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Senior Indirect Buyer

 Sunderland  Permanent  Up to £50,000 + Benefits Ref: 406093

The Company

Nigel Wright's Supply Chain and Procurement Team are currently working exclusively with a leading North East Manufacturing business to recruit a newly created Senior Indirect Buyer role.  The Client will support 4 days' on site working and 1 day working from home.

The Opportunity

Reporting into the Head of Department and working within a collaborative team, the Senior Indirect Buyer will be responsible for:

  • Managing Indirect spend across multiple UK sites - FM, Hygiene, HR, Marketing, Professional Services, IT, Telecomms
  • Partnering with key senior stakeholders, reviewing and consolidating spend
  • Designing Category Strategy - Spend/supplier analysis, developing category business plans
  • Developing and implementing Procurement best practice policies and processes
  • Running tenders through to award and contract negotiation, - implementation
  • Supplier performance management/due diligence

About You

The ideal Senior Indirect Buyer will have/be:

  • Proven strategic procurement track record within Indirect categories (in particular FM and/or TFM agreements beneficial)
  • Indirect Category management experience/contract management experience essential
  • Strong negotiation skills, cost analysis, commercially astute 
  • Experienced in negotiating agreements/SLAs, with a good understanding of contractual terms
  • Proactive, resilient, assertive, able to hit ground running 
  • Strengths in building relationships externally//internally - confident to challenge
  • Team player, flexible to changing priorities and able to work at pace 
For further details of this exciting new challenge, please do not hesitate to get in contact. 

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Katherine Hackett

Principal Consultant

Procurement

Newcastle Office
E: katherine.hackett@nigelwright.com
Tel: +44 191 269 0773
Mob: +44 784 134 2887