The Buyer will be report into the Category Manager
Responsibility to support 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.
Implement and maintain supplier management programs across all key areas of spend.
Support project across the Business Services and Soft Services team.
Responsibilities
Sourrcing, Negotiations & Contracting
Support and Lead on strategic procurement activities
Support on complex high value sourcing activities and negotiations, identifying new and more competitive sources of supply
Negotiate and influence suppliers to achieve best market value
Ability to identify cost reduction opportunities within the business
Liaise with suppliers to resolve issues with performance and regularly review, suggest, and develop improvements
Development of category strategies aligned to the business need
Stakeholder Management
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
Managing relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders, from aligning with internal colleagues to gather, assess and challenge business requirements to appropriately challenging external stakeholders whilst maintaining relationships
Supplier Management
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 improvementKEY EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS:
3rd Party Suppliers
Professional and Industry GroupsKEY INTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS:
Linked-in
Google