Delivery Buyer - 36751995 (1070)
Warwick, Warwickshire
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Job Title - Delivery Buyer
The Opportunity
Overall responsibility and leadership for all contract management and Supplier Relationship management activities and local and regional sourcing within their sphere of responsibility. Including;
Category Strategy
Key Interactions
Essential:
The Opportunity
Overall responsibility and leadership for all contract management and Supplier Relationship management activities and local and regional sourcing within their sphere of responsibility. Including;
- Responsible for supporting the strategic sourcing activity in line with Strategy Category Plan, providing insight and local market intelligence, as required
- Responsible for sourcing any local and regional spend in line with the SCP
- Responsible for implementing the relevant global contracts sourced by the Strategic Buyer
- Responsible for the Contract and Supplier Relationship Management activities for the contracts created at a global and regional level
- Responsible for Regional/Local one-off purchase sourcing and order placement by exception where this cannot be carried out by the Operational Buying team (i.e. language, local market Intelligence, cultural)
- Responsible for escalation of significant contractual issues to the Strategic Buyer
Category Strategy
- Responsible for reviewing the Strategic Category Plan
- Support local Stakeholder alignment in relation to strategy creation and implementation of the categories
- Responsible for delivering sourcing of local/regional suppliers in line with SCP
- Responsible for Regional/Local one-off purchase sourcing and order placement by exception where this cannot be carried out by the Operational Buying team (i.e. language, local market Intelligence, cultural, systems)
- Responsible for Global Sourcing Approach Document (GSAD) submission and GSP process adherence for the regional and local sourcing
- Ensure alignment with Global Category Leads and Strategic Buyers to ensure strategic / tactical sourcing is in line with strategy for the regional and local sourcing
- Identify Make vs Buy and business justification when required and support analysis for regional and local sourcing
- Responsible for supply chain risk management for the regional and local sourcing
- Engage with specialist functions where required GPF, Risk, OGC
- Maintain lead for supplier interaction
- Responsible for managing dispute resolution process
- Responsible for the Change Management of the contracts and Purchase Orders
- Lead continuous improvement /benchmarking and implementation of the improvements
- Responsible for resolution of identified problems
- Responsible for on-boarding Suppliers into the BAU environment as required
- Support Financial reconciliation activities, as required
- Lead Stakeholder alignment to confirm ongoing service satisfaction
- Responsible for conducting contract audit/reviews in line with requirements
- Responsible for adhering to the Contract Management guide
- Responsible for conducting the Supplier Relationship Performance Survey (SRPS)
- Responsible for maintaining the SRPS actions plans and working with suppliers and internal stakeholders to complete the actions
- Responsible for ensuring the Supplier Relationship Management and Supplier Performance Management processes are carried out effectively for their category
- Responsible for organising and conducting the Supplier business reviews , capture the minutes and actions and work with suppliers and internal stakeholders to complete these actions
- Responsible for input to the Supplier Excellence Awards
Key Interactions
- Stakeholders / Budget holders / Requisitioner departments
- Suppliers within category - normally account / operations director
- Finance controller for project / programme or requisitioner functional area
- External Industry forums
- OGC
- Supplier Risk Team
- Regional Buying Teams
- GPF
Essential:
- An individual who is results driven, demonstrates, tenacity, drive and perseverance, with the ability to deliver
- in a complex, highly demanding environment.
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience preferred
- Commercial Awareness and Negotiation skills
- Understand category management principles
- Global business understanding and experience
- Operational Contract Management experience
- Relationship management - internal and external
- Flexibility and agility to be able to adjust to changing business needs
- Ability to travel internationally
- Experience of stakeholder operational deployment / requirements of category (eg has worked in the
- stakeholder area of the specific category)
- Category knowledge and demonstrated experience
- Previous supplier experience within category
- Relevant professional qualification