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Procurement Specialist

Job Reference AL5617

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Number of Positions:
1
Contract Type:
Permanent
Salary:
Competitive
Working Hours:
35
Location:
Manchester
Closing Date:
05/08/2019
Job Category:
Facilities
Company:
Slater and Gordon
Business Unit:
Customer Job

Package Description

Slater and Gordon offer a competitive salary with market leading benefits, a positive and inviting work environment, exposure to industry specialists and the fantastic opportunity to develop a rewarding and successful career with an award winning law firm.

 

Job Introduction

We are currently recruiting for a commercially astute procurement professional to join our procurement team based in our flagship, centrally located Manchester office. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience of managing portfolio projects to play a pivotal role in supporting the business objectives and strategy, under the guidance of our national procurement manager.

Responsibilities to include:

  • Supporting the national procurement manager in delivering projects and continuously improving the function
  • Ensuring all information is evidenced based and available for access by the procurement team to support any subsequent audits
  • Achieving business sign off for all procurement initiatives and project implementation
  • Ensuring full engagement and collaboration with key stakeholders and cross functional teams
  • Identifying new initiatives for continuous improvement throughout the process life cycle
  • Ensuring that all procurement activity is in line with business code of conduct, procurement and supplier management policy and governance, being fair, objective and transparent
  • Undertaking due diligence to ensure that preferred suppliers satisfy the firms selection criteria/benchmarks

About You:

  • Knowledge and experience of strategic procurement including category management principles
  • Understanding of complex and service commercial contracts
  • Strong commercial and negotiation skills
  • Effective influencing and persuasions skills building great working relationships with diverse stakeholders across the business
  • Hardworking with the ability to adapt to change quickly
  • Positive team player

 

What we offer in return:

In return we offer a competitive salary with market leading benefits, a positive and inviting work environment, exposure to industry specialists and the fantastic opportunity to develop a rewarding and successful career with an award winning law firm.

 

About us:

Slater and Gordon are a leading consumer law firm and our mission is to give people easier access to world class legal services. The firm provides specialist legal and complementary services in a broad range of areas and our clients are the centre of it all.

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