Procurement Specialist - Medical
- Employer
- Portfolio Procurement
- Location
- London, South East England
- Salary
- 30000 - 40000
- Closing date
- 11 May 2019
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- Specialist Area
- Procurement
- Sector
- Accountancy, Advertising & Creative, Automotive, Aviation, Banking, Finance and Insurance, Charities & Not For Profit, Construction, Consultancy, Customer Service, Defence, Distribution, Education, Electronics, Energy & Utilities, Engineering, Event Management, FMCG, Food Services, Healthcare, Housing, Human Resources, Information Technology, Internet, Insurance, Legal, Leisure, Management & Executive, Manufacturing, Marketing, Media, Military, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Private sector, Production & Operations, Professional Services, Public Relations, Public Sector, Recruitment, Retail, Sales, Scientific, Secretarial & Administration, Social Services, Telecommunications, Training, Transport & Distribution, Travel & Hospitality, Utilities
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
After growth within this Social Media / Online Research business and realisation of the benefits procurement brings to a business, there is a relatively newly appointed Head of Procurement who has made initial impact, so already been given the authority to recruit a Procurement Specialist (Global) to manage a range of key category areas. This position will focusing on managing and sourcing suppliers within the key spend areas such as: Market research, Data Collection or Translation Services suppliers.
Looking for someone who can work on multiple projects at any one time, complete projects end-to-end and create cost savings where applicable. Reporting into the newly appointed Head of Procurement
- Cover procurement spend across designated categories (Ideally Market research, Data Collection or Translation Services)
- End-to-end procurement management, sourcing to on-going SRM
- Work with CxO level stakeholders in the business having regular interaction with all level
- Influence key stakeholders in the business to define new and effective procurement strategies
- Identify new potential suppliers and cost saving opportunities by using market knowledge
Experience and requirements:
- Proven procurement experience within general category spend
- Ideally experience working with Market research, Data Collection or Translation Services suppliers
- Achievements within an organisation either by improved service delivery or significant cost savings
- Able to work under heavy work load in a fast paced, busy environment
- No issues with negotiating and influencing all levels of internal customer / stakeholder
- Ideally CIPS and degree qualified not essential
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