Senior Buyer - £33k
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Location
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
£30000 - £33000 per annum
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Contact:
Stuart Brown
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Contact email:
stuart.brown@1st-executive.com
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Salary high:
33000
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Salary low:
30000
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Job ref:
11286_1521728531
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Published:
about 6 years ago
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Expiry date:
2018-04-21
1st Executive is recruiting on behalf of a high-profile Public Services institution. Our client seeks to recruit a Senior Buyer to look after the Educational category - this is an exciting opportunity to join an organisation investing heavily in the continued growth of their Procurement capability.
Role:
Your goal is to ensure that spend potential is maximised and achieves the best value for money across your team.
- Working closely with key stakeholders to ensure alignment, deliver value for money and achieve the strategic aims.
- Directly managing a team of buyer in the delivery of project within the function.
- Implementation of procurement strategy and objectives such as spend profiling, opportunity analysis and procurement benchmarking, smarter sourcing in relation to both pre and post tender processes.
- Deliver and manage procurement's above a specified spend level from source to contract, and overseeing the effective implementation of the contract award process
- Delivering Key Cross Functional Projects across the business
Experience:
- Experience working in the Public Sector is preferred
- Experience of delivering end to end tender exercises in line with OJEU
- Experience managing and leading a team within a procurement function
- Experience looking after an educational procurement function is advantageous
- Ideally, Degree and CIPS qualified