Procurement Manager
- Big Red Recruitment
- Derby, Derbyshire
- 05/10/2021
Full time
Information Technology
Telecommunications
Job Description
Do you crave the opportunity to make an impact in the workplace?
As the newly appointed Procurement Manager, you will join a driven, dynamic business with an excellent team environment. You will relish the challenge of getting to grips with the current setup (which works well), building rapport across the business and further enhancing relationships in relation to prospective procurement partners and current suppliers.
Your remit will be to integrate procurement best practices into a growing Technology service provider as they aim to centralise this function. Your focus will be to build scalable procurement processes to enable growth across departments. During this centralisation project, you will take the commercial lead for all internal and external service and supply contracts while implementing strong vendor management disciplines throughout.
You will form part of the Senior Management team, leading a team circa 7 with the ability to understand what their challenges are and to support them and being the enabler, removing obstacles to reach the end goal. It is key that you continually review, develop and improve the procurement strategy.
As the Procurement Manager, you will demonstrate:
* The ability to enhance and lead the procurement activity across the business
* Experience in commercial compliance and embedding strong corporate governance
* You will have a successful track record of delivering savings and sourcing from activities
* Experienced in contract negotiation, solution design and supporting the bid & tender process
* You will have previous experience of strategy development and implementation
* You will possess strong communication, influencing and networking skills
* Excellent team leadership skills that instil a culture where teams are motivated to succeed and have a clear development plan
Role: Procurement Manager
Location: Derby
Salary: Up to GBP 65,000 - collaborative working environment, hybrid working, pension, bonus, car allowance, 25 days + bank holiday, parking and eye tests
Keywords: procurement manager, procurement lead, procurement analyst, procurement consultant, supplier relationship management, strategy, consulting, FMCG, global, stakeholder management, project management, team leader, new product introduction, new product development, global, purchasing, supply chain
As the newly appointed Procurement Manager, you will join a driven, dynamic business with an excellent team environment. You will relish the challenge of getting to grips with the current setup (which works well), building rapport across the business and further enhancing relationships in relation to prospective procurement partners and current suppliers.
Your remit will be to integrate procurement best practices into a growing Technology service provider as they aim to centralise this function. Your focus will be to build scalable procurement processes to enable growth across departments. During this centralisation project, you will take the commercial lead for all internal and external service and supply contracts while implementing strong vendor management disciplines throughout.
You will form part of the Senior Management team, leading a team circa 7 with the ability to understand what their challenges are and to support them and being the enabler, removing obstacles to reach the end goal. It is key that you continually review, develop and improve the procurement strategy.
As the Procurement Manager, you will demonstrate:
* The ability to enhance and lead the procurement activity across the business
* Experience in commercial compliance and embedding strong corporate governance
* You will have a successful track record of delivering savings and sourcing from activities
* Experienced in contract negotiation, solution design and supporting the bid & tender process
* You will have previous experience of strategy development and implementation
* You will possess strong communication, influencing and networking skills
* Excellent team leadership skills that instil a culture where teams are motivated to succeed and have a clear development plan
Role: Procurement Manager
Location: Derby
Salary: Up to GBP 65,000 - collaborative working environment, hybrid working, pension, bonus, car allowance, 25 days + bank holiday, parking and eye tests
Keywords: procurement manager, procurement lead, procurement analyst, procurement consultant, supplier relationship management, strategy, consulting, FMCG, global, stakeholder management, project management, team leader, new product introduction, new product development, global, purchasing, supply chain
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