Interim Senior Procurement Specialist

2 months ago


Yeovil, United Kingdom Net Recruit Full time

**Your Company**:
A business services company is seeking an Interim Senior Procurement Specialist to join them in the Greater Yeovil area, for a
**12-month fixed term contract**. The business provides excellent quality products and services to its clients, and is growing their customer base consistently, requiring them to ensure they have a comprehensive strategy for procurement, to enable them to deliver on their promises to their clients.

Even though this is an interim position, it is of vital importance, to provide comprehensive support to the business in its procurement and commodities function. You will be able to provide immediate and insightful support and strategic consulting to help set up effective strategies from commodity procurement in the future.

**Your Role and Responsibilities**
- While in this position your duties may include but are not limited to:_
- Ensuring overall procurement spending and contracts are kept in line with company budget
- Working with the business to identify where procurement needs lie in order to come up with effective strategies for addressing these needs
- Identifying any opportunities to save cost through more effective purchasing for any business need
- Adding to the supplier base that will address business needs
- Using business systems for procurement activity, ensuring everything is logged correctly and information is kept up to date
- Undertaking negotiations to greatly and positively impact the business, these might be done in a local environment or internationally

**What you will need to Apply**:
**For this position you MUST be immediately available or available at short notice.**

Applicants should be established procurement specialist, with a proven track record of attaining savings previously within a similar organisation. Applicants will need to be competent negotiators, capable of working diplomatically and showing the ability to influence both internally and externally, whilst ensuring that rates and costs are advantageous to the business. A confident and measured approach will be required, alongside proficiency with Microsoft Applications and being a motivated individual who is capable of working to time constraints under a degree of pressure.

**What you will get in Return**:
The business is offering a salary equivalent of £40,000 for this fixed term contract, which may have the possibility for extension, although this is not a certainty. You will join a welcoming and stimulating environment and have the ability to work under and with a plethora of supportive and ambitious professionals that will facilitate your learning and enjoyment.

This role will provided excellent exposure to the UK and international procurement markets and will give the position holder the opportunity to develop their negotiation and procurement abilities within a dynamic and high-paced environment, inside a market leading business. The experience will prove to be relevant and will support career growth and future endeavours afterwards as well.

To find out more, please reach out to:
**Nick Lovell - Managing Director**

**M**: 07999 112546



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