This role is Inside IR35.
Clearance: SC
Contract Length: 15-months from start date
Location: Aldermaston (moving to a different Reading location in January) – hybrid. Good chunk of time at home. Site attendance when required – expectation 2 days/week onsite. Likely one day/week set.
Minimum Requirement
* Team leadership experience/supervisor level
* Task management (Not direct line management)
* Experienced user of electronic purchasing systems e.g. Jaggaer Source to Contract or similar system working knowledge.
* Strong stakeholder management skills at all levels
* Experience within a Buying role in a similar organisation or industry.
* S2C Experience
* Risk management/Improvement
* Public procurement
* Jaggaer – would be highly desirable
* Any experience IN user testing would be helpful/beneficial
* Public sector high preference, public procurement
* Highly regulated industry
* Wouldn’t discount private sector but public is more desirable
* CIPS/MCIPS/Working towards – not essential
Experience
* Experience in working in a highly regulated environment.
* Experience of using online sourcing software (i.e. JAGGAER, Oracle, Ariba or similar) will be required.
* High level of experience of conducting source to contract activities for standard, complex, strategic and exception Procurements, including commercial experience in obtaining and analysing quotations. Management of Tender communications and Documents.
* Good communication skills, be comfortable dealing with stakeholders and have an enthusiastic can-do attitude.
* Stakeholder management - dealing tactfully and constructively with challenging people and situations using soft skills to confidently present the SEMT process & performance to all levels of the Business.
* Track record in working in a fast-paced customer focussed department.
* Building working relationships both internally and externally.
* Working closely as a team member, being an effective team collaborator.
* Delivering objectives on time, in full.
* Planning and prioritising workload.
* Working in a procurement or customer services function.
* Experience within a Buying role in a similar organisation or industry.
Skills
* Intermediate skill level in MS Office – Excel and Word.
* Experienced user of electronic purchasing systems e.g. Jaggaer Source to Contract or similar system working knowledge.
* Accuracy in data entry and attention to detail.
* Confident developing working relationships both internally and externally.
* Data Analysis – working with multiple spreadsheets / data points.
* Clear and confident communicator, able to explain complex problems.
* Able to develop constructive relationships both internally and externally.
* Proactive approach to problem solving, tackles issues before they become problems and facilitation skills when needed enabling a ‘return to green’ approach in a timely manner.
* Actively leading and encouraging others on continuous improvement and marginal gains delivery
* Aptitude for working in a process led environment.
* Able to adapt method of communicating to a range of stakeholders.
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