Senior Buyer

**An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Buyer.** We would love to hear from you if you have previous experience within a similar role with a background in buying Sub-contractor services, Labour and Professional services.

**We are a leading technology company and specialise in the design, build, support and management of the UK’s critical digital infrastructure.** With current annual revenues in excess of £400M and 2,700 employees. We operate within various industry sectors including Rail, Traffic, Public Safety, Defence, Service Providers, Enterprise and Public Sector.

**Excellent employee benefits: - **we are committed to ensuring we offer industry leading career opportunities, salary, and benefits packages

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**Role Profile**:
Reporting into the Senior Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for the creation and implementation of the designated commercial strategies for Labour and related spend. You will work within the function to support the delivery of a structured sourcing and fulfilment strategy, targeted to deliver significant efficiencies and cost savings, demonstrating value.

**Typical Deliverables**:

- You will be supporting RFx activities for both Bid tenders and Projects including creation and issue of NDA’s
- Support for maintenance of approved supplier list (ASL)
- Ensuring category codes are fit for purpose
- You will be responsible for creation of iProcurement strategy
- Responsible for Supplier on-boarding and evaluation
- Support investigations of supplier performance failures and work with SQA team to find resolutions
- Support supplier relationship management and develop best-fit business review schedule, in line with supplier classification

**Business Operations Skills - Experience**:

- Must have experience in a procurement or commercial environment
- Experience of Microsoft Office 365 products especially MS Excel
- Strong interpersonal, organisational and communication skills
- Understanding of procurement principles, practices and the value that Procurement can bring
- A high attention to detail and ability to achieve high levels of data accuracy

**Business Operations Skills - Qualifications**:

- Degree / HND / HNC or equivalent in an appropriate discipline
- Or Professional qualification MCIPS, preferably Chartered status
- Depth and breadth of experience may be considered where these qualifications have not been obtained

**You’ll receive formal training.** - and on-the-job training where appropriate - to ensure you’re up-skilled as technology develops along with E-learning schemes to help or refresh skills on-line

**You’ll be treated as an individual. **We’re not a vast corporation, which means every individual counts. With us, you’ll be valued and supported, involved and empowered from day one.

**Join us and you can expect to receive**:

- 33 days holiday, including public holidays, plus the option to buy or sell five days each year
- Company pension scheme
- A range of family friendly policies
- Occupational health support
- Discounts on Cinema, Restaurants and Shopping with Telent Reward scheme

**Telent is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion.**

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