Amoria Bond are currently hiring for a Senior Sourcing Specialist to start ASAP for an initial 9 month contract for one of our clients based in Darlington. This is highly likely to be extended. The role is Inside IR35.
Your responsibilities' will include, but are not limited to:
- Conducting complex analysis of markets, supply chains, and supply base; applies analysis to sourcing process improvement initiatives.
- Identifying qualified suppliers and executing selection processes
- Interfacing regularly with suppliers within the area of responsibility
- Understanding how key procurement principles are used toward assuring supply
- Sourcing specialized items and executing complex sourcing strategies in accordance with agreed upon sourcing strategy / plans at the optimum cost, quality and relationship.
- Working with peers and stakeholders to support business goals, such as supply security, reduction of complexity or financial targets.
- Independently carries out sourcing activities with full consideration for the impact of those activities on the end-to-end supply chain.
- Executes sourcing tactics of varying complexity in accordance with established category/commodity strategies reflecting the optimum cost, quality, delivery.
- Participates in sourcing and category commodity strategy formulation.
- Analyzes complex sourcing and procurement initiatives and processes
- Prepares and presents to senior procurement/sourcing leadership recommendations of improvement opportunities and alternative courses of action.
- Ensures consistent application of sourcing procedures and processes.
- Supports procurement/sourcing management in activities such as price benchmarking, vendor management, industry and market analysis, process analysis, and model building.
- Leads analysis projects/initiatives providing coaching to less experienced analysts and specialists.
- Negotiates select contracts. Develops and maintains effective relationships with suppliers to the benefit of both parties.
Competencies:
Balances stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
Business insight - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the
organization’s goals.
Data Analytics - Discovers, interprets and communicates qualitative and quantitative data;
determines conclusions relying on knowledge of business or functional frameworks; simultaneously applies statistics, data validity, data visualization, and problem solving approaches to effectively extract meaningful patterns and business insights; presents conclusions and outcomes that enable data driven business decisions.
Category Strategy Development - Establishes regional category strategy using Total Value Performance (TVP) approach to define the Supply Base, Tooling and Technology Strategy to meet clients needs; Manages risk and inclusion of diverse suppliers.
Cost and Value Management - Establishes and controls product and service costs using functional tools to deliver and track product and services at competitive prices. Utilizes Total Cost Opportunity (TCO) model methodology.
Intellectual Property Management -
Negotiations Excellence
Procurement Ethics - Avoids supplier engagement that may compromise supplier sourcing,
selection, and management processes and seeks counsel to ensure compliance.
Procurement Policies, Procedures, Tools - Understands all of the relevant Procurement policies and procedures and complies with them in daily work; Masters all tools required to conduct procurement work. Knows how to access documents in the appropriate Document Management System (DMS) and/or who to ask if clarification or expansion of the information contained in each document is needed.
If this sounds like a good fit, please apply or contact me directly at [email protected]