Strategic Sourcing Lead

2 days ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom McGeorge Appointments Ltd Full time

**Overview** This Strategic Sourcing Lead job in Edinburgh with Scotland's largest charity is an outstanding opportunity for a skilled procurement professional to help build a "best in class" procurement function. Procurement acts as an essential partner to the charity’s regional property-based teams and central departments, supporting over £40m of annual spend and is involved in a huge variety of contracts for the charity. **Responsibilities** - Implement strategic procurement across the organisation including developing category management plans, undertaking strategic sourcing, working collaboratively on tender processes and subsequent contract management of key suppliers. - Provide Procurement support to internal stakeholders, including providing advice and guidance on sustainable procurement, procurement policy and processes. - Develop strong collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate information gathering on upcoming projects to enable engagement and better workload planning, together with the identification of savings opportunities plus other opportunities for efficiency and business improvement. - Develop strong collaborative working relationships with key suppliers to ensure business critical contracts are delivered as expected, with ongoing improvements in value and sustainability over the period of the contract. - Undertake a portfolio of tenders over £50,000 and ongoing contract management of strategic suppliers. - Support the Head of Procurement with various organisation-wide projects. **Skills and Experience** - Demonstrable relevant experience in procurement in activities such as: tendering and contracting, stakeholder engagement, sustainable procurement initiatives, data analysis, procurement systems and contract management. - Demonstrable track record of collaborative working. - Experience in supporting non-procurement managers and staff to comply with procurement processes. - Experience of identifying savings opportunities or process changes required and influencing stakeholders to participate in these. - Knowledge and experience of Power BI and Microsoft Dynamics would be particularly attractive. - A clean driving licence as you will be expected to visit a number of properties and locations on a not infrequent basis. The role is offered on a two-year fixed term contract basis and comes with a full suite of benefits including a generous salary, excellent pension provision, a large number of holidays and hybrid working (2 days per week to be office-based). **Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract Contract length: 24 months Pay: £40,707.00-£44,847.00 per year **Benefits**: - Additional leave - Company pension - Free parking - On-site parking - Work from home Work Location: Hybrid remote in Edinburgh EH12 9LD

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