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About the Role
Reporting to and working closely with Senior Procurement Management, you will play a key role in identifying opportunities to maximise cost efficiencies across third party relationships, maintaining a proactive approach to contract renewals and developing procurement initiatives in respect of new contracts whilst also focusing on risk of third party arrangements.
We have a bold vision for our future business and are investing in our transformation. We are committed to improving our capability across people, systems and process.
This is an excellent opportunity for the successful candidate to become part of a function that strives to drive forward procurement and supplier management within the business ensuring overall risk management whilst delivering value and efficiencies.
This is a 6 month fixed term contract.
About You
You will have excellent interpersonal skills and professional approach with a detailed knowledge of procurement within the professional services sector.
You will pro-actively manage in-year contract renewals and lead procurement activities. There is a need to collaborate with business owners to ensure contracts are renewed on time with appropriate oversight and business support in respect on new contracts. Appropriate sourcing strategies and negotiation techniques must be adopted to optimise existing commercial terms and deliver value for money.
About Us
Newcastle Building Society’s purpose is to connect communities in the North East with a better financial future.
The Procurement and Supplier Management department is a central function that provides guidance and support to the business in managing supplier relationships throughout the Supplier Lifecycle, from identification of business needs through to exit. The function maintains responsibility for agreement of new supplier relationships and supplier reviews in line with an agreed structure. It embeds a framework that ensures processes and procedures are aligned with regulatory requirements, allows for oversight of supplier risk, and drives efficiencies and cost benefits.
We operate on a hybrid model of working, this sees our colleagues work some days from home and some from our office in Cobalt Business Park, we'd love to talk through how this might work for you. Your work life balance is important to us, if you’d rather spend more time at home that’s fine by us, likewise if you prefer to spend a little more time in the office that’s fine too. We welcome conversation around when, where and how you work.
As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.
What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes:
Financial
Work/Life Balance
Health and Wellbeing
Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at [email protected]