Role Purpose

This role will be a key member of the Group Purchasing Department with responsibility for specific areas of activity to support the Managed House operations and central facilities. In addition the role will work to identify areas of opportunity for purchasing across the Group.

Key Accountabilities

• To maximise the value of purchasing benefits within the Group and to work cross functionally with a number of departments across the Group
• To have day to day contact with all of the relevant suppliers and will be responsible for managing these supplier relationships to the required standard
• To be responsible for identifying areas of Purchasing opportunity and negotiation to the point of recommendation to the Senior Commodity Manager on pricing and contractual proposals
• Maintain a detailed awareness of the marketplace identifying innovation opportunities, new potential suppliers etc
• To complete supplier reviews, monitoring, reporting and ensuring compliance with all contractual commitments contained within agreed supply contracts for the suppliers in these categories
• To control and manage supplier rebates where appropriate, briefing affected departments and will be responsible to ensure that rebates/o’riders are correctly invoiced to suppliers on a timely basis and are paid by suppliers promptly in line with contractual terms
• Maintaining a contracts database in conjunction with the Purchasing Assistant for the suppliers for which they are responsible and also for ensuring the accuracy of pricing by briefing pricing details and changes to the appropriate stakeholders in an accurate & in a timely manor.

Role Dimensions

Financial (budgetary control etc.)

Non-financial (staff management etc)

§       Spend TBC

§       This role has no direct reports

Key Relationships

• Suppliers
• Finance
• All internal customers

Typical Outputs (reporting requirements etc)

Contracts

Proposals and Sign-offs

Reporting

Person Specification

Competency Requirements

Technical / Professional Expertise Required

·         Communicating & Influencing – CS2                            

·         Judgement & Decision Making –CS2                          

·         Leadership & Motivation – CS1                                  

·         Achievement, Drive & Ownership  - CS2                    

·         Commercial Acumen  - CS2                                      

·         Flexibility – CS2

·         Technical Ability   - CS2                                  

·         Planning & Organising – CS2

·         Teamwork – CS1/2                                                         

·         Customer Focus  - CS2                                               

·         Stakeholder Management - CS2                            

• 3 years experience of managing multiple supplier relationships, gained in either a purchasing or marketing function (similar sector)
• Experience in managing across multiple product categories
• Demonstrable ability/success in price/contract negotiation to deliver added value
• Graduate calibre candidate
• Analytical skills
• Effective decision making
• Commercial awareness
• Customer focussed
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent planning and project management skills
• CIPS qualified/part qualified
• Clean current driving licence
• IT literate – Excel, Business Objects, Word, Power Point, Office
• Team player