Procurement Specialist

A leading energy business is recruiting for an IT Procurement Specialist covering all their internal IT spend. Working closely with key stakeholders to support the business to develop a suite of contracts to support the ambition of the business.

As Procurement Specialist (IT) your key responsibilities will be:

• Contributing to identifying a range of third-party services required to support the business plans
• Developing supply chain strategies
• Gaining Supply Chain Manager and business stakeholders “buy-in”
• Timely delivery of a portfolio of contracts to support the agreed supply chain strategy
• Negotiating and obtaining agreements to the optimum supply chain strategy for the business, including identifying and leveraging group supply chain synergies where practical
• Generating and recording savings for the company by effective supply chain management
• Developing a supplier base that is appropriate to the size and complexity of the organisation and mitigates the supplier risk in a suitable manner
• Ensuring that third party suppliers and contractors both understand and work in alignment with our health, safety, environment and quality practices and standards
• Ensuring that suppliers deliver the expected goods and services to the required quality in a timely manner and at the agreed costs. Manage exceptions effectively and ensure mitigating actions are put in place and followed
• Ensuring that our risks are understood and mitigated to an agreed level through effective contracts and development of appropriate professional relationships with our key suppliers and contractors
• Assisting with the ongoing review of supply chain practices and procedures and ad hoc project work
• Skills and experience required:
• Previous experience of IT purchasing, in the areas of Software, Telecoms, Hardware, Service Integration and IT Security
• Excellent written and verbal communication and project planning skills
• Experience in Bid Process Management including supplier sourcing, documentation, evaluation and selection and managing the tendering and award of contracts for high-value multidiscipline contracts
• Experience in negotiating high-value contracts
• MCIPS or working towards
• Stakeholder management skills with experience and ability in working and advising Senior Management
• Demonstrate experience of developing supply chain strategies for projects
• Have a sound understanding of contract and commercial law and contractual terms and conditions
• Be able to understand complex commercial issues and drive complex commercial negotiations to a conclusion
• Be a team player with a proven experience working with cross-functional teams

In applications we will be looking for:

• A competent, persuasive, credible and effective communicator
• An accomplished strategic thinker
• Highly motivated with very high standards of professionalism, service and quality
• Be a team player with a proven experience working with cross-functional teams

Benefits of the Procurement Specialist (IT) role include:

• £36-45,000
• 5% bonus
• Pension scheme
• Flexible benefits
• Friendly working environment
• Training and development