Summary: The role of Senior Strategic Buyer involves developing and leading procurement strategies for a client focused on innovative energy solutions. The position requires negotiating contracts, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring a high-performing supply chain. The role is available for two separate contract lengths of 7 and 12 months, based in Derby. Candidates must operate through PAYE or an umbrella model due to IR35 legislation changes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead sourcing activities from proposal to contract signature.
• Negotiating, performing cost analysis and building business cases to select high performing suppliers.
• Analysing and presenting procurement data including collecting, processing, and interpreting purchasing information to identify trends, evaluate supplier performance, and optimise costs.
• Lead contract management, including drafting, negotiating, and finalising agreements with suppliers.
• Manage the process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating commercial risks within the supply chain.

Key Skills:

• Ability to work with end-to-end sourcing RFQ, contracting and approvals.
• Proven track record of successful negotiations, coupled with strong commercial and financial skills.
• An understanding of Total Cost of Acquisition/Product Cost Life-cycles and associated levers/analytics.
• Excellent communication, influencing, relationship management skills with focus on drawing value for the company.
• Passion to drive change and make a difference combined with ability to solve complex problems, demonstrating digital awareness and analytical capability.
• Experience of reviewing and drafting contracts.
• Experience of managing supplier relationships and in contract supplier management.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Derby

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: inside IR35

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other