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 identify supplier and procurement risk through all stages of a supplier engagement
7. Support regular reviews of existing contracts with suppliers to ensure continued competitiveness and value for money is being achieved and to exploit price review clauses to their fullest extent.
What you’ll bring :
8. Experience of working in a Procurement or Category Management role.
9. Experience of dealing with supplier negotiations on pricing and contractual terms in order to deliver savings, reduce risk and deliver commercial value
10. Good working knowledge of contract terms,contracting processes and drafting.
11. Good working knowledge of procurement process and practices, including, scoping, tendering, evaluation, selection and contracting.
12. Able to demonstrate a good level of commercial awareness
13. Experience of developing positive stakeholder relationships to promote and ensure adherence to procurement practices.
14. A team player who is experienced working in a challenging and demanding environment
It would be great if you had:
15. High level of numeracy and literacy
16. MCIPS Diploma or equivalent / willingness to study for MCIPS Diploma desirable
17. Effective communicator
18. Self-disciplined and able to deliver whilst working flexibly
19. Project Management or Change skills desirable.
If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements.