Senior Strategic Buyer with English (MBS category)

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What you can expect to be responsible for as a Senior Strategic Buyer:

• Supporting category managers with category strategy plans, sourcing execution, supporting category planning and strategic sourcing tasks

• Identifying and communicating with a diverse range of stakeholders, such as suppliers, project sponsors, end-users and other supporting functions such as HR, Legal and Finance.

• Leveraging the GEP network of Category Experts and tools, to deliver insights to any project / client.

• Providing support with respect to Supplier Management/ Procurement processes and policies.

• Establishing negotiation strategies, identifying and developing negotiation levers, validating them with stakeholders and leading negotiations to ensure savings, timely supply and other benefits for purchases, business analytics, savings reporting and tracking, stakeholder interaction as part of the S2C program

• Discussing with vendors and evaluating their products and capabilities as suppliers;

• Using SMART by GEP® technology and client ERP system for procurement operations;

• Demonstrating continuous effort to improve operations, manage SOP’s, decrease turnaround times and streamline work processes;

• Managing all supplier selection and procurement activities (e.g. RFI, RFP, RFQ, Scorecard and Bid Analysis)

• Working cooperatively and jointly to provide quality seamless customer service;

• Leading a small/medium sized team;
• Participating in firm building activities, including recruitment

Fitting experience for the role would be:

• 5-7 years of expertise in strategic sourcing
• Experience with the MBS category (Marketing & Business Services)
• Proficiency in English, additional European language is considered as a plus (both written and spoken)
• Experience with managing and mentoring small to medium sized teams, both from an operational and career perspective

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of large-scale centralized purchasing

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in order to comfortably engage with all levels of management in client organizations

• Strong analytical, reporting and presentation skills i.e. regarding creating baselines, performing market tests/analyses, summarizing the key points succinctly by email/in presentation

• Experience with leading and executing negotiations

• Ability to manage multiple procurement projects at once and assess new purchase requirements based on spend risk etc.

• Knowledge of variety of categories would be advantageous (trends, suppliers, industry specifics and terminology, legal frameworks)
• Advantage: Any business process improvement methodology such as TQM, Six Sigma, APEX etc.