Procurement Specialist
13 days ago
Corby
Location: Corby Hours: Monday to Friday 8.30-17.00- 40 hour week Hybrid- 3 days per week onsite As our Procurement Specialist you'll responsible for the buying of goods and services relating directly to Arvato’s Facilities & Engineering Departments. Your typical day-to-day duties will include meeting with Suppliers, working on tenders RFI’s and RFQ’s, implementing Supplier Agreements, negotiating Contracts and working with internal stakeholders as a dotted line into Head of Facilities & Engineering. Your Tasks • Work closely with the Facilities & Engineering Team and take ownership and accountability of category strategy., • Preparation and execution of tenders, RFI’s and RFQ’s for facilities & engineering, • Consolidate existing Suppliers and source new, • Source new products and materials, • Negotiate and implement Supplier Agreements, • Supplier commercial negotiations, • Work with key Suppliers to improve service levels and potential group growth, • Build relationships with key internal stakeholders to ensure effective implementation of change, • Be accountable for achieving agreed targets and objectives, • Drive process standardisation and simplification, • Manage Supplier OTIF, troubleshoot associated service issues, and lead escalations, • Promote sustainability standards throughout the Arvato and Supplier supply chains Your Profile • Experience of facilities management & engineering MRO procurement within an FMCG environment, ideally warehousing and logistics, • Must be able to demonstrate hands on experience with the end-to-end RFI, RFQ and tender delivery, • ·Experience within business process design advantageous, • Able to evidence success within Supplier consolidation programs, • Strong analytical and organisational skills, • Able to create strategic and tactical plans, • Good influencer and able to work well with stakeholders, • A working knowledge of Project Management, • Able to balance priorities and work to tight deadlines, • Good communicator – clear and concise, written and verbal, • Experience with performance management and reporting, • Problem solving, • Conflict resolution skills, • Good IT skills and a working knowledge of SAP is desirable We Offer 25 days annual leave plus 8 UK bank holidays with the option to purchase up to an additional 5 days Pension contribution A life assurance policy that pays out 4 x Salary Employee Assistance Programme that provides you with confidential support, information, and advice to help you Employee Discount Scheme through Treats Free car parking