Category Buyer
1 week ago
Job Title: Category Buyer
Location: Nottingham
**Salary**: £35,000 - £40,000 (+ car allowance of up to 5k)
Hybrid: 4 days at home
An exciting opportunity with large multi-national organisation, based in Nottingham are looking for a Category Buyer to join their ever expanding business. This role deals within over 12 European Countries with over 10,000 employees. They specialise withinmultiple sectors specialising in providing award winning supply chain resolutions.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Build and maintain strong supplier relationships and relationships with all relevant stakeholders.
- Provide a skilled negotiation service, to minimise expenditure but maximise value-added advantages including areas of cost avoidance.
- Use best practice sourcing and evaluation techniques, using market intelligence, benchmarking, market testing, competitive tendering, pre-qualification, evaluation, and recommendation of potential suppliers.
- Develop service level agreements and key performance indicators to monitor and measure suppliers against pre-determined targets as part of ongoing supplier contract management.
**Key Skills**
- Strong negotiation skills, contract management knowledge and experience understanding cost makeup.
- Strong relationship builder with ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organisation as well as with external suppliers.
- Drive to achieve best value and ongoing cost reduction.
- A proven record of purchasing non-production materials and commodities.
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