Buyer - £35K (9 Month FTC)

Are you an ambitious individual looking to develop your career in Procurement & Supplier Management? Our client is an innovative, dynamic and agile market leader. This is a fantastic development opportunity for an ambitious, hungry and driven individual, ideally demonstrating some commercial procurement & supplier management experience, and with a desire to fast-track their career in a Procurement & Supplier Management function undergoing significant transformation.

Role: Working as part of a small team of commercially minded, innovative Procurement & Supplier Management professionals, you will be provided with an opportunity to provide valuable commercial support across a broad portfolio of business critical supplier contracts.

With a large pipeline of imminent projects this is a fantastic opportunity for you to develop a range of Procurement & Supplier Management skills - encompassing Spend Analysis, Supplier Analysis, Tendering, e-sourcing and e-procurement. You will be provided with fantastic opportunities to support the full end to end tender process, helping compose RFI and RFP documents whilst being involved in the analysis and review of associated supplier responses. In turn, you will support supplier negotiations and benefit from hands-on coaching and mentoring in negotiation scenario's. You will work closely with the team to help prepare presentations and market insight for presentation to key stakeholders. As such, it is expected that you build relationships and work closely with both existing and potential suppliers in order to leverage valuable market insight in order to help support all aspects of performance improvement.

Experience:

• Demonstrates some Procurement or Supplier / Contract Management experience
• Analytical and logical nature, highly numerate with some experience of using Excel & PowerPoint
• Confident communicator with an engaging personality
• Degree qualified