Supplier Management Executive

Interested in Pricing, Supply Chain, Marketing or Competitor Analysis? We have the ideal role for you!

Supplier Management Executive

Skelmersdale (WN8 9RD)

Competitive salary plus benefits

Great hours Monday to Friday, full time, no evening or weekend working

A career in Supplier Management awaits you. This is a unique role which embraces aspects of Supply Chain Management, Category Management, Marketing, Buying, Pricing, Procurement and Competitor Analysis. If you’re interested in Account Management, Buying or Category Management this is an excellent opportunity to learn in a diverse and interesting role that covers a wide variety of essential tasks. In fact, you will not find a better opportunity! Here are some quick questions to help you:

• Are you interested or experienced in either pricing, buying, supply chain management, procurement, or a similar role?
• Do you want a career rather than a job?
• Do you have great administrative and analytical skills?
• Do you drive and have your own transport to get to our Skelmersdale offices?
• Are you looking for a rewarding job in an established company where your work is valued?

If so, let us recognise how important you are and support you in a career that you will enjoy and where you will develop and learn. This is your chance to shine at the UKs leading hygiene services company – let us tell you why you will love it here…

Firstly, you will be supporting key business areas – Compliance and Contractual Services, assisting our supplier teams with the management and input of essential data to allow Direct365 to make key decisions and provide a seamless customer journey. You’ll experience elements of supply chain, buying, competitor analysis on pricing of products and services– it’s a role which will give you responsibility and a well-rounded experience in all these areas.

We’ll support you and help you develop in your career here, enhancing skills you have and learning new ones. It’s a vibrant, fun place to work, with a real family feeling, one of many reasons we think you will love it here. The hours are great too – you’ll be working Monday to Friday (guaranteed full-time hours), with free parking that will save you a fortune, as well as further benefits.

Your role as Supplier Management Executive at Direct365 will include:

• Collating competitor data on our main services, spotting key trends, and analysing pricing to ensure we stay competitive in the marketplace.
• Managing our Compliance category – you’ll work with the supplier base to ensue all SLAs are achieved and KPIs are met.
• Daily supplier performance monitoring
• Running weekly meetings with suppliers to update on the status of work and highlighting any issues.
• Assisting with analysis on contractual suppliers, ensuring the best services and prices to our customer base.
• Supporting on large scale mobilisation projects
• Working on data improvement projects across the business.

   

  The ideal candidate for our Supplier Management Executive at Direct365 will have:

   

• A genuine interest in a career in Category Management
• The ambition to drive their career and our company forward
• A high attention to detail, with the ability to spot trends
• Excellent communication skills – you’ll be speaking regularly with suppliers and stakeholders
• Great computer and administrative skills, with working knowledge of Microsoft packages including Excel
• A ‘can-do’ attitude, someone who really cares and takes pride in their work

In return for your commitment and expertise as a Supplier Management Executive, you’ll benefit from:

• A competitive salary in a permanent full-time position
• No weekend or evening working – great hours Monday to Friday (37.5 hours a week)
• Amazing employee discounts with major supermarkets and retailers with ‘phs Perks’
• Training to expand your skills. We offer accredited ILM training through external and in-house training, and apprenticeship opportunities
• 23 days holiday plus bank holidays (31 days in total) plus a Buy / Sell holiday scheme
• Free Parking onsite so no parking costs
• Other benefits such as improved parental and paternity leave, a 24-hour wellbeing helpline, cycle to work scheme, pension scheme, life assurance and more…

We want to hear from you. Apply Now.

About us

At Direct365, our vision is to be the UK’s number one provider of essential workplace products and services for small businesses. We value helpfulness, reliability and innovation within our employee base, and believe in giving everyone the freedom to do what they do best. Our aim is to combine our buying power with friendly expert advice for everyone’s peace of mind that the job’s well done.

Direct365 is part of the phs Group, the UKs leading Hygiene Services provider. phs Group was founded in 1963 and we are the leading provider for Hygiene Services in the UK, Spain and Ireland with over 120,000 customers across 300,000 locations incorporating numerous businesses during its 61 years of business.