Supply Chain Specialist / Manager (LLE procurement, data centres)

Overview

As a Supply Chain Specialist / Manager 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. 

The Opportunity

In this role you will: 

• Actively track manufacturing and delivery timelines for long lead equipment (LLE) and coordinate milestones with general contractors and vendors.
• Prepare and present change order slides, reviewing vendor invoices, and ensuring timely payments.
• 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
• Assist with the onboarding of on-site supplier teams and foster a positive supplier relationship through expert liaison with site and vendor teams
• Be a key contact for the client’s procurement team and act as a strategic partner in all areas of supply chain and procurement
• Benchmark the latest industry trends and practices to keep a fresh view on the competitive landscape
• Oversee post-contract management, including providing contract administration advice to the client, claims tracking, and producing and processing contract change orders
• Coordinate of storage, on site deliveries, installation and commissioning with the General Contractor’s works
• Mitigate potential Extension of Time claims from the contractor and proactively recommend solutions to resolve issues
• Provide regular updates to client stakeholders
• Manager and reporting against budgets & timelines

We would love to hear from you if you: 

• Have grown your experience in supply chain / procurement role within a data centre or complex construction environment, focused on long lead (LLE) owner supplied equipment
• Have previous experience with OSE equipment RFPs
• Have experience across the full procurement lifecycle, covering both pre-award and post-award phases.
• Are skilled in handling escalations and resolving issues quickly under pressure.
• Have strong proficiency in Excel and documentation for post-award administration tasks
• Are comfortable working in ambiguity and adapting to dynamic challenges
• Possess excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills for frequent interaction across teams
• Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing 

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

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!