Buyer-Employment, career opportunity in Uk

Job Title:  Buyer
Job Type:    Permanent
Location:    Warwick
Salary:    £35k - £40k pa
Start Date:    ASAP
Reference:    167411-V3124_183707

We have an exciting opportunity for a Buyer to join our Procurement Team. Reporting to the Procurement Process Manager, you will form part of the Procurement Support function within telent's Procurement Department. With annual revenues of over £310 million and over 1400 employees in the UK, we're a technology services company with literally decades of experience providing a broad range of network and communications services across a variety of industries. We have unique scale, boasting one of the largest engineering field forces of its kind in the UK and a track record for quality and delivery that is second-to-none.
Choose to develop your career at telent and you'll be working for a business that has 30 years' experience in providing and managing technology infrastructure and systems for service providers, enterprises and public sector organisations.
We are interested in you if you have experience of the following -

-Good working knowledge and understanding of procurement processes and best practices
-Ability to analyse problems and develop and document process driven solutions
-A high attention to detail and ability to achieve high levels of data accuracy
-Confidence and ability to handle large volumes of data from different sources
-Experience of managing quantities of data from varying sources to extract insight to support strategic procurement and business decisions
-Proficient in Oracle especially Oracle I-Procure
-Good levels in MS office products especially MS Excel and Access

Typical Deliverables

-Managing the Oracle in box of all assigned spend categories and the processing of Purchase Orders as directed by the Category Management team
-Assisting in the completion and implementation of the Oracle Procurement and P2P strategy as directed by the Procurement Process Manager
-Assisting in any Oracle I-Procure queries from the business as appropriate
-Supporting large tenders, RFQ and supplier quote activities as assigned and directed by the Category Management team
-Support any supplier negotiation activities as directed by the Category Management team
-Support any supplier evaluation and analysis as part of tenders and RFQ's
-Assisting the Category Management team to analyse spend data and make recommendations to support the creation and implementation overall category strategies
-Supporting the introduction of all Procurement processes as directed by the Procurement Management team
-Assisting with the implementation and maintenance of a supplier classification process within telent and supporting the Category Management team to ensure that all suppliers are categorised as they should be
-Assist with the creation and production of procurement reports and departmental metrics (spend, savings, others as required)
-Assisting in any telent internal or telent customer audit requirements from a Procurement perspective

Qualifications/Skills

-Degree / HND / HNC or equivalent in an appropriate discipline or relevant experience
-CIPS qualification would be ideal or working towards
-Depth and breadth of experience may be taken into account where these qualifications have not been obtained

What employee benefits does telent offer?
We're committed to ensuring that our industry-leading career opportunities are matched by industry-leading salary and benefits packages. Join us and you can expect to receive:
33 days holiday, including public holidays, with the option to buy or sell five days each year.
Company pension scheme
A range of family friendly policies including childcare vouchers
An employee-funded car leasing scheme
Occupational health support

telent is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion

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