Job Description
As a Pricing Support Analyst you'll be responsible for tendering, negotiating, validating, and accepting fixed price supply agreements for Sustainable Energy First clients. You'll build and maintain supplier relationships to manage query resolution and escalations whilst coordinating activity between clients and suppliers to facilitate the smooth transfer of supply contracts and pro-actively manage any late registration reimbursements
In this role you will be:
* Responsible for tendering, negotiating, validating, and accepting supply agreements for Sustainable Energy First clients, including offer assessment, entry, negotiation, and feedback received on tenders
* Negotiate with suppliers to achieve the best price for clients. Tracking the market to support negotiation and timing
* Engagement with Procurement specialists and account managers
* Manage offer entry, assessment/evaluation, and validation prior to client acceptance
* Ensure offer/tender feedback is received from supplier and client is kept updated
* Run prompt acceptance process in line with Sustainable Energy First processes and requirements
* Build and maintain supplier relationships and have a key understanding of products and industry developments to proactively resolve client/supplier contract queries
* Co-ordinate activity between clients and suppliers to facilitate registration and transfer of supply contracts in line with Sustainable Energy First processes and requirements
* Ensure that the process for automatically obtaining live dates from suppliers works well and/or resolve any issues. This will involve prompt dialogue with the relevant suppliers
* Pro-actively manage late registration reimbursements ensuring prompt and satisfactory completion and payment of claim to clients
* Investigate issues relating to the transfer of supply contracts. Liaising with clients and suppliers’ resolving to closure - recording activity through Fusion
* Regularly communicate with suppliers, peers, and clients to resolve queries, problem solving any escalated issues and highlighting complex queries to the key stakeholders
* Ensure accurate data added to Fusion, where appropriate, in line with Sustainable Energy First processes and requirements
* Provide regular updates to Procurement Management Team including MI reporting
Requirements
* Excellent communication skills, verbal and written to articulate to both clients and suppliers
* Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
* Intermediate user of Excel
* Intermediate user of Fusion would be desirable but not essential
* Good knowledge and /or experience of the energy industry, particularity energy supply would be desirable but not essential
* Ability to tender, negotiate and accept supply agreements
* Ability to resolve client/supplier queries proactively and promptly
* Good analytical skills and numerical aptitude
* Good organisational and timekeeping skills
* Team oriented, with a demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong working relationships across internal and external stakeholders e.g., with energy suppliers and clients
* Effective planning skill with the ability to set and work to deadlines
* Accurate with ability to pay close attention to detail
* Ability to take ownership of the completion of tasks
Other information
Salary: Up to £26,000 per annum
Holidays: 25 days + bank holidays + your birthday off
Hybrid and Flexible working - you must be able to commute to our Lytham office 2 days p/week
Gym contribution
Long service awards
Private Medical Insurance
Enhanced paternity/non-pregnant colleague and maternity/pregnant colleague leave
Simply Health
Challenging work and development