Job Description
Location: Birmingham or London – occasional travel to different sites required
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Job Overview
The Buyer will be report into the Category Manager. You will be responsible for supporting in business unit & category strategy development, execution, and sourcing activity, ensuring supply chain solutions are fit for purpose, aligned to business needs, and represent lowest total cost, optimal service, and highest quality with relevant impactful supply base innovation.
As the Buyer, you will implement and maintain supplier management programs across all key areas of spend. You will support project across the Business Services and Soft Services team.
Main Duties
You will support and lead on strategic procurement activities and support on complex high value sourcing activities and negotiations, identifying new and more competitive sources of supply. The Buyer will negotiate and influence suppliers to achieve best market value and have the ability to identify cost reduction opportunities within the business.
Additional requirements:
1. Manage and support a wide range of internal stakeholders
2. Supporting the development and delivery of annual targets and goals across cost, quality, reliability, and delivery
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