Job DescriptionDiscover Tradebe Tradebe is a group of industrial businesses with the commitment of creating a more sustainable planet and making significant contributions to human wellbeing. In the UK, we are leaders focused on recycling, energy recovery and circular economy, managing all different environmental liabilities in a sustainable way.

What will you do? Make an impact!

As Procurement & Commercial Support Manager, you'll support site operations by improving supplier governance, commercial control, and cost transparency across operational spend, maintenance activity, and shutdown-related work. Working closely with site leadership, Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and SHEQ, you'll help ensure supplier decisions are commercially sound, risk-aware, and well documented, while keeping processes practical for a busy operational environment.

What you'll be doing

- Leading site-level supplier governance, reviewing performance, capability, compliance, risk, and overall value.
- Supporting supplier negotiations, framework agreements, benchmarking, and alternative sourcing activity.
- Reviewing and challenging scopes, quotations, rate structures, labour hours, materials charges, variations, and invoices.
- Providing procurement and commercial support for shutdowns, major maintenance activity, and high-value operational work.
- Introducing practical procurement processes, including approval routes, quote evaluations, change records, and supplier performance measures.
- Driving continuous improvement while ensuring procurement supports operations rather than slowing them down.

Do you have what it takes?





- Experience in procurement, commercial, contract, or supplier management within an industrial, operational, engineering, or maintenance environment.
- Understanding of labour-based contracts, cost-plus pricing, materials procurement, and maintenance or engineering operations.
- Experience negotiating with suppliers and managing commercial agreements.
- Confidence reviewing and challenging costs, invoices, scopes, commercial terms, and supporting documentation.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to build trust and challenge appropriately across site teams, contractors, and stakeholders.
- Able to work effectively in quick-paced operational environments.

Desirable skills

- Experience supporting plant shutdowns, major maintenance activity, or high-value operational projects.
- Engineering, technical, quantity surveying, or commercial operations background.
- Knowledge of SAP or similar ERP systems.
- Experience in regulated, high-risk, industrial, environmental, or waste management environments.

We expect from you to Be accountable, Drive results, Embrace Change, and high levels of Collaboration!

What's in for you?

- Competitive salary
- Bonus
- 6% contributory pension
- A range of benefits, including access to our benefits platform for discounts and cashback on shopping purchases, gyms and leisure activities, cycle to work scheme, and a dedicated wellbeing centre

Tradebe is committed to guaranteeing selection processes based on merit and skills free of any bias based on , , , , or . We believe in equal opportunities, and we work for it

#J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Procurement & Commercial Support Manager in Northam
🏢 Energy Jobline ZR
📍 Northam