Senior Buyer

**Senior Buyer**

**University**:

- Finance Function

**Location**:
Lancaster

**Salary**:
£37,386 to £43,155

**Hours**:
Full Time

**Work type**:
Hybrid, 2 days per week on site and working from home 3 days per week

A fantastic University who are among the best in the UK, a Top 15 university in UK league tables, are looking for a Procurement Professional to join their team with strong procurement sustainability and supply chain management. This vacancy is a rare opportunity to join a dynamic team in a unique sector and to help shape and deliver their strategy.

Procurement at this University has undergone significant transformation in recent years. The team continues to expand its reach and is forward-thinking in its approach to managing the full range of Purchase to Pay and Source to Contract activity for the University's non-pay expenditure of around £100m per year. The Higher Education (HE) sector purchases an unparalleled range of goods and services, and the internal stakeholders take great pleasure in working with their buyer representatives.

The Procurement teamwork with world-leading academics and colleagues from other Professional Services areas such as Facilities and Information Systems. A wide variety of categories are managed including Laboratory Supplies & Equipment, Travel, IT, Construction, Maintenance, and Business Support Services. Procurement with this client is a well-established and mature function. They score highly on the sector-wide best practice procurement indicators and set stretch goals to continuously improve. This is a large and ambitious team within a people-focused organisation providing opportunities to progress and develop.

**Who are you?**
- Experienced in all parts of the procurement process from sourcing and tendering through to supplier management and purchase to pay.
- Experienced in a relevant category is an advantage, however, you will work with technical Subject Matter Experts to deliver compliant and commercial procurement processes.
- An experienced supplier manager that delivers savings and soft benefits in line with the University's strategy including the ambitious aim of achieving Carbon neutrality by 2035.
- Have a proven track record of implementing successful process improvement, gaining buy-in from colleagues, and training others.