Category Buyer

Gleesons has partnered with a national business looking for a Category Buyer This Opportunity would be best fitted to a professional looking to further grow their career awhile adding there knowledge to business policy.

Job Title: Category Buyer

Locations: Stoke on Trent

Salary: £28 - 45,000

Duties:

• Maintain and support the procurement system ensuring all contracts are current, signed, and accompanied by relevant supplier policies and key documentation.
• Implement effective sourcing practices in accordance with policy guidelines.
• Achieve cost reduction objectives.
• Manage supplier performance within each spending category, in coordination with the Category Manager, ensuring supplier KPIs are met.
• Assist in enforcing procurement policy for expenditures.
• Support the Category Manager and Procurement Lead with higher spending categories and contribute to the development and continuation of the overall procurement strategy.
• Plan priorities and activities based on business impact, while also accommodating reactive business requirements. Assist Procurement Lead and Category Managers with meeting organisation, document preparation, system uploads, and contract improvements.
• Make independent decisions regarding work priorities and relationships and organise internal procurement processes. Advise and influence employees on best practices.
• Engage daily with business stakeholders, with frequent interaction with Legal and Finance functions and occasional interaction with the Executive Team. Provide guidance to individual employees and maintain significant supplier contact.
• Communicate through face-to-face meetings, phone calls, Teams meetings, emails, and occasional presentations. Interactions range from information gathering to advising managers on procurement issues and making recommendations.
• Advise on procurement issues and influence managers and employees at the business to agree on procurement steps. Building effective relationships with stakeholders is key to raising the procurement department's profile.
• Address problems autonomously while seeking line manager guidance as needed.
• Demonstrate creativity in seeking continuous improvement opportunities.

Ideal Candidate:

• Has working knowledge and commercial awareness of purchasing and procurement principles.
• Buyer Experience ( IT / General / Indirect )
• Experience in Negotiation / Contracts
• Experience in Category Plans

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