Senior Strategic Buyer – East Midlands
Chase & Holland have today been engaged by an exceptional East Midlands based business, and are excited to be partnering the business to recruit a Senior Strategic Buyer into the growing and developing team.
This role is coming about owing to growth and an increase in R&D leading to some exciting plans for the future. The business is extremely well regarded as a leader in it's chosen field, and is a long and very well estblished name.
As the Senior Strategic Buyer, you will be responsible for:
* Working with existing suppliers and new suppliers to both increease the efficiency of the existing supplier based while trying to onboard new suppliers to drive positive development
* Identifying areas for strategic improvment in the existing supply chain and suggest well founded plans for change
* Initiating and managing tendering
* Developing sourcing strategies and analysing spends
* Both inter and intra-datmental communication and stakeholder management
* Working pro-actively to find and identify solutions
* Monitoring supplier performance
* Working and leading projects
* Collecting data as required and/or performing data analysis
Skills & Experience you require:
* Ability to demonstrate experience within a similar role
* Strategic supplier identification and development
* Intermediate level of Excel knowledge
* Previous knowledge of ERP systems
* Ability to work with large amounts of complex data
* Strong negotiations skills
* Experience in organising and managing competitive tenders
If you are interested in finding out about this exciting Senior Strategic Buyer opportunity, click ‘apply now'.
Chase and Holland acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. We specialise in Finance, Supply Chain, HR and IT recruitment and comfortably service Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire and Lincolnshire marketplaces.