Procurement Officer - Milton Keynes - £450/day Umb - Duration 6 months
Keywords / skills: Procurement Officer, Network Rail

Overview:
Wilde Recruitment Ltd are working along side Network Rail in order to recruit a Procurement Officer to work on a 6 month contract based Milton Keynes.
As a Procurement Officer your duties and responsibilities will include:
Undertaking contracting procedures for new contracts. Overseeing departmental budget control. Developing and maintaining strategic contracts log. Arranging the production of appropriate tender documentation. Analysing the procurement MI to identify ways of improving compliance with government contracts and setting up reporting mechanisms to support this. Updating intranet guidance and preparing reports for senior management. The successful candidate will demonstrate, Sound judgement, Analytical/problem solving abilities, Commercial awareness.

Job Spec -

Develop and manage the sourcing process from business requirement to contract signature, on behalf of key customers and stakeholders, for multi-million pound medium cost and business risk opportunities, where expert levels of indirect and direct influencing techniques and political savviness are required, utilising, where relevant, commercial purpose-built models, to create and deliver significant commercial and contractual value, in support of the C&P Director’s annual savings target.
Implement approved Integrated Category Strategies (ICS) through the development and delivery of the qualified Sourcing pipeline, in collaboration with the relevant Category Manager and relevant customers and stakeholders, to release the full defined savings and benefits value committed to within the ICS, with the ambition to deliver beyond the maximum value approved, in support of the C&P Director’s cost savings target.
Apply the Sourcing Framework for sourcing led opportunities outside of ICS creation and where total annual spend ranges between £100m to £300m and within an OJEU environment, to manage all risk, governance, legislative and regulatory requirements, validated by the Procurement Risk and Assurance team.
Expert negotiator of sourcing enabled savings and benefit opportunities, in collaboration with all relevant customers and stakeholders, approved by Finance and applied to budgets, in support of the C&P Director’s savings target, with the commercial capability, tenacity and ambition to deliver value beyond the ICS commitment.
Develop and implement of sourcing specific ideas and innovation-based business cases, working in collaboration with relevant customers and stakeholders, to address existing business problems that require external sourcing specific market expertise to solve.
Facilitate the transition of Sourcing led execution to Strategic Supplier Management, to manage a seamless customer experience from business requirement through to post contract signature and position the Supplier Management team to optimise their delivery of full contractual and relationship value.
Demand manage and challenge customer and stakeholder common sourcing requirements to maximise overall Group-wide commercial value, adopting politically savvy engagement, direct and indirect influencing and selling strategies across multiple Routes and Regions, in a complex, devolved organisation.
Develop and manage sourcing aligned continuous improvement activities, demand pipeline assessments and annual customer satisfaction surveys, to deliver an enhanced customer experience, aligned to the Vision and best in class Procurement ambition
Develop the external market sourcing practices, to include commercial models and total cost of ownership assessments, within the Sourcing team, to enable the implementation of good practice and move towards a recognised best in class capability, in support of the employer of choice ambition.

Candidate:
You will be an experience Procurement Officer.
You will have Rail experience.

To discuss this vacancy please contact: James Walker Direct Dial: 0161 474 6856 or 07788668931

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