Do you want to take the next step in your procurement career?The role reports into the Head of Procurement and forms an integral part of the overall Sopra Steria Procurement Team. The role will provide support to the Sector and Joint Venture Procurement Business Partner function.With the support of Procurement Management, the role will work alongside the Procurement Business Partner to support a client Sector in managing third party supplier requirements, including but not limited to, new supplier assessment and onboarding, contractual negotiations and drafting, risk mitigation and delivery of cost savings against targets.What you will be doing:
1. Working with the Procurement Business Partner, support development of the Sector/JV procurement strategy, working practices, and promote procurements capabilities.
2. Supporting the wider team to ensure Procurement is at the forefront and is leading activities for any new third party requirements.
3. Help drive selection of suppliers through comprehensive sourcing processes utilising eSourcing, tools, etc where appropriate.
4. Interrogate spend data to monitor suppliers and identify areas for re-negotiation, consolidation and savings identification
5. Working with the Procurement Business Partner, ensure that existing procurement controls, policies and processes are adhered to by the business and develop new controls where needed and appropriate.
6. Help ident...