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 qualified Procurement Services Consultant on behalf of our client a well known leading grocery retailer. 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 managementBudget 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