Purchasing Specialist

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Are you ready to make a significant impact in the world of procurement? Join our client as a Procurement Buyer for Construction Products Ireland (CPI) and help shape a sustainable supply chain that prioritizes safety and efficiency. If you have a passion for category management, excellent negotiation skills, and a drive to innovate, we want to hear from you! Apply now and unleash your potential!

JOB TITLE

Procurement Buyer - CPI

JOB PURPOSE

To deliver an excellent category management service for Construction Products Ireland (CPI) enabling a safe, cost-effective and sustainable supply. To provide a professional service delivering equipment and services to support the Indirect Procurement requirements of CPI in the most efficient, cost effective and compliant manner.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Essential

• Studying towards MCIPS Chartered Procurement and Supply Professional qualification.
• Degree level qualification or equivalent by experience.
• Good numerical and analytical skills with ability to assimilate information.
• Good direct and indirect category management experience.
• Flexibility in managing a diverse range of spend categories, applying transferable procurement skills and process in order to address opportunities as well as solve problems.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Ability to create and develop business relationships.
• Awareness of contract law and its application.
• Competence in negotiating, renewing and structuring supplier contracts.
• Competence in cross-functional projects.
• Experience in collating and understanding customer requirements.
• Being able to make sense of and allocate different priorities.
• Proven negotiation experience and an ability to analyse complex pricing models when preparing for/carrying out negotiations or tender exercises.

Desirable

• Project management training
• Negotiation training
• SAP or equivalent ERP system experience

KEY RESULT AREAS

ACTION - Environment, health and safety (EHS)

• Takes personal responsibility for own safety and well-being.
• Advocates safe working practices across the supply chain so as to cause no harm in the workplace and keep everyone safe.

RESULT

• Employee engagement survey
• Number of accidents
• Frequency of safety conversations

ACTION - Category management

• Drives the identification and realization of opportunities for managed categories of spend, whilst managing risks, within the supply chain so as to deliver optimal contractual, technical and value for money solutions.

RESULT

• Effective delivery of tenders
• Value of product and service supply
• Identification and management of risks

ACTION - Market understanding

• Develops and sustains a way of understanding the key market drivers and trends so as to be fluent at comprehending the future market landscape and implications for procurement.

RESULT

• Engage and define procurement strategies with key category managers
• Fluency in key market drivers

ACTION - Project management

• Actively participates in cross functional projects delivering risk reduction, innovation and cost advantages in strategic categories of spend.

RESULT

• Delivery of project outcomes
• Colleague feedback
• Savings delivered into PPM

ACTION - Sustainable Procurement

• Ensure compliance with Group Sustainable Purchasing Program (Supplier Charter and CSR assessments).
• Support the Company's ambition to achieve carbon net zero by 2050 .
• Understand and mitigate risk of modern slavery for managed categories.

RESULT

• Collaborating with stakeholders to deliver low carbon solutions
• Achievement of sustainable procurement KPIs for managed categories
• Supplier compliance with Saint Gobain policy
• Maintenance of BES6001 'Excellent' certification
• Use of CSR evaluation tools with all key suppliers

ACTION - Business controls

• Adheres to Saint-Gobain internal business controls to ensure delivery of a consistent procurement service.

RESULT

• Compliance against Saint-Gobain ICRF

ACTION - Stakeholder management

• Identifies and cultivates relationships with key stakeholders within business units, Professional Services and Group purchasing teams to keep up-to-date with business intelligence.

RESULT

• Awareness of key stakeholders
• Quality of relationships
• Stakeholder feedback

ACTION - External benchmarks

• Identifies and connects with networks to understand best practice and latest trends in procurement.

RESULT

• Awareness in procurement best practices and latest trends

ROLE DIMENSIONS AND DECISION MAKING

• Planning Horizon annual budgeting cycle and category procurement strategy 1-3 years

Get in touch by applying directly and we will respond to all suitable applicants.

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