Buyer

Location: Birmingham or London – occasional travel to different sites required

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Job Overview

The Buyer will be report into the Category Manager. You will be responsible for supporting in business unit & category strategy development, execution, and sourcing activity, ensuring supply chain solutions are fit for purpose, aligned to business needs, and represent lowest total cost, optimal service, and highest quality with relevant impactful supply base innovation.

As the Buyer, you will implement and maintain supplier management programs across all key areas of spend. You will support project across the Business Services and Soft Services team.

Main Duties

You will support and lead on strategic procurement activities and support on complex high value sourcing activities and negotiations, identifying new and more competitive sources of supply. The Buyer will negotiate and influence suppliers to achieve best market value and have the ability to identify cost reduction opportunities within the business.

Additional requirements:

• Manage and support a wide range of internal stakeholders
• Supporting the development and delivery of annual targets and goals across cost, quality, reliability, and delivery
• Work cross-functionally with other departments and internal stakeholders
• Implementation and maintenance of Supplier Management Program covering all strategic and preferred suppliers, reviewing current processes and procedures, and identifying areas for improvement
• Measure supplier performance to identify areas for improvement

What we are looking for

• 2 to 4 years procurement experience, showing evidence of considerable self-development.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and analytical skills (written and oral), customer facing skills, excellent organizational skills, time management skills.
• Accountable and dedicated, with a proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving and fast paced environment.
• Clear track record of stakeholder management with a clear focus on strategy implementation and risk mitigation.
• Capable of conflict management and resolution.
• CIPS qualification is preferred but not essential.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.