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Looking for a new role in Procurement? My client is looking for a Purchasing Analyst on a 12-month contract basis.
Contract is 3 days per week onsite in Desford. Looking for someone with experience in the following:
Description
What You Will Do
1. Lead projects associated with lean processes, global market understanding, tools, and systems.
2. Design and develop solutions, collaborate with senior stakeholders and business users to collect VOB/VOC, business requirements, and prepare implementation plans for successful deployment.
3. Contribute to strategic initiatives such as the development of standardized best practices, offerings, services, and development of associated tools & training.
4. Serves as the lead technical representative for a respective discipline, and will work directly with a wide range of procurement/enterprise representatives, including presenting recommendations to senior leaders.
What You Have
1. Business Process Improvement: Knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying, evaluating, introducing, and implementing more efficient approaches to performing business-related activities.
2. Data Analytics: Knowledge of techniques and processes for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data; ability to discover useful information, draw logical conclusions, and support decision-making.
3. Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs.
4. Negotiating: Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients.
5. Matrix Management: Understanding of the importance of leveraging external resources when required and ability to build effective working relationships.
6. Cost-Benefit Analysis: Knowledge of the principles and tools used in cost-benefit analysis; ability to analyze the purpose and scope of a producer, product, process, or project in terms of cost and benefits.
7. Category Management: Knowledge of category management within an organization's goods and services sector; ability to analyze and improve the end-to-end procurement process and maximize business profitability.
8. Procurement Function: Knowledge of responsibilities, accountabilities, and organization of procurement function; ability to perform tasks and activities of the procurement functions or department.
Skills
* Procurement
* Purchasing
* Supply chain
* Data analysis
* Implementation
* Supply chain management
Job Title:
Procurement Professional
Location:
Desford, UK
Job Type:
Contract
Trading as Aston Carter. Allegis Group Limited, Maxis 2, Western Road, Bracknell, RG12 1RT, United Kingdom.
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Purchasing and Supply Chain
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