Procurement Strategist
5 days ago
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Procurement Strategist to join our team at Scott Bader. As a key member of our procurement function, you will play a critical role in driving business growth and profitability through strategic sourcing and procurement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities- Develop and Implement Strategic Sourcing Strategies: Develop and implement global category strategies in line with the evolving strategic plans of the business, ensuring alignment of procurement/category strategies and objectives.
- Lead Procurement Engagement with Key Stakeholders: Lead the local procurement engagement with key business stakeholders and associated processes to ensure alignment of procurement/category strategies and objectives.
- Negotiate and Develop Supply Agreements: Negotiate and develop formal supply agreements for critical raw materials to deliver supply security at favourable commercial terms for existing and new supply chains.
- Identify Supply-Side Risks and Saving Opportunities: Undertake spend and budget analysis and employ SRM/procurement tools to identify supply-side risks and saving opportunities, and agree action plans to enable implementation/delivery.
- Lead Site Formal EHS/QA Supplier Assessments and Audits: Lead site formal EHS/QA supplier assessments and audits in accordance with the business's evolving needs.
- Strategic and Change Management Skills: Hold well-developed strategic and change management skills with experience of the utilisation of ERP systems, and specifically mainframe MRP & data analysis systems.
- Procurement Experience: Be a well-rounded procurement professional with a real drive to deliver on strategic advancements, MCIPS would be a real plus.
- Category Planning and Strategy Development: Have previous experience of defining, writing, and implementing category plans and strategies.
- Chemical Manufacturing Experience: Have previous experience of working within a chemical manufacturing business, although this is not essential.
- Competitive Salary and Bonus Scheme: A competitive salary alongside inclusion into our company bonus scheme, which reinforces the Scott Bader principle of working together for a common goal and sharing in our successes.
- Enhanced Employer Pension Contribution: Enhanced employer pension contribution, whereby Scott Bader will contribute a maximum of 2x your contribution, up to a maximum of 10%.
- Private Medical Insurance and Employee Benefits: Private medical insurance alongside a host of further discounts and employee benefit schemes.
- Annual Leave and Volunteering Opportunities: 25 days annual leave entitlement plus Bank Holidays, and the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days' annual leave, as well as one full day per year to complete volunteering work of your choice, which is fully paid.
- Employee Ownership and Social Responsibility: As an employee-owned company, we are committed to expanding our global reach while continuing to build on our reputation for innovation, outstanding quality, and technical expertise, and we appreciate different and fresh ways of thinking, encouraging innovation where colleagues feel they can express their views freely, and create a working atmosphere in which everyone is able to deliver a high-quality service.
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