Procurement Executive - £30K

Are you an ambitious individual looking to forge a career in Procurement? Our client is an innovative, dynamic and agile player in the field of Procurement Consultancy & Advisory - and is looking to recruit a Procurement Specialist / Buyer to support indirect Procurement across a number of their key client engagements. This is a fantastic development opportunity for an ambitious, hungry and driven individual, ideally demonstrating some commercial procurement experience, and with a desire to fast-track their career in Procurement.

Role:

Working as part of a small team of commercially minded, innovative Procurement professionals, you will be provided with an opportunity to provide valuable commercial support to a broad portfolio of business critical Procurement projects.

With a large pipeline of imminent projects this is a fantastic opportunity for you to develop a range of Procurement 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 commercial Procurement experience - ideally with exposure to Indirect Procurement
• Analytical and logical nature, highly numerate with some experience of using Excel & PowerPoint
• Confident communicator with an engaging personality
• Degree qualified

Next steps:

If this is of interest of you please give Dan Eeles a call on 01483 212198 or alternatively email me to arrange a time to talk dan.eeles@1st-executive.com