Buyer

A global financial services business are looking for a Buyer to join their newly formed purchasing department at their West Sussex site. This role will be hybrid (3 days a week in the office), however the initial training period would require the successful candidate to be in for 5 days a week. This means all candidates applying will need to be in a commutable distance.

Role Responsibilities:

• Reviewing and challenging supplier on-boarding and new category requests.

• Work closely with internal business colleagues to understand their requirements and guide them through the transactional buying process ensuring that the appropriate buying channels are leveraged.

• Provide buying advice and purchasing support to internal business stakeholders.

• Liaise with Procurement Managers to support the set-up and maintenance of PSLs, framework agreements, rate cards and catalogues.

• Validate category set-ups and new supplier requests against existing supplier list.

• Undertake transactional RFQ activity on behalf of business stakeholders.

• Support Procurement Managers to implement a purchasing card for low spend activity.

• Manage contract renewal cycles, engaging with Procurement Managers as required.

• Act as first point of contact for transactional buying queries, developing stakeholder relationships, challenging and influencing to ensure the best outcome for the business.

• Provide regular feedback to Procurement Managers highlighting trends, challenges, issues and opportunities that may become evident through business stakeholder engagement.

• Champion continual improvement and procurement best practice within the global business.
  
  

Skills & Experience Needed:

• Experience of transactional Buying and buying channel management, utilising PSLs, framework agreements, rate cards and catalogues.

• Experience of preparing, issuing and analysing RFQs

• Experience of building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships providing both support and challenge.

• Strong negotiation and supplier engagement skills.

• Excellent IT and numeracy skills, especially Microsoft Office.

• Experience of process implementation, management and improvement.

• Demonstrable experience operating in a commercially focused / strategic procurement team.

• Track record of global/regional delivery across complex environments.

• Demonstrable experience of utilising and managing procurement systems and tools.

• Strong analytics experience in order to understand and interpret information, bringing insight.
  
  

Desirable Experience:

• Experience of using P2P and procurement systems.

• Experience of ServiceNow and Oracle Fusion systems.

• Experience of using Power BI reporting suite.

• Experience of coordinating a transactional procurement implementation project and transitioning to a business as usual operating model.