Key responsibilities will include :
Provide inputs to the Senior Buyer manage the strategy to drive down costs, leveraging value deliver (e.g. cost and risk management strategies, service levels, quality, continuous improvements supporting the business, mitigating business risks
Partner with internal stakeholders alongside Senior Buyer to identify sourcing opportunities, business requirements to run procurement of tactical spend
Run tactical sourcing with suppliers to ensure a fair and responsible procurement of services or goods according to companies’ best practices
Negotiate contracts and liaise the execution of the agreement with legal department.
Support Procurement Excellence to monitor targets, market dynamics that impact materials / services availability and / or pricing, and organization behaviour
Perform transactional activities related to supplier setup (only before boost), data management, category spend and other project activities, including the :
Issuing purchase orders
Monitoring and following up on non-delivered purchase orders
Manage price and information changes
Support internal stakeholders with procurement related tasks and perform data stewardship activities (e.g. data maintenance / cleaning) to assures masterdata is properly maintained in the system to be called off
Key Success Profile Capabilities :
LEAD- Manage procurement workload, looking after purchase orders creation and follow up, and promote continuous improvements
COMMUNICATE- Manage stakeholders and keep up to date on delivery dates and changes
DELIVER RESULTS- Support team in savings and tactical goals
INNOVATE- support develop supplier relationships to deliver improvements for Calor, in both cost and service level
SUPPORT- key part of the team, working in collaboration with other Buyers and Procurement Excellence team to provide the best procurement support to end users.
Coordination with Other Professionals :
Internal :
Functional Leaders
Business Sites & Users
Procurement Excellence
Senior Buyers
Consultants
Professional accredited bodies
Additional Information
Team size 9 individuals, reporting into a Senior Buyer
Managing a tactical portfolio within Senior Buyer’s scope of work
Targeted savings and other procurement value contributions in line with Procurement Strategy, aggregated to team target
Mitigating business risks with Supplier development and relationship improvement
Active development of Stakeholder relationships across the business
As such we would like you to have / be :
Educated to a Bachelor degree level or CIPS qualified or equal through 1+ years of Procurement experience
Knowledge of procurement activities, including tactical sourcing with demonstrable successes achieved
Great knowledge of Procurement / ERP systems and processes, including creation of purchase orders. Experience in SAP and / or Ariba would be preferable
Experience of tracking of KPIs and orders follow up
Demonstrates good interpersonal, and communication skills to multiple levels of the organisation
Analytical and organised
We look for people who are open minded, embrace new ways of working, step out of their comfort zone seek out new opportunities and look to continuously learn.
Opportunities to progress, to develop and to be recognised for your achievements are part of our daily life, and we want to share that with you! Together with your commitment, drive and personal performance, we believe you can bring out the best in yourself at Calor.
If this sounds like you, please apply by clicking the link below.
We look forward to hearing from you!
To be considered for the above opportunity you must be eligible to live and work in UK and hold a full driving licence that is valid for you to drive in the UK.
You must also be medically fit to drive.
We are a responsible business where safety is our number one priority. As such, during any visit to, or employment with Calor, you may be randomly selected to undergo a drugs and alcohol test.
Such results, which would be shared with you, may be taken into consideration in relation to any employment application or continued employment.
If you are successful in being offered this role, you will be required to carry out pre-employment checks including but not limited to a medical assessment and DBS (basic disclosure) check.
Calor Gas Ltd. is committed to the fair treatment of its staff, potential staff or users of its services, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependants, age, physical / mental disability or offending background.
