Senior Category Buyer in Castle Donington

Location: Castle Donington or Bristol/Hybrid

Duration: 6 months initially

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The role will partner with the Category Manager in delivery of category strategies for key direct equipment, along with end-to-end sourcing and contract management. This will involve engaging in and building strong working relationships with stakeholders across the business, within procurement, and externally, to identify business needs and ensuring we understand the supply chains so we can offer the best solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver multiple strategic sourcing events within portfolio, working with stakeholders 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 are procured in a best-in-class manner that drives value.
• Work with Key Stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of contracted activities, identifying continuous improvement opportunities through engagement with suppliers and stakeholders, and maximising value for money from contracts awarded.
• Support the overall development and delivery of assigned category strategy and share best practice across other category teams.
• Role model excellence in procurement standards, taking a proactive role in mentoring / providing guidance to Buyers and Associate Buyers to ensure best-in-class methodologies are adopted and utilised across Procurement.
• Profile category characteristics and research supply markets, suppliers and assess trends, opportunities and risks feeding insights into the Global teams and Market and Supplier Development teams.
• Delivering value by effectively managing tender events for key products required by the business.
• 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 procured.

Requirements:

• Significant experience of strategic sourcing and category management.
• Strong experience within a parts/component/material environment building cost breakdowns; joint technical development roadmaps and innovative supply chain solutions.
• Experience working under regulated Utilities or Public Sector procurement. UCR, PCR, PA23.
• Strong influence, able to manage the cross functional team, affecting change to business design standards and constructing coherent arguments around specification rationalisation.
• An understanding of project management principles and ideally evidence of managing multiple projects and consistently delivering outstanding results.
• Ability to prepare for and to lead negotiations.
• Ability to build and manage 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.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

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