Indirect Procurement Specialist

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom SPRINGER NATURE Full time

About Springer Nature

">Springer Nature: A Global Leader in Scientific Publishing.

We are a leading academic publishing company, dedicated to providing high-quality content to researchers, educators, clinicians, and other professionals. With over 180 years of history, our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities. We see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood, and used by our communities, enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit future generations.

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 per annum.

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Procurement Lead Indirects at Springer Nature. As a key member of our procurement function, you will be responsible for delivering strategic and tactical initiatives across a broad range of Indirect category areas, including IT, HR, Marketing & Professional Services. You will negotiate key contracts and run end-to-end sourcing projects, developing a strong skill set and building capability in a fast-moving environment across various spend categories.

Key Responsibilities
  • Explore opportunities for collaboration/partnership, specification challenge, and demand management in support of SN's strategic objectives, particularly relating to software tools and professional services.
  • Support the implementation and roll-out of procurement tools/systems and deliver the benefits of spend transparency and efficiency across Indirect Procurement.
  • Experience of indirect procurement, with a successful track record of sourcing goods, services, and software solutions.
  • Spend analysis & management.
  • Strong business and commercial acumen.
  • Interpersonal, communications, stakeholder engagement, and rapport-building.
  • Critical thinking and numerical analysis.
  • Contract Performance Management.
  • Supply risk management.
  • Knowledge of SAP and Ariba would be a distinct advantage.

Benefits

You will work in our Kings Cross London offices on a hybrid working model. Enjoy a competitive salary package and develop your skills in a dynamic environment.

About the Role

This role is ideal for an aspiring Procurement professional with an affinity for deal-making who wants to develop a strong skill set and build capability in a fast-moving environment across various spend categories.

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