Senior Buyer - West London
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Location
West London, London
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
£45000 - £60000 per annum
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Contact:
Sheila Harris
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Contact email:
sheila.harris@1st-executive.com
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Salary high:
60000
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Salary low:
45000
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Job ref:
J4014_1584716145
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Published:
about 4 years ago
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Expiry date:
2020-04-19
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Startdate:
20/03/2020
Senior Buyer
West London
Our client is a Major Global FMCG Organisation who have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Buyer who will be part of the Indirect Procurement team and manage the FM category spend across Europe including Utilities, Waste, MRO and Catering. Travel is a key part of this role as factories are based across Europe.
Key Requirements:
- Drive the strategic sourcing spend across the European Business
- Own and execute sourcing strategies
- Manage and develop supplier relationships ensuring value add, cost savings and innovation
- Demonstrate high level Procurement and technical category expertise to drive the group sourcing and agenda
- Engage effectively with stakeholders, challenging and driving improvements
- Manage category cost base in-line with budget and drive continuous improvement projects
- Responsible for setting the strategy on a European business and driving cost optimisation across the Group
- Ensuring the buying strategy enables flexibility and agility for the manufacturing footprint to transform
Person Specification:
- Ideally degree qualified or equivalent
- CIPS qualified or studying
- Experience of managing procurement within FM category, ideally within an FMCG organisation
- Lead from the front in terms of delivering a robust strategy for cost savings
- Have experience of influencing and driving stakeholder engagement
- Strong negotiation skills, tendering and contracting
- Impact and Influence - Communicates with real passion, ownership and commitment
- Pan-European experience - Sourcing
- Proven delivery of tangible benefits in quality, service, innovation and cost savings
- Ideally language skills within English and one other European language