Gleesons has partnered with a national business looking for a Category Buyer This Opportunity would be best fitted to a professional looking to further grow their career awhile adding there knowledge to business policy.
Job Title: Category Buyer
Locations: Stoke on Trent
Salary: £28 - 45,000
Duties:
- Maintain and support the procurement system ensuring all contracts are current, signed, and accompanied by relevant supplier policies and key documentation.
- Implement effective sourcing practices in accordance with policy guidelines.
- Achieve cost reduction objectives.
- Manage supplier performance within each spending category, in coordination with the Category Manager, ensuring supplier KPIs are met.
- Assist in enforcing procurement policy for expenditures.
- Support the Category Manager and Procurement Lead with higher spending categories and contribute to the development and continuation of the overall procurement strategy.
- Plan priorities and activities based on business impact, while also accommodating reactive business requirements. Assist Procurement Lead and Category Managers with meeting organisation, document preparation, system uploads, and contract improvements.
- Make independent decisions regarding work priorities and relationships and organise internal procurement processes. Advise and influence employees on best practices.
- Engage daily with business stakeholders, with frequent interaction with Legal and Finance functions and occasional interaction with the Executive Team. Provide guidance to individual employees and maintain significant supplier contact.
- Communicate through face-to-face meetings, phone calls, Teams meetings, emails, and occasional presentations. Interactions range from information gathering to advising managers on procurement issues and making recommendations.
- Advise on procurement issues and influence managers and employees at the business to agree on procurement steps. Building effective relationships with stakeholders is key to raising the procurement department's profile.
- Address problems autonomously while seeking line manager guidance as needed.
- Demonstrate creativity in seeking continuous improvement opportunities.
Ideal Candidate:
- Has working knowledge and commercial awareness of purchasing and procurement principles.
- Buyer Experience ( IT / General / Indirect )
- Experience in Negotiation / Contracts
- Experience in Category Plans
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