Details:
- Salary: £55,000 - 65,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Barrow in Furness Cumbria
- Date: 5 days ago
Description:
Unify are delighted to be recruiting a Senior Ops Buyer for an established FM company based in Barrow In Furness.
Location: Barrow
Salary: Competitive D.O.E
Working hours: 09:00am - 17:00pm 35 hours per week site based (1 day WFH)
Benefits: 25 Days Holiday + BH, car allowance, Flex Benefits
To manage procurement for UK projects and facilities management scope at our client site in Barrow. The role will be part of the UK Procurement team, where you will collaborate with our Supply Chain Director, Heads of Projects Procurement and Category Leads and other Ops /Projects Buyers to ensure we deliver a robust and forward thinking supply chain solution to effectively deliver engineering excellence and a better world at work for our customers, colleagues and supply chain; and for the communities in which we work. This role will be embedded into our UK team on our Client site at Barrow and will be responsible for all supply chain and procurement activity on the contract. Day to day prioritisation of activities and workload will be by dotted line reporting to our Account Director on site. Ensure we have a good supply chain, readily available to rely on, that delivers excellence to our customer site with the right governance around the relationship to ensure performance standards are met Driving value for money by leading all supply chain project negotiations and ensuring were main competitive whilst maximising profit for Unifys Client.
Responsibilities
* Ensure that all procurement activity is undertaken in line with the overall organisational strategy; category plan; account specific procurement plan and procurement best practice.
* Develop the procurement account strategy in partnership with the account team and take ownership to lead the delivery.
* Continuously analyse market trends, supplier performance and cost structures to identify risks and opportunities for improvement and implement risk mitigation strategies.
* Collaborate with Category team to develop wider relationships with specialist supply chain to suit product / service / geographical gaps and support growth opportunities to align with business need. Ensure supply chain is appropriately accredited and provides sufficient competition and value for money for all account needs.
* Identify, select, develop and manage new supply chain to support future business through a rigorous evaluation process, ongoing performance measurement, contract review and benchmarking
* Negotiate and deliver cost savings through negotiation. Evidence value for money that can be demonstrated to our customers.
* Initiate a risk based approach to supplier tendering, selection and award, building in commercial analysis of tenders / negotiations to ensure caveats / assumptions are well managed; the correct financial model is used and any KPIS / SLAs / Programme risk is negotiated and back-to-back with supply chain.
* Identify innovation and ensure that these are presented to our accounts to increase revenue and margin opportunities.
* Provide a culture of continuous improvement delivering improvements that support the organisation’s requirements, ensuring that account stakeholders are seen as a customer and engage to gain feedback to set improvement objectives and deliver against account procurement plan.
* Promote and drive a strong safety culture into the supply chain by ensuring that work is carried out in compliance with the organisation's HSEQ management system and culture
* Be the point of escalation for supply chain matters on the account.
* Any other task reasonably requested from time to time.
Candidate Profile
* FM / Projects / construction procurement experience
* A passion for procurement and supply chain.
* A desire to think ‘outside of the box’. Not be afraid to challenge with an ability and focus to drive improvement with a ‘can-do’ attitude.
* Highest levels of integrity at all times.
* Ability to identify, assess and consider risk management throughout the procurement and contract management process Experience in stakeholder engagement
* Experience of driving value and delivering cost saving targets
* Ability to lead and work in cross-functional teams