Role: Sourcing Event Senior Buyer REF 95728
Contract Length: 15 months
Location: Aldermaston
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Sourcing Event Senior Buyer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SOURCING EVENT SENIOR BUYER
- Utilising expert knowledge to complete all buying activities, including being responsible for complex orders, ensuring that demands are understood and met, and issues are dealt with promptly.
- Provide reporting requirements to SEMT Manager as required and seek out new and simplified reporting opportunities.
- Responsible for any requested Service Centre reporting within the Tower structure assigned.
- Management of allocated supplier relationships.
- Developing and maintaining working relationships and awareness with internal Supply Chain Management and key internal stakeholders to ensure SCM processes are being adhered to whilst maintaining prompt placement of orders.
- Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security, quality, positivity and be a great team player.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain robust and open relationships with SEMT colleagues at all levels.
- Build and maintain robust relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure accurate order placement and on time delivery in line with the business needs.
- Delivering objectives to agreed timescales.
- Ensuring Supply Chain processes, tools and systems are adhered to, leading by example and ensuring the correct route to marketplace is selected.
- Promoting and ensuring the use of a fully evaluated and approved supply base.
- Working with key stakeholders to ensure the speedy resolution of queries, expediting of deliverables and closing overdue commitments in a timely manner.
- Responsible for periodic reporting and presenting of Service Level Agreement performance of the SEMT activities
- Driving change and championing best practice to promote the Service Centre SEMT function and where appropriate, participating in the review of Supply Chain or other processes and procedures to drive continuous improvement.
- Actively seeking learning and development opportunities. Providing training, mentoring and coaching to other SEMT members.
- Consistently demonstrating positive behaviours in line with the company's environmental, sustainability, safety, health, security, quality and ethics standards.
- The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SOURCING EVENT SENIOR BUYER
- Intermediate skill level in MS Office – Excel and Word.
- Experienced user of electronic purchasing systems e.g. Jaggaer Source to Contract or similar system working knowledge.
- Accuracy in data entry and attention to detail.
- Confident developing working relationships both internally and externally.
- Data Analysis – working with multiple spreadsheets / data points.
- Clear and confident communicator, able to explain complex problems.
- Able to develop constructive relationships both internally and externally.
- Proactive approach to problem solving, tackles issues before they become problems and facilitation skills when needed enabling a ‘return to green’ approach in a timely manner.
- Actively leading and encouraging others on continuous improvement and marginal gains delivery
- Aptitude for working in a process led environment.
- Able to adapt method of communicating to a range of stakeholders.
- Experience in working in a highly regulated environment.
- Experience of using online sourcing software (i.e. JAGGAER, Oracle, Ariba or similar) will be required.
- High level of experience of conducting source to contract activities for standard, complex, strategic and exception Procurements, including commercial experience in obtaining and analysing quotations. Management of Tender communications and Documents.
- Good communication skills, be comfortable dealing with stakeholders and have an enthusiastic can-do attitude.
- Stakeholder management - dealing tactfully and constructively with challenging people and situations using soft skills to confidently present the SEMT process & performance to all levels of the Business.
- Track record in working in a fast-paced customer focussed department.
- Building working relationships both internally and externally.
- Working closely as a team member, being an effective team collaborator.
- Delivering objectives on time, in full.
- Planning and prioritising workload.
- Working in a procurement or customer services function.
- Experience within a Buying role in a similar organisation or industry.
If you are a Sourcing Event Senior Buyer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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