Category Buyer

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Butler Rose Ltd Full time

Job Title: Category Buyer

Location: London

**Salary**: £50/ 55K

Are you looking for a role within a team that offers you the support and knowledge to help you learn and develop?

Have you got experience with Hard & Soft FM/ Property and Estates Procurement?

Butler Rose Procurement are delighted to be recruiting for a Category Buyer position within a well-established Public Sector institution based in London.

About the company?

The organisation is focused on transforming lives, communities and businesses across London and the UK, working to improve sustainability and striving for excellence as a leading organisation for practice-led learning, development and evolving within the digital age.

Why join them?

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is on their 2nd or 3rd procurement role that is looking for a role that will allow you to learn, develop and grow within a small and friendly team?

About the Role:
Day to day duties of the role include
- Manage delivery of specific procurement projects
- Lead competitions of varying complexity and value
- Establish the most appropriate route to market, tendering contracts above and below statutory thresholds
- Conducting mini competitions under existing public sector framework agreements.
- Manage and facilitate targeted reviews
- Produce management performance reports
- Manage and monitor nominated contracts, both strategically and operationally
- Manage and ensure maximum value and efficiencies from procurement and related processes

What can you bring?

You will have a track record of delivery, managing close relationships with stakeholders to identify and deliver areas for improvement and success in delivering cost savings and efficiencies.

If this sounds like you, then please get in touch for more information today

Butler Rose is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

Butler Rose Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.



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