Senior Procurement Executive/ Senior Buyer
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
• Support the delivery of the category strategy and deployment of the supplier relationship management program
• Involvement in the development of sourcing strategies, including identifying risks, key outputs, and products
• Support Category Leads or Category Managers with SRM activities, handle allocated supplier relationships
• Support sourcing activities across the wider team (Category Directors or Category Managers in other categories), as the need arises depending on workload
• The PR/PO pipeline for the assigned Category of spend
• Review pipelines of projects, PR/PO approvals, SOWs approvals in Fieldglass, and liaise with the Category Lead and relevant Category Managers
Required Skills:-
• Good experience in buying / procurement (IT Professional Services e.g., developers, testers, system implementors, business analysts, etc.)
• Commercially minded and proficient negotiator
• Ability to assess, prioritise workload and meet agreed target dates
• Strong IT skills (Office programs: Excel, Teams, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Outlook; Procurement systems desirable: Ariba, Fieldglass)