Buyer

Brief Description

Do you have experience, or an interest in Procurement? Do you want to join a team that is responsible for providing an efficient Procurement service to a fast paced, exciting Programme? We are looking for colleagues that have the following skills and experience.

Analytical Skills – Strong analytical capabilities with proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Procurement – to deliver solutions to meet our customer needs.

Customer Service – Interacting with our customer groups across the Programme, we need you to help be the face of our team.

System Skills – we are looking for people that will become experts on Bravo, our Procurement System, enabling us to manage the workload across all teams effectively.

Organisational Skills – we are looking for people that will be able to manage all our customer groups on the Programme.

The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) Programme is a major multi-billion-pound upgrade of the railway infrastructure across from Manchester to York.

This is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to join the TRU C&P sourcing team in providing support to the TRU Programme. You will have an engaging and positive attitude and will thrive on delivering quality outputs with great attention to detail.

About the role (External)

1.Develop and manage the transactional sourcing process from business requirement to contract signature, on behalf of customers and stakeholders, for low cost and business risk requirements, adding business value through expediting commodity requirements at pace and to the highest quality and accuracy standards.

2.Manage the reporting of sourcing spend category-specific data and metrics, working in collaboration with the Procurement Data Analyst and manage an accurate sourcing spend and savings pipeline and profile.

3.Execute the uploading of new supplier contracts onto relevant systems in a timely manner, to manage all TRU Contracts and Procurement (C&P) contractual and regulatory obligations.

4.Execute the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) and Invitation to Tender (ITT) phases of a tender process in collaboration with the relevant Sourcing leads, to shape and develop quality tender documents and enhance customer experience, working collaboratively with the relevant Sourcing leads.

5.Identify and implement Sourcing-specific continuous improvement initiatives.

6.Support the team with the ensuring compliance with the governance and assurance processes including one up reporting and supporting TRU C&P panel.

7.Undertake full range of procurement activities including obtaining supplier prices, tendering negotiation and purchase order placement.

8.Provision of dedicated support to senior staff in commodity area.