Digital Procurement - Graduate Role

at  Barkers Commercial Services Limited

ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT DIGITAL PROCUREMENT TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPING YOUR CAREER AS A CONSULTANT?

Barkers is an award-winning procurement consultancy delivering a range of outstanding procurement solutions and expertise across a wide range of industry sectors with organisations typically from the FTSE 250.
Our consultancy is rapidly expanding, and we are looking to recruit a graduate to join our successful team and work alongside our senior consultants in delivering first class digital procurement transformation.
We strive to deliver high-quality services, and our success is driven by a commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction. The role will give the ideal candidate the opportunity to learn not only procurement, P2P technology and procurement transformation across a number of different categories, but also provide you with the skills and tools to be a successful consultant with full support on your journey to being a Consulting Solution Architect.

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for a graduate with a passion for technology, process design and automation. Our ideal candidate would have an understanding of procurement and supply chain gained either through degree studies or work experience. Our ideal team member will:

• Hold bachelor’s degree in a business administration, procurement or STEM field subject.
• Have a passion for technology, process design, data and technical architecture.
• Support our Solution Architects in communicating and translating complex technical requirements into a solution that addresses client needs.
• Possess excellent communication skills, fluent in English.
• Ability to work on your own initiative in a fast-paced team.
• Desire to learn and expand your knowledge and experience whilst also being committed to your own learning, by being an inquisitive thinker and be prepared to ask questions and remain curious.
• Be comfortable with a mix of both client-facing work, which will test your project management and presentation skills, and, concentrated work which is ‘in system’ that will test your focus, attention to detail and technical skills.
• Have a sound working understanding of key procurement, finance and business process concepts.
• Have excellent people skills with the ability to build relationships at all levels.
• Numerate with the ability to assess and manipulate data.
• Possess an excellent attention to detail.
• Creative approach to problem solving.

• You will work with our team of solution architects and support the implementation of the class-leading purchase-to-pay technology within their organisation, including platform design, configuration, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
• Working closely with our Solution Architects across a range of customers you will deploy our implementation methodologies and use leading edge industry knowledge to develop impactful functional design.
• You will support (and have the opportunity to participate) in workshops and design review sessions that will ensure that clients achieve an effective functional design and configuration
• Participates in functional and design discussions with customers and partners
• Participates in design and architecture reviews
• Translates business process requirements into functional and technical options
• Undertake project management activities
• Collate, interpret and translate business processes into new and best practice system processes