[25496] - Procurement Services Consultant

Procurement Services Consultant

Salary:  Up to £66, 000 per annum,

Full time permanent role (hybrid working pattern)  

Based Surbiton area – free parking!

We are currently recruiting for an accomplished and highly experienced MCIPS or CIPS  qualified Procurement Services Consultant on behalf of our client a well-known, exciting  FMCG global brand.  This role is a hybrid role based at the company’s new “state of the art “Head Office based in the Surbiton area. The ideal candidate will possess a solid background within tender and contract management and possess superb negotiation skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• To engage with different departments in the business analysing and highlighting the needs of each department and conducting market research.
• Onboarding new procurement categories.
• Demonstrate innovative thinking and proactivity where looking at new services implementation or strategic solutions.
• Managing the tender process from market research, to creating tender packs, completing scorecards and presenting final recommendations.
• Conducting strategic sourcing initiatives, including negotiations, supplier and industry analysis, benchmarks, cost structure analysis ensuring process compliance.
• Supplier negotiation and drafting contracts.
• Contract management.
• Stakeholder management.
• Multi-tasking and juggling a varied workload within a fast-paced environment without compromising on quality of work and attention to detail.
• Preparing summaries, overviews and project status documents for senior management.
  Budget tracking and control.
• Managing and maintaining supplier relationships for internal procurement for the organisation for products and services within the process procurement department.

Person Specification:

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• MCIPS qualification (Member of Chartered Institute of Procurement Supply) or CIPS.
• Level 4 as a minimum requirement.
• A solid background within procurement with excellent and understanding and knowledge of procurement processes and procedures.
• Experience working with suppliers, contract management and tendering.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Effective negotiator and confident communicator and presenter (able to present and propose projects/ideas to Board level employees).
• Excellent working knowledge of Excel.
• Ability to prioritise projects and communicate effectively accordingly.
• The ability to manage multiple complex projects concurrently within tight deadlines.
• Ability to deal with a large amount data (numeric and/or literal) and being able to extract key information.
• Live within a commutable distance from Surbiton.

Benefits include:
30-35 days holiday including Bank Holidays

Health Insurance

10% in-store discount
Ongoing training
Enhanced family leave
Pension scheme
Free parking plus further generous benefits and perks