Description
Procurement/Category Consultant (with IR35 Knowledge)
Contract Duration: 6 months
Location: London
As the Procurement/Category Consultant you will be providing end-to-end category management, strategic sourcing, and procurement of contingent labour and outsourced/technology services on a global scale.
Your time will be split 50/50 in the support of the Contingent labour category as well as supporting a variety of other categories.
You will be responsible for;
- Contingent labour category management requiring knowledge of UK regulations and English employment law, surrounding IR35, groupings of roles, rate card reviews, SoW, Ltd Company and PAYE understanding
- Collaborate with technology partners to develop and execute sourcing and procurement strategies
- Analyze industry and vendor data/trends and make recommendations to technology partners about key insights, trade-offs, and risks
- Collect requirements and specifications from technology partners and lead competitive bidding processes (eg RFx, eAuctions, etc.)
- Negotiate commercial arrangements and contracts with vendors
- Present negotiation strategies and opportunities to technology partners and management
- Assist with forecasting/planning processes, demand management, and developing contracts that scale future enterprise needs
- Drive vendor quality and performance improvement initiatives and harness vendor innovation ideas
About you;
- Strong understanding of the Financial Services Landscape
- Experience with Labour Contracts, managed services contracts
- 5+ years of relevant procurement category management experience (emphasis on contingent labour/professional services preferred)
- Previous experience with vendor management system (VMS) Beeline, and working with a Managed Service Provider
- Understanding of procurement best practices
- Experience developing and implementing process improvements
- Advanced negotiation skills
- Ability to breakdown complex problems and resolve them through independent research and analysis
- Past experience presenting to executive and senior leadership
- Experience with sourcing and procurement applications, PeopleSoft ERP, MS Office Suite and advanced Excel skills
Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.
Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.