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