Operational Buyer

OCS; Greater London; Teletrabalho; GBP 50 000 - 70 000; Tempo integral

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Resumo da oferta

OCS UK & Ireland is seeking a procurement specialist embedded on client sites with homebased flexibility and national travel. You will drive supply chain governance and lead procurement activity across FM projects, including PPM services, M&E, fabric, and project consultants.

You will identify, select, develop and manage new supply chain partners, negotiate cost savings, and ensure tendering risks and KPIs are properly managed in collaboration with the account team.

Qualificações

• Procurement experience and strategy development for facilities management contracts.
• Strong negotiation and supplier performance management abilities.
• Experience delivering cost savings and value for money.

Responsabilidades

• Ensure a reliable supply chain and governance to meet performance standards for customer sites.
• Undertake procurement in line with organisational strategy and category plans.
• Develop and lead procurement account strategy with the account team.

Conhecimentos

Procurement

Supply chain

Negotiation

Cost savings

Risk management

Contract management

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About The Role:

Working Hours:

Monday - Friday, 08:00 - 17:00

Location:

Homebased with National Travel

This role will be embedded into our OCS team on our Client site and will be responsible for all supply chain and procurement activity on the contract on both the strategy for FM and projects (Including but not limited to PPM service delivery, M&E, Fabric, Project Consultants).

• Ensure we have a good supply chain, readily available to rely on, that delivers excellence to our customer sites with the right governance around the relationship to ensure performance standards are met.
• Ensure that all procurement activity is undertaken in line with the overall organisational strategy; category plan; account specific procurement plan and procurement best practice.
• Develop the procurement account strategy in partnership with the account team and take ownership to lead the delivery.
• Identify, select, develop and manage new supply chain to support future business through a rigorous evaluation process, ongoing performance measurement, contract review and benchmarking
• Negotiate and deliver cost savings through negotiation. Evidence value for money that can be demonstrated to our customers.
• Initiate a risk based approach to supplier tendering, selection and award, building in commercial analysis of tenders / negotiations to ensure caveats / assumptions are well managed; the correct financial model is used, and any KPIS / SLAs / Programme risk is negotiated and back-to-back with supply chain.

About The Company:

About the Company:

OCS UK & Ireland is a leading facilities management company with 50,000+ colleagues and a turnover in excess of £2bn.We deliver innovative, award-winning services within facilities management, hard services, cleaning, security and catering.

Our mission is to make people and places the best they can be for our colleagues, customers and the communities we serve. Our commitment to doing business the right way is rooted in our TRUE values - Trust, Respect, Unity, and Empowerment.

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We are an equal opportunities employer and rely on a diverse workforce with a broad range of knowledge, skills, and backgrounds to deliver our goals. We offer an inclusive and welcoming environment and actively encourage applications from all individuals regardless of race, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or age.

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