Procurement Consultant

Role: Procurement Consultant

Salary: Up to £75K + Excellent Benefits and hybrid working

Location: Milton Keynes - Hybrid (12 days per month in office)

Want to join to lead super exciting transformational projects? Is your experience in agile Procurement project management, working collaboratively and flexibly whilst delivering complex end to end sourcing projects across the breadth of the Indirect category? This is a perfect opportunity for someone with procurement experience delivering multiple projects across multiple disciplines to utilise your consultancy experience to network across the business to identify opportunities for procurement to add value. What's on offer

Procurement Consultant:

Benefits package;

• £6K Car Allowance
• Flexible hybrid working
• Bonus
• Pension
• Private Medical
• Share Save Schemes
• 30 Days Holiday

Key to your success in this role will be the ability to operate at a highly skilled level to collaborate with the business leading high risk and high value sourcing activity within a regulated fast pace and agile environment. Ultimately leading and executing multiple complex cost, procurement and sourcing initiatives across a broad range of Indirect Procurement projects.

You will need to:

• Have strong influencing skills and adaptability to negotiate credibly with suppliers and engage with the executive management team in order to network across the business to identify opportunities for procurement to add value and present your recommendations
• Be results driven with a track record of achievement across multiple projects across multiple disciplines being adaptable and flexible in the face of adversity, fast pace, change transformation
• Demonstrate understanding of the external market and emerging best practice, highlighting challenges where spend is outside of budget or strategy together with tracking and monitoring of all challenges
• Lead cross functional teams to achieve high level performance and outcomes in a fast paced agile environment.

Experience:

• Indirects Procurement experience - evidence of delivering complex sourcing activity of multiple projects across multiple disciplines within a regulated fast pace agile environment
• Proven experience in strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, and supplier management
• Good understanding of the Financial Services regulatory framework, including identifying, manage, mitigate risks and understanding of associated UK contract law in supplier negotiations and cost optimisation
• Experience of operating in a global environment
• Gravitas, track record of influencing stakeholders at all levels in a fast paced agile environment
• Degree / or CIPS qualified.

These are brand new roles are part of a wider campaign across Group Procurement offering a fantastic opportunity to play a key part in the Procurement function.

Due to our clients requirements, applicants must hold current / valid UK RTW