Overview

Role Purpose:
6 Month FTC
Responsible for supporting the commercial aspects our technological transformation project, and overall supplier performance. Pro-actively engage with stakeholders across Greencore to encourage best practice and owns the commercial aspects of projects that involve suppliers
Key Accountabilities:
  • Create additional value for money for goods and services, balancing price, service and quality and meeting the business needs through undertaking negotiations, selection of suppliers and contracting of business
  • Build great relationships with stakeholders and provide professional procurement expertise and commercial focus. Be able to challenge the way Greencore do things and introduce best procurement practice. Be an ambassador for indirects procurement to change the business behaviours and culture
  • Take a strategic category view to manage areas of spend, identify savings opportunities, and drive consistency across Greencore. This includes analysing spend bases, consolidating the supply base across Greencore where appropriate, driving consistent ways of working across Greencore, sourcing from fit for purpose suppliers, managing supplier performance, resolving issues, negotiating the optimum price, service and quality parameters, and agreeing contracts and service levels
  • Project manage the delivery of initiatives to address a business need or to create additional value. This includes aligning multiple stakeholders, identifying the business needs and risks, project planning, running tenders, negotiation, contracting, communication, approval, implementation planning and then subsequent supplier management and issue resolution to ensure the supplier meets the contract
  • Negotiating and implementing contracts when needed, ensuring each contract is appropriately tailored to the requirements of the business, including creating business appropriate service levels and addressing any specific risks and liabilities
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
  • Substantial IT procurement experience essential
  • Excellent commercial insight combined with negotiation skills
  • Ability to build good relationships with stakeholders with excellent communication and influencing skills
  • Ability to analyse data, identify and evaluate options and implement recommendations
  • Able to assess and adapt a contract to mitigate liabilities in line with business risk and create service levels to meet business needs
  • Ability to operate in a complex multi-site environment and bring everyone on board to a single solution.
  • Experience in prioritisation and ability to work on multiple projects at once


Permanent – Full-Time
Salary: Negotiable
Location: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S80 2RS

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