Fleet Category Buyer

We’re currently recruiting for a **Category Buyer - Fleet **to join our Centralised Fleet Team. This role will have responsibility for developing sourcing strategies and category management of fleet and associated services across the Kier Group.

**Location**: Flexible, hybrid working with travel across sites
**Contract**: Permanent, full-time, able to consider part-time opportunities

**Responsibilities**

Reporting into our Category Manager - Fleet, your role will involve, but not be limited to:

- ensuring that all processes operated by Kier’s Fleet Management Services providers are efficient and continually reviewed and improved.
- constructing and managing RFI/RFP events and leading negotiations with suppliers/service providers.
- managing both existing and future supplier relationships and contracts.
- Investigating and developing framework agreement improvements and lead other continual improvement exercises to create lasting benefits to the Kier business.
- developing and implementing sourcing strategies, including significant elements of the Kier category management process to ensure risks are mitigated and opportunities realised, ensuring all suppliers identified and can meet Kier’s policies and accreditations.

**Who are we looking for?**
- Experience of procurement techniques and a demonstrable understanding of category management tools and techniques
- A good understanding and proven track record of procurement activities in the fleet category
- CIPS qualified or actively working towards CIPS qualification
- Articulate knowledge of supply chain management principles
- Negotiation, preparation and leadership skills with a proven track record on delivering savings
- Experience of costing methods and valuation and ability to analyse financial information and identify risk
- Able to build positive working relationships with key stakeholders

**Benefits at Kier**

We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

- enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
- 26 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays
- A 24/7 virtual GP service available to you and your immediate household

And so much more You can read the full details of all our benefits on our website.

**Who is Kier?**

As a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

**Closing date: Friday 22nd September 2023**

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