Senior Buyer (@one Alliance)

RSK Group Limited; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading environmental and engineering firm as a Senior Buyer, where you'll play a crucial role in procurement and supply chain management. This position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with project teams, ensuring the successful delivery of goods and services while promoting ethical sourcing practices. With a focus on stakeholder engagement and performance management, you'll contribute to innovative projects that enhance sustainability and improve community well-being. If you're ready to take the next step in your procurement career and make a meaningful impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior procurement or sourcing role.
• Strong negotiation skills with a focus on stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Implement procurement strategies and manage supply chain partners.
• Ensure timely delivery and support health & safety processes.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Negotiation

Procurement

Supply Chain Management

Performance Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field

Job description

Binnies an RSK Group company is looking for a Senior Buyer to join us as part of our @one Alliance.

What will you be doing as our new Senior Buyer?

As our new Senior Buyer, you’ll implement the procurement deliverables agreed from the Portfolio strategies by challenging and negotiating long-term and short-term transactions with framework and non-framework partners.

The overall aim for this role is to be truly integrated within the project teams; you’ll ensure all deliverables are achieved via implementing and supporting the ECI engagement of our strategic partners during the early stages of a project.

You’ll have a fantastic opportunity to make a lasting and positive impact across the @one Alliance.

Key responsibilities:

1. Aggregate demand across Water Recycling and Water programme areas and ensure all relevant information to support the procurement of goods and services has been included.
2. Undertake ethical and robust methods to promote the correct selection of supply chain partners.
3. Support Delivery on Time and manage and escalate any potential risks to the business.
4. Ensure our Health & Safety processes and deliverables are implemented throughout the life cycle of each project.
5. Issuing of performance scorecards across the supply chain and providing feedback to the project teams.
6. Ensure all deliverables are received within the agreed time frames (programme, signed contracts and site documentation).
7. Assess and implement efficiencies via value-added approaches from within the Supply Chain.
8. Undertake proactive stakeholder management; work in an approachable manner to provide updates, analysis, reports, and innovation to increase knowledge share and confidence.

A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours….

With experience in a senior Procurement/ Sourcing role, you’ll demonstrate a track record of excellent stakeholder management across a wide range of demanding audiences. Possessing self-motivation and accountability in abundance, you’ll be an experienced negotiator and be able to professionally challenge whilst presenting transparent and honest facts and information.

With strong experience of driving performance with the supply chain, you’ll truly embrace collaboration and understand how a strong team ethic can deliver positive results. Working with a high degree of integrity and the customer’s best interest at heart during all activities, you’ll be able to juggle a hectic yet rewarding workload to deliver Portfolio strategies we can be proud of.

If you are looking for the next step in your Procurement career whilst making this role your own, please apply today!

About Us

We develop intelligent solutions using our award-winning integrated planning and design approach to deliver functional infrastructure and lasting environmental and social legacies. This is backed by a culture that has stayed true since our foundation over 100 years ago. We create new possibilities for humanity through our innovative approach to delivery.

Together with our clients, we are always striving to find a smarter way to deliver projects. From providing low carbon, sustainable and resilient water solutions, flood alleviation and environment services, to connecting people with insights and data. Our business exists to improve the quality of life for our local communities today and for generations to come.

Binnies is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.

At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.

Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's people-first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.

If you're passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?

Environment

We create sustainable critical infrastructure across the whole asset life cycle to meet the net zero challenge. We integrate sustainability into everything we do, utilising digital innovation to create value. We de-risk projects through collaborative engagement and holistic thinking which builds inclusive wealth for our clients, stakeholders and communities.

Water

We are engaged in every aspect of the water industry, helping clients efficiently and effectively collect, store, move and treat water and wastewater; plan and manage watersheds; harness the energy embedded in the treatment and movement of water and enhance sustainability. We incorporate leading-edge digital transformation to create more resilient and reliable solutions using data analytics to provide powerful insights.