Legal & Compliance Business Partner

Colt Technology Services; Gijón; Presencial; EUR 55.000 - 75.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A global technology company is seeking an Indirect Procurement Business Partner in Gijón, Spain. This role involves acting as a strategic partner to optimize sourcing strategies and manage procurement operations effectively. Candidates should have a minimum of 3 years' experience in procurement sourcing management, strong analytical skills, and familiarity with procurement tools like Ariba and SAP. Flexible working hours and a commitment to diversity are key aspects of our culture.

Servicios

Flexible working hours

Global Family Leave Policy

Inclusion & diversity employee networks

Formación

• Minimum 3 years' experience in Procurement Sourcing management.
• Experience delivering large Indirect Procurement/Strategic sourcing RFP globally.
• Advanced Excel skills required.

Responsabilidades

• Act as a strategic partner to internal stakeholders.
• Manage sourcing operations and optimize spending.
• Lead sourcing initiatives across Indirect Procurement categories.

Conocimientos

Negotiation skills

Project management

Analytical skills

Vendor management

Financial acumen

Educación

Bachelor's or Master's in Finance, Economics, Business Management

Herramientas

Ariba

SAP

Fieldglass

Descripción del empleo

Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.

Colt are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Indirect Procurement Business Partner to join our Corporate Services Procurement team. HR, Legal, Data Protection, ESG, Marketing, Professional Services, Facilities, Real Estate, Recruitment, Temporary Staff (Contractors).

The Role will act as a strategic partner to internal stakeholders, ensuring procurement excellence and continuous improvement managing the company's supply portfolio ensuring transparency of spending and categories of spend according to business needs. You'll also be generating and implementing efficient sourcing and category management strategies and calculating costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure.

As a Procurement Business Partner within Corporate you'll be responsible for handling Corporate sourcing operations, appraising and improving our sourcing activities by analyzing the company's spending, supplying partnerships and new possibilities.

Ensures the effective procurement of services in a timely and efficient manner.

Develops and Implements the Category strategies, to control costs, time, promote competition and safeguard supply capacity, including suppliers consolidation opportunities, consistently with Group objectives and targets.

Manages engagements and collaborates with internal stakeholders to ensure Categories and saving plans, budget assumptions, terms and processes are consistently reviewed and aligned and internal stakeholder expectations are met.

Lead sourcing initiatives across Indirect Procurement corporate service categories, ensuring cost-effectiveness and compliance.

Partner with internal stakeholders to understand business needs and deliver procurement solutions.

Develop and execute Indirect Category strategies aligned with business goals

Ensure procurement processes are followed with high attention to detail and governance

Analyse and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure

Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power

Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking

Support sustainable procurement approach in line with ISO20400 guidance

Establishes and maintains regular and productive relationships with business stakeholders to achieve agreed business goals.

Maximizes the use of tools, processes, policy setting and enforcement in alignment with the Categories strategy to support the control of the spend.

Manages tender processes from the specification stage to final contract award.

Following contract award, manages and leads the contract negotiation process to conclusion.

Key performance indicators

Opex and Capex savings against budget

Relevant support to the business to deliver at the right cost, the right object, at the right time

Successful opportunity analysis

Full alignment with Business Owners

You will be working closely with the Finance Business partners, legal as well as internal stakeholders

Minimum 3 years' experience in Procurement Sourcing management (Indirect Procurement experience preferred)

Has delivered large, Indirect Procurement / Strategic sourcing RFP globally

Familiarity with sourcing and vendor and risk management and relevant software

Strong project management and leadership skills

Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships

Commercial and Analytical Acumen; Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data. High level of understanding on procurement best practice and tools (e.g. Ariba, SAP, Fieldglass …)

Advanced Excel skills

Contract & Supplier Negotiation

Indirect Procurement Category Management

Spend Analysis & Cost Optimization / Value Driven

Commercial and Analytical Acumen

A bachelor's or master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Management or a relevant field

Our global teams are full of ambitious, driven people, all working together towards one shared purpose : to put the power of the digital universe in the hands of our customers wherever, whenever and however they want.

We give our people the opportunity to inspire and lead teams, and work on projects that connect people, cities, businesses, and ideas. Signed the UN Women Empowerment Principles which guide our Gender Action Plan

Flexible working hours and the option to work from home.

Global Family Leave Policy.

Internal inclusion & diversity employee networks.

A global network

When you join Colt you become part of our global network. We are proud of our colleagues and the stories and experience they bring – take a look at 'Our People' site including our Empowered Women in Tech.