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HR Talent Acquisition Specialist EMEA at CDS, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
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CDS, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), providing field service capabilities to Hewlett Packard Enterprise customers as well delivering the difference in business oriented services, such as development, support and maintenance of applications, virtualisation, automation, cloud and infrastructure administration.
CDS is present in 11 European countries with more than 1,800 employees, and embraces all of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s values and commitments to employees and customers alike.
Role Overview
The CDS Procurement Team has a Procurement Specialist role available for UK&I and is looking for an individual who has experience of working in an Indirect Procurement role & a knowledge of procurement systems & processes. You will report directly to the Global Procurement Manager.
The tasks will include (but not limited to):
* Manage strategic supply sources and procurement/logistic activities, which include material and services procurement, inventory control, outsourcing, vendor & contract management (selection, setup, and distribution).
* Take a strategic and pro-active role in driving best purchasing practices to benefit the business and to reduce costs.
* Provide leadership for the procurement area, advice & support to the business.
* Contract negotiations (new contracts & existing contracts): Able to negotiate favourable terms, volume discounts and long-term contracts
* Comparison of vendor contracts to standard company framework templates identifying shortfalls and exceptions
* Ensuring all products and materials meet company standards.
* Ensuring that all supplier issues and escalations (such as payment problems, performance and delivery) are resolved in a timely manner so as not to impact the business.
* Regular vendor evaluation based on standard indicators.
* Source best value suppliers of goods and services as required.
* Maintain strong relationship with key vendors
* Supplier setup and changes.
* Contract database: maintain our internal database for all vendor & contracts.
* Monitor all personal data privacy related matters within the vendor contracts.
* Compliance with & enforcement of company & procurement policies, controls / governance.
* Attend actively to the bi-weekly Global Procurement meeting.
* Reporting on all Procurement initiatives, savings and spend to UK&I and central management.
* Building a yearly procurement plan to set budget and manage spend.
* Manage the mobile phone process: orders, replacements, etc.
* Manage the car fleet operations.
Documentation and Organization:
* Responsible for the record retention
* Ensure full compliance and yearly update of policies, procedures, documents
* BCP (Business Continuity Plan) check/update on critical areas and ensure back up checks are done.
Required skills and attributes
* At least five years experienced in a Procurement role (preferably Indirect Procurement)
* Experience of Procurement techniques, processes, and systems.
* Knowledge and experience of contracts, terms and conditions & statements of work.
* Knowledge of data protection principles.
* Advanced proficiency in Microsoft: Excel, Word etc.
* Good analytic skills.
* Ability to communicate with suppliers & stakeholders at all levels.
* Confident in working in an international environment.
* Flexible approach to work to be able to cover all aspects of the procurement role in a small purchasing team.
* Adaptable, reliable, enthusiastic, keen to learn, good attention to detail.
* Able to work under pressure, assertive, confident & approachable.
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