Procurement Specialists
- Employer
- Value Match Services Ltd
- Location
- NE1, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Salary
- Salary: £30,000.00 max.
- Closing date
- 15 Feb 2019
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- Specialist Area
- Purchasing, supply (main), Buying, Contracts, Logistics, Operations, Procurement, Supply chain, Category management
- Job Level
- Administrator, Analyst, Buyer, Co-ordinator / Controller, Executive / Officer, Graduate, Manager, Planner, Specialist
- Sector
- Accountancy, Advertising / Creative, Automotive, Aviation, Banking,Finance and Insurance, Catering, Charities, Construction, Consultancy, Customer Service, Education, Electronics, Engineering / Manufacturing, Event Management, Healthcare, Horticulture, Housing, Human Resources, Information Technology, Internet / New Media, Legal, Management & Executive, Manufacturing, Marketing, Media, Military, Not For Profit, Charities, Private sector, Production & Operations, Public Relations, Public Sector, Recruitment, Retail, Sales, Scientific, Secretarial & Administration, Social Services, Telecommunications, Training, Transport, Travel & Hospitality, Energy, FMCG
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Client Overview:
Our Client, a Neutral Vendor Solutions Provider with Head Offices based in the North East, provide Procurement, Contract and Performance Management support to the Public Sector.
Role Overview:
Due to continued growth our Client is looking to bring in a number of Procurement Specialists and Senior Procurement Specialists to provide key support to both our Clients suppliers and customers relating to areas such as; Construction, Education, Healthcare and Professional Services. The key objective for the role is to support projects and sourcing requirements through i.e. developing specifications, identifying and selecting suppliers, planning and running sourcing events, evaluating responses and making sourcing recommendations.
You will be required to engage with suppliers and customers to support negotiations to i.e. negotiate contracts or improve prices/terms of business, issue work orders and other documents where appropriate, track delivery of projects through milestone completions, provide analysis on costs to ensure where savings have been made and capture/track results. You will be required to act as a ‘Subject Matter Expert’ on areas relating to your sector/category assigned, assess/evaluate suppliers to ensure contract compliance and conduct market research across categories/markets to evaluate, recruit and add new suppliers to the existing Supply Chain.
This is a permanent opportunity based in Newcastle City Centre with salaries ranging from £20 - 30,000 on offer.
Experience Required:
Successful candidates must have the following experience:
- CIPS qualified or equivalent experience/qualifications
- Strong understanding of modern procurement practices i.e. Public Sector – OJEU/PCR
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, on multiple projects, and maintaining customer commitments
- Experience or understanding of running end to end procurements in either the Public or Private Sector
- Experience of sourcing and/or managing multiple suppliers for a range of services
- Experience or understanding of eSourcing/tendering solutions i.e. BravoSolution, Pro-Vide
- Experience of working in or supplying to the Public Sector would be advantageous
Company
Through our people and relationships Value Match applies our procurement expertise to enhance the value created in our communities and environment. We work with customers, candidates, suppliers, and other stakeholders to put understanding of value and the creation of value at the core of the solutions and services we offer. At Value Match we are always conscious of creating value for people, relationships, community, and environment. We are able to do this through the services we offer, the causes we support and through the Value Match Foundation, you can read about these in our community stories.
Value Match provides a complete solution to meet the procurement needs of all organisations and support suppliers to successfully bid into procurement. We have 4 service lines:
Resourcing – Matching talent with opportunity.
Consultancy – Matching expertise with purpose.
Training – Matching capability with knowledge
Bid Management – Matching suppliers with buyers
Value Match Resourcing
- We are focused on providing a people centric service that meets candidates and customers needs, ensures cultural, capability and aspirational alignment
- We are procurement professionals who are able to provide specialist procurement, programme management or analytical interim or permanent resourcing
- A flexible managed service that can be a blend of permanent, interim or consulting resources to meet customers changing needs over time
- Procurement resources with experience and knowledge of embedding social, economic and environmental consideration into procurement strategies and operations
- Website
- http://www.value-match.co.uk /
- Telephone
- 0800 917 7884
- Location
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Dee House, Dee Banks
Chester
Cheshire
CH3 5UU
GB
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