About Constructor Group
Founded in 2019 by tech and education entrepreneur Dr. Serg Bell, Constructor Group is a global institution dedicated to revolutionizing education and driving innovation in Machine Intelligence, Quantum Technology, Intelligent Materials, Hybrid Reality, and Life Engineering. Our ecosystem includes Constructor Knowledge, offering education tools and services worldwide; Constructor, a software company delivering advanced tech solutions; and Constructor Capital, providing early-stage funding for science, technology, and digital transformation projects. Backed by a diverse network of academic partners, business leaders, and Nobel laureates, Constructor Group is redefining education and technology for the future.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Core procurement:
- Manage the full procurement cycle from requisition to purchase order to delivery and payment
- Source, evaluate, and onboard suppliers across all indirect categories
- Negotiate commercial terms, pricing, SLAs, and renewals, and lead contract negotiations to close
- Own vendor relationship management, including performance reviews, escalations, and risk monitoring
- Run competitive tenders and RFPs, build comparison models, and make sourcing recommendations
- Track and control spend against budget, identify savings, and report on procurement KPIs
- Maintain the contract repository, renewal calendar, and supplier master data
- Ensure compliance with internal policy, data protection requirements, and licensing terms
- Improve procurement processes, tooling, and approval workflows
Project leadership:
- Lead one-time and cross-functional procurement projects end to end
- Coordinate vendors, contractors, and internal teams to deliver on time and on budget
- Manage project risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communication
- Measure results against the business case and report outcomes
Qualifications and Experience:
- 3+ years of procurement or purchasing experience across multiple indirect categories
- Experience in international procurement, sourcing and managing suppliers across multiple countries and regions
- Higher education in economics, business, or a related field
- Solid working knowledge of the IT category, covering all types of hardware, software licensing models, SaaS subscriptions, cloud services, and colocation and server housing
- Experience leading or coordinating cross-functional projects
- Strong commercial and contract literacy, comfortable shaping terms alongside Legal
- Analytical skills for spend analysis, cost modelling, total cost of ownership, and ROI assessment
- Confident stakeholder management across technical and non-technical teams and all seniority levels
- Familiarity with ERP systems and strong spreadsheet skills
- Fluent English, written and verbal (additional languages are an advantage)
- Detail-oriented, organised, and able to run many parallel suppliers and projects at once
