Senior Buyer - Bristol, United Kingdom - Mitie

Mitie
Mitie
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Bristol, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Company name:

Mitie (Corporate Functions)


Job Title:


Senior Buyer - Cleaning

Reporting to (position)
Category Lead

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Our values and behaviours
Delivering the exceptional, every day
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Our purpose: our expertise, care, technology, and insight create amazing work environments, helping our customers be exceptional every day.
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Our promise to our people: a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day.
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Our promise to our customers: a trusted partner creating exceptional environments for your customers and people, adding value every day.
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Our culture - our core values and how we behave:


  • We are one Mitie:we work as one to deliver a seamless, unrivalled service. We are all in it together, if we can help a customer or colleague in any way, we will. We are one Mitie.
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We are built on integrity and trust:integrity and trust are at the heart of all we do. We are the face of company. We treat others as we would like to be treated. We are proud to work for Mitie.
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We go the extra mile:whether its keeping things running smoothly in a safe environment, looking for new ways to do things better or fixing problems, going the extra mile for our colleagues and customers, and keeping our promises is in our DNA.
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Our diversity makes us stronger:we are very proud of our rich and diverse culture and backgrounds. Our diversity creates ideas and insights. Everyone at Mitie has a voice and is treated as an equal.
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Our customers' business, is our business:we are a partner, trusted for our expertise and for putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.


Job objectives and responsibilities

  • The Senior Buyer
  • Cleaning will be report into the Category Lead.
  • Responsibility to support in category strategy development, execution, and sourcing activity, ensuring supply chain solutions are fit for purpose, aligned to business needs, and represent lowest total cost, optimal service, and highest quality with relevant impactful supply base innovation.
  • Implement and maintain supplier management programs across all key areas of spend.
  • To be seen as a trusted commercial partner working closely with key stakeholders.

Main duties
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Sourcing, Negotiations & Contracting

  • Support and Lead on strategic procurement activities
  • Support on complex high value sourcing activities and negotiations, identifying new and more competitive sources of supply
  • Negotiate and influence suppliers to achieve best market value
  • Ability to identify cost reduction opportunities within the business
  • Liaise with suppliers to resolve issues with performance and regularly review, suggest, and develop improvements
  • Development of category strategies aligned to the business need
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Stakeholder Management

  • Manage and support a wide range of internal stakeholders
  • Supporting the development and delivery of annual targets and goals across cost, quality, reliability, and delivery
  • Work crossfunctionally with other departments and internal stakeholders
  • Managing relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders, from aligning with internal colleagues to gather, assess and challenge business requirements to appropriately challenging external stakeholders whilst maintaining relationships
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Supplier Management

  • Implementation and maintenance of a new Supplier Management Program covering all strategic and preferred suppliers, reviewing current processes and procedures, and identifying areas for improvement
  • Measure supplier performance to identify areas for improvement

Key External Relationships:


  • 3rd Party Suppliers
  • Professional and Industry Groups

Key Internal Relationships:


  • Category Lead


  • Head of Procurement

  • Business Services & Soft FM
  • Internal Audit & Financial Teams
  • Internal Stakeholder Groups
  • Business Division and Finance Business Partners
  • Mitie Shared Services

Person Specification

  • 3 to 5 years procurement experience, showing evidence of considerable selfdevelopment.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation and analytical skills (written and oral), customer facing skills, excellent organizational skills, time management skills.
  • Accountable and dedicated, with a proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problemsolving and fast paced environment.
  • Clear track record of stakeholder management with a clear focus on strategy implementation and risk mitigation.
  • Capable of conflict management and resolution.
  • CIPS qualification is preferred but not essential.
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.

Health and Safety responsibilities

  • Follow Group and company policies and procedures at all times.
  • Report any apparent deficiencies in systems of work or equipment provided that may result in failure of service delivery or risk to health and safety or the environment.
  • Use all work equipment and personal PPE properly and in accordance with training received.
  • Report any issues or tra
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