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Buyer

Employer
Confidential
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
35000.00 - 45000.00 GBP Annual + Bonus
Closing date
22 Jul 2022

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Specialist Area
Buyer
Sector
Retail
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
A global financial services business are looking for a Buyer to join their newly formed purchasing department at their West Sussex site.

This role will be hybrid (3 days a week in the office), however the initial training period would require the successful candidate to be in for 5 days a week. This means all candidates applying will need to be in a commutable distance.

Role Responsibilities:

Reviewing and challenging supplier on-boarding and new category requests.
Work closely with internal business colleagues to understand their requirements and guide them through the transactional buying process ensuring that the appropriate buying channels are leveraged.
Provide buying advice and purchasing support to internal business stakeholders.
Liaise with Procurement Managers to support the set-up and maintenance of PSLs, framework agreements, rate cards and catalogues.
Validate category set-ups and new supplier requests against existing supplier list.
Undertake transactional RFQ activity on behalf of business stakeholders.
Support Procurement Managers to implement a purchasing card for low spend activity.
Manage contract renewal cycles, engaging with Procurement Managers as required.
Act as first point of contact for transactional buying queries, developing stakeholder relationships, challenging and influencing to ensure the best outcome for the business.
Provide regular feedback to Procurement Managers highlighting trends, challenges, issues and opportunities that may become evident through business stakeholder engagement.
Champion continual improvement and procurement best practice within the global business.

Skills & Experience Needed:

Experience of transactional Buying and buying channel management, utilising PSLs, framework agreements, rate cards and catalogues.
Experience of preparing, issuing and analysing RFQs
Experience of building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships providing both support and challenge.
Strong negotiation and supplier engagement skills.
Excellent IT and numeracy skills, especially Microsoft Office.
Experience of process implementation, management and improvement.
Demonstrable experience operating in a commercially focused / strategic procurement team.
Track record of global/regional delivery across complex environments.
Demonstrable experience of utilising and managing procurement systems and tools.
Strong analytics experience in order to understand and interpret information, bringing insight.

Desirable Experience:

Experience of using P2P and procurement systems.
Experience of ServiceNow and Oracle Fusion systems.
Experience of using Power BI reporting suite.
Experience of coordinating a transactional procurement implementation project and transitioning to a business as usual operating model

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