustainable communities where people can live and thrive, or developing the next generations of industry talent - we are incredibly proud to have been building extraordinary futures since 1909.

Marshall Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Marshall Group is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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