Senior Buyer

**Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicity's, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.**

In this role you can showcase your creativity and commercial acumen and identify opportunities to drive value and deliver the net zero ambition. You can also build relationships and partner with the business to secure supply and manage demand, working with the supply chain to drive innovation, exploring new markets and technologies, and driving sustainability and social value.

**About you**
- Practical experience in supporting development and delivery of category or sourcing strategies and management of tendering events.
- Can confidently communicate, engage, and build strong working relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Effective project management skills.
- Can collate and organise data, analyse commercial issues and bring insight to the detail of costs and contracts.
- Can navigate their own way through a complex organisation and effectively solve problems.
- Are proactive with a positive attitude and desire to learn.
- Demonstrate role model behaviours by evidencing 'finding a better way', 'doing the right thing' and 'making it happen' values.
- A passion for enabling an affordable net zero and are motivated to make a difference.
- Partner effectively with stakeholders to become a trusted business partner.
- Provide strategic direction, communicate goals, practices, and processes of the Global Sourcing organisation with respective business partners.
- Analyse forecast trends and track category savings targets in support of Procurement and category team commitment and goals.

Supplier Relationship Management
- Identifies critical suppliers and creates appropriate engagement plans to ensure our Supply Chain risk profile and inputs to continuous improvement are proactively managed.
- Demonstrates a collaborative approach with supply base and develops integrated plans to drive appropriate value for business and customer requirements.
- Builds appropriate supplier performance measurements (KPIs) into contractual frameworks.

Systems and Analytics
- Ability to adapt to different ERP systems such as SAP, Tableau, Ariba, Spend Analytics
- Understands how to analyse large data sets and extract information for strategic decision making.

**About You**
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There will be a different emphasis on the skills required for each role but broadly we are looking for enthusiastic people who have the following attributes:

- Extensive direct procurement experience
- Understands that we are a global procurement organisation.
- Have a passion for procurement and motivated to make a difference.
- Proactive with a positive attitude and willing to teach more junior staff members.
- Can navigate their own way through a complex organisation and effectively solve problems.
- Can confidently communicate, engage, and build strong working relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Have effective project management skills.
- Can collate and organise data, analyse commercial issues and enjoy the detail of costs and contracts.

This role will include overseas travel and communications with many time zones.

To speak to a recruitment expert please contact Deborah Botha