Senior Operational Buyer

Your new company

You will have the opportunity to work for an award-winning organisation who are part of the Fortune 500. They have a rich heritage of winning multiple awards that recognise excellence in collaborative work with clients and are in the top 50 most inclusive employers to work for in the UK. A leader in mechanical and electrical construction, industrial and energy infrastructure, and building services.

Your new role

To manage procurement for the businesses projects and facilities management scope at their client site in Barrow. You will have the opportunity to develop and work closely with experienced procurement colleagues including the Supply Director, Head of Projects Procurement and Category Leads and other Ops/Project Buyers to ensure a robust and forward-thinking supply chain solution to effectively deliver engineering excellence.
• Ensure that all procurement activity is undertaken in line with the overall organisational strategy category plan account specific procurement plan and procurement best practice.
• Develop the procurement account strategy in partnership with the account team and take ownership to lead the delivery.
• Continuously analyse market trends, supplier performance and cost structures to identify risks and opportunities for improvement and implement risk mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with Category team to develop wider relationships with specialist supply chain to suit product / service / geographical gaps and support growth opportunities to align with business need. Ensure supply chain is appropriately accredited and provides sufficient competition and value for money for all account needs.
• Identify, select, develop and manage new supply chain to support future business through a rigorous evaluation process, ongoing performance measurement, contract review and benchmarking
• Negotiate and deliver cost savings through negotiation. Evidence value for money that can be demonstrated to our customers.
• Initiate a risk based approach to supplier tendering, selection and award, building in commercial analysis of tenders / negotiations to ensure caveats / assumptions are well managed the correct financial model is used and any KPIS / SLAs / Programme risk is negotiated and back-to-back with supply chain.
• Identify innovation and ensure that these are presented to our accounts to increase revenue and margin opportunities.
• Provide a culture of continuous improvement delivering improvements that support the organisation’s requirements, ensuring that account stakeholders are seen as a customer and engage to gain feedback to set improvement objectives and deliver against account procurement plan.

Person Specification
• Experience working on large scale construction projects working within a procurement role.
• SC and or DV clearance is essential
• Ideally you will procurement experience working within the FM category.
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• A passion for procurement and supply chain
• Experience dealing with complex contracts
• Strong negotiation skills

Benefits
• £55,000 per annum + car allowance
• 25 days holidays + public holidays (option to buy 5)
• Industry leading Maternity & Paternity Policies
• Excellence Learning & Development opportunities
• Discount on Shopping, Gym, Days Out
• Bike to Work Scheme
• Medicash – Health cash plan
• Employee Assistant Programme – Offering guidance and advice on Personal, Health, Legal and Financial queries
• Various Rewards & Recognition Awards
• Stable employer with long-term prospects on the contract

If this opportunity resonates with you or you may know someone, please send an updated copy of your CV to alex.donnellan@morson.com