Purchasing Executive

5 months ago


Gloucester, United Kingdom Claranet Full time

**About The Role**:
**Position Summary**

The Purchasing Executive is responsible for completing all purchases in accordance with Claranet UK Finance guidelines and delivering consistent cost avoidance on an ongoing basis across all spend categories.

**Role Mission**

The Purchasing Executive will support the Procurement team to deliver consistent savings across all spend categories.

**Objectives and Key Results**

Deliver all purchasing activities and maximise cost avoidance and rebate savings where applicable.

Essential duties and responsibilities
- Verifying costs with suppliers and in particular assisting with multi-site quoting for large telco (special bids).
- Responding daily to all queries arising from other teams.
- Identifying alternative pricing options and suppliers which may provide competitive advantage.
- Raising purchase requisitions and purchase orders and ordering from suppliers.
- Ensuring the correct specifications are ordered and delivered by the supplier.
- Assisting the Purchasing Specialist with price books and sharing costs with the Financial Planning and Analysis teams for pricing tools.
- Timely turnaround of pricing and order placement to agreed operations level agreement between departments.
- In conjunction with the Category Manager and Purchasing Specialist reviewing key areas of spend and preparing a pipeline of savings opportunities.
- Monitoring auto-renewals and liaising with business stakeholders to ensure termination windows not elapsed
- Assisting the Purchasing Specialist with reporting on cost avoidance measures and achievements against savings targets.
- Ensuring that purchases are placed through key suppliers to drive savings through rebate schemes.

**Teams to collaborate with**
- All UK teams - the provision of purchasing services as detailed above across the business.

**About You**:
**Position specifica**tions**

**Behavioural competencies - organisational and behavioural fit**.
- Flexible and creative to take considered risks.
- Learn and adapt quickly to changing situations.
- Self-motivated and able to work under pressure.
- Ability to travel to different sites and locations as required.
- Manages conflict and challenges in an open and constructive manner.

**Critical competencies - technical fit**
- Commercial / Purchasing experience advantageous.
- Working knowledge of supplier ordering tools advantageous
- Demonstrate the ability to prioritise, multitask and work to tight deadlines.
- Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously for important clients and large organisations.
- Excellent organisational skills & experience of project management
- Be proactive, have the ability to work on own initiative as well as within a team in a support capacity.

**About Us**:
**About Claranet**

At Claranet, we’re experienced in implementing progressive technology solutions which help our customers solve their epic business challenges. We’re committed to understanding their problems, delivering answers quickly, and making a lasting impact to their business.

We are agile, focused and experienced in business modernisation. Our approach helps customers make genuine, significant shifts in their business strategy, to deliver financial savings, boost innovation, and create a resilient business. We continually invest in our people and the latest technologies, so our customers get peace of mind knowing that they have access to the best talent and services.

In the UK we have over 500 staff working in London, Gloucester, Warrington, Bristol, and Leeds, or as homeworkers.

**Working for Claranet**

Here at Claranet we pride ourselves on going the extra mile for and with our employees (yes, we really mean with). We offer an extensive benefits package that you can tailor to your needs, inclusive of a matching contribution pension scheme, healthcare, insurance, dental, discounted gyms and app supported benefit access.

But what we think makes us different is ‘Team Claranet,’ our dedicated internal part of the business that supports you with matters close to your heart. We proudly support local charities in each of our office locations, support employees with paid charity leave, organise key charity fundraising event per year and have a dedicated committee responsible for supporting employee’s fundraising efforts.

Claranet is one of the 10 founding members of TC4RE (Technology Community for Racial Equality.) Being a part of a group of leading UK technology organisations, we are dedicated to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce. We are also very proud members of Tech Talent Charter, a government supported, industry-led membership group created to address the UK’s tech talent shortage and diversity gap through collective action.

**Our Vision**

Our vision is to become the most trusted technology solutions partner; renowned for being the best and brightest, having lasting impact with our customers and delivering exceptional returns to our stakeholders.


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