Description
Senior Buyer
Warwick & Solihull
6 months
Purpose
Reporting into a Category Manager, the Senior Buyer is responsible for strategic procurement operations within the aligned business area(s). The role will partner the Category Manager in delivery of Sourcing Events. This will involve engaging and building strong and established working unions with partners to identify business needs, ensuring we understand the supply chains and developing and implementing effective sourcing strategies so we can offer the best solutions.
Key Accountabilities
- Deliver multiple strategic sourcing events within portfolio, working with partners to understand and challenge demand and ensure the best possible solutions.
- Input into the development and execution of sourcing strategy for allocated category and execute standardised strategic sourcing processes from market engagement through to award, ensuring goods/services are procured in an elite manner that drives value.
- Work with Contract Managers to ensure the successful delivery of contracted activities, identifying continuous improvement opportunities through engagement with suppliers and partners, and improving value for money from contracts awarded.
- Delivering value by effectively handling tender events for key products required by the business.
- Scope and develop regional contractual agreements that meet the customer partner requirements and expectations.
- Support the overall development and delivery of assigned category strategy and share standard methodology across other category teams (as appropriate).
- Profile category characteristics and research supply markets, suppliers and assess trends, opportunities and risks fostering insights into the Global teams and Market and Supplier Development teams (as appropriate).
- Contribute to an effective forward planning process by identifying future requirements of supported areas and ensure robust forecasting is put in place that maximises value of goods/services procured.
- Role model perfection in procurement standards, taking a dedicated role in providing guidance to Buyers and Associate Buyers to ensure premier methodologies are embraced and utilized across Procurement.
Experience
- Significant experience of strategic sourcing and category management
- An understanding of project management principles and ideally evidence of leading multiple projects and consistently delivering excellent results.
- Ability to prepare for and to lead negotiations.
- Ability to build and handle complex commercial assessment models.
- Experience of contract development, including the ability to make recommendations and amendments to existing contracts as well as drafting new ones.