Contracts / Procurement Specialist (Data Centre Construction)

As a Contracts / 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: 

• 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
• 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
• 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 (GC) works
• Mitigate potential Extension of Time (EoT) claims from the GC and proactively recommending solution to resolve issues
• Manage vendor milestone payments and variations
• 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 a contracts and procurement role within a data centre or construction environment
• Have previous experience with OFCI 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.