Procurement Manager
My Client a global Fortune 500 firm, are currently looking for a Procurement Manager. The Procurement Manager will report to the Director of Procurement for one of the business units helping internal stakeholders gain the best value from their spend portfolio. You will join the current team in delivering strategic and tactical procurement projects in Hard & Soft FM & services.
You will work closely with the business units and clients to run tendering processes, contract negotiations and ongoing vendor management.
Skills required:
- Sourcing and procurement experience, across the categories of indirects, Soft FM & Hard FM
- Building relationships with key divisions and individuals to ascertain and understand stakeholder, business and customer requirements, strategy, challenges and opportunities.
- Experience in developing best practice governance, procedures and policies which protect the business from risk
Experience Required:
- Experience working in blue-chip organisations.
- Ideally educated to degree level
- Procurement technical skills including negotiation skills, contract drafting, drafting of relevant RfPs etc and use of category management techniques in setting category plans
- The ability to draw together requirements across multiple or individual business units and gain consensus on the procurement plan from the business
- Excellent interpersonal/influencing skills.
- MCIPS/CIPS qualification is ideal
For further information please email michael.babatunde@langleysearch.com or call +44 (0) 333 366 0839 quoting MB//7863.
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