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Senior Buyer

4 months ago

Greater Manchester, United Kingdom Light & Wonder Full time

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Position Summary


As Senior Buyer - Indirects, you will provide the sourcing strategy and processes to control and support all departments on indirect (non-product) spend including but not limited to information technology, facilities, travel, telecom, Human Resources, Professional Services, marketing, travel, and office supplies.


This role is located in our Manchester office and is a hybrid role, but some travel will be expected as this role covers the EMEA region. The working pattern will be working 38.75 hours per week, 5 days a week, Monday to Friday working flexibly between the hours of 8am-6pm.


Responsibilities

  • Delivering annual cost savings and working capital improvements.
  • Leading the strategic sourcing for the indirect categories for the EMEA region and supporting the global procurement team with the implementation of enterprise-wide agreements.
  • Responsible for leading the planning, aligning, and execution of key procurement strategies across all indirect categories.
  • Drive strategic sourcing and optimization activities with all functional stakeholder’s enterprise-wide by bringing specific knowledge of the market and suppliers.
  • Negotiate the contract with vendors to ensure favorable terms for Light & Wonder.
  • Ensure effective use of budgets in the spend areas that fall within the area of responsibility and continue to drive savings and value, minimize risk, and further create operational efficiencies.
  • Support the ongoing development of the company-wide procurement processes and partner with all levels of leadership cross-functionally to build impactful, efficient, and cost-effective vendor relationships.
  • Highlighting improvements to our procurement processes and adhering to audit and SOX control requirements.


Qualifications and requirements

  • Ideally CIPS or MCIPS qualified.
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office modules such as Excel, Oracle and/or Navision.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Problem solving/ analytical skills, with great attention to detail.
  • Presentation and report writing capabilities.
  • Ability to work with and influence several internal and external stakeholders across the regional offices.
  • Flexibility and multi-tasking, to be able to provide strategy for all indirect category areas and collaborate with overseas colleagues to deliver cost avoidance, savings, better payment terms, visibility of spend and sustainable sourcing.
  • Ability to lead buyers on their own product categories.


Qualifications


  • Annual Performance bonus
  • 5% employer pension contributions
  • 33 days' holiday (inc. Bank Holidays, some flexibility maybe required around the Financial calendar however that flexibility will be replicated back)
  • Paid leave to work on charitable projects, half day for Well-being & Health and a "celebration" day to celebrate things like Birthdays and special occasions
  • Access to Reward Hub, a reward platform offering shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Study support and career development
  • Cycle to work scheme