Commercial Buyer

**Organisation profile**

By changing the way humans can interact with the oceans, we will revolutionise humanity's ability to understand and protect them.

Over 80% of our planet's oceans remain almost completely unknown, unobserved, and unexplored.

Yet marine ecosystems hold undiscovered solutions to many of the greatest problems facing humanity - including climate change, biodiversity loss and human health.

Deep is an expert team of highly experienced engineers, operations, and safety experts.

We want to drive progress in deep sea innovation and discovery in order to become stewards of the oceans and reshape our relationship with our planet.

At Deep, our mission is to imagine and invent amazing things that empower our species to sustainably explore, work and thrive underwater.

Main Duties:

- Conducting market research to identify potential suppliers and assess market trends and pricing.
- Evaluating supplier proposals and negotiating contracts
- Managing supplier relationships and ensuring that all parties adhere to contractual obligations.
- Managing procurement documentation and records.
- Collaborating with other departments to ensure alignment between procurement strategies, OKR's and milestones.
- Ensure compliance with company policies and systems related to procurement activities.
- Develop reports on procurement activities for senior management review.

Personal Specification:

- A procurement practitioner with knowledge of current operational procurement techniques
- Experience working with ERP systems for example, IFS, SAP, Oracle.
- Understanding of commercial contract terms and conditions
- Negotiation of those contract terms into contracts to protect the business.
- Highly delivery focused with a pragmatic, hands-on approach
- Able to work in cross functional teams and with stakeholders in a fast-paced operational environment