Senior Buyer | Global Technology Brand
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Beth Adams
Talent Drive is pleased to be partnering with a global technology brand who are a leader in consulting, IT services and software development in Europe, providing their clients with the highest level of assistance and guidance to ensure the success of their complex transformation projects.
With the support of the Procurement Manager, the Senior Buyer will be supporting a client in managing third party supplier requirements, including but not limited to, new supplier assessment and onboarding, contractual negotiations and drafting, risk mitigation and delivery of cost savings against targets.
The offices are based in Hertfordshire, and they offer a truly flexible working pattern to ensure you have a healthy work-life balance. You can work remotely for the majority of the time, with 2 days a month to enjoy working in their modern offices.
Key Responsibilities
- Working with the Procurement Business Partner, support development of the procurement strategy, working practices, and promote procurements capabilities.
- Supporting the Procurement Business Partner to ensure Procurement is at the forefront and is leading activities for any new third party requirements.
- Help drive selection of suppliers through comprehensive sourcing processes utilising eSourcing, tools, etc where appropriate.
- Interrogate spend data to monitor suppliers and identify areas for re-negotiation, consolidation and savings identification.
- 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.
- Help identify supplier and procurement risk through all stages of a supplier engagement.
- 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.
- Support the investigation any new and alternative sources of supply and third-party technology in the marketplace to enhance competition between suppliers and to capitalize on any benefits.
- Work closely with other business support functions, such as Commercial, Legal, Data Protection and Security to ensure that supplier engagements and contract drafting is aligned to the needs of the business.
- Work closely with the wider Procurement Team to ensure parity of processes and establish any opportunities for leveraging suppliers and spend across the wider business to provide category improvement.
Skills and experience required
- Experience of working in a Procurement or Category Management role.
- Experience in P2P/ERP systems.
- Experience of dealing with supplier negotiations on pricing and contractual terms in order to deliver savings, reduce risk and deliver commercial value.
- Good working knowledge of contract terms, contracting processes and drafting.
- Good working knowledge of procurement process and practices, including, scoping, tendering, evaluation, selection and contracting.
- Able to demonstrate a good level of commercial awareness.
- Experience of developing positive stakeholder relationships to promote and ensure adherence to procurement practices.
- A team player who is experienced working in a challenging and demanding environment.
- Positive experience of developing supplier relations for positive outcomes.
- Ability to execute and deliver against targets and objectives within a busy working environment.
- Demonstrates tenacity and is capable of engaging challenging stakeholder and supplier situations.
- Experience of working in a complex organisation.
Salary and Benefits
£40,000-£47,000
- Pension
- Competitive benefits package.
- Flexible working pattern
- Progression opportunities
- Hertfordshire – X2 monthly travels, the rest remote.
For more information, please apply directly or for more information please email: beth@talentdrive.co.uk
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