Overview
Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.
Why we need this role
Colt are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Indirect Procurement Business Partner to join our Corporate Services Procurement team. This role is pivotal in driving value across indirect spend categories, including but not limited to; HR, Legal, Data Protection, ESG, Marketing, Professional Services, Facilities, Real Estate, Recruitment, Temporary Staff (Contractors).
The Role will act as a strategic partner to internal stakeholders, ensuring procurement excellence and continuous improvement managing the company’s supply portfolio ensuring transparency of spending and categories of spend according to business needs. You'll also be generating and implementing efficient sourcing and category management strategies and calculating costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure.
As a Procurement Business Partner within Corporate you'll be responsible for handling Corporate sourcing operations, appraising and improving our sourcing activities by analyzing the company’s spending, supplying partnerships and new possibilities.
What we're looking for
* Minimum 3 years’ experience in Procurement Sourcing management (Indirect Procurement experience preferred).
* Strong internal engagement, interpersonal and influencing skills. Adaptability. Highly driven and self-directed, problem solver.
* Has delivered large, indirect Procurement / Strategic sourcing RFPs globally.
* Proven work experience as a sourcing officer.
* Familiarity with sourcing and vendor and risk management and relevant software.
* Experience in Indirect Category Management.
* Strong project management and leadership skills.
* Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships.
* Commercial and analytical acumen; comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data. Detail-oriented decision making.
* Solid judgement with ability to make good decisions.
* High level of understanding on procurement best practice and tools (e.g. Ariba, SAP, Fieldglass).
* Advanced Excel skills.
* Education: A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Management or a relevant field.
Responsibilities
* Ensures the effective procurement of services in a timely and efficient manner.
* Develops and implements the category strategies to control costs, time, promote competition and safeguard supply capacity, including suppliers consolidation opportunities.
* Manages engagements and collaborates with internal stakeholders to ensure categories and saving plans, budget assumptions, terms and processes are consistently reviewed and aligned.
* Lead sourcing initiatives across indirect procurement corporate service categories, ensuring cost-effectiveness and compliance.
* Partner with internal stakeholders to understand business needs and deliver procurement solutions.
* Develop and execute indirect category strategies aligned with business goals.
* Ensure procurement processes are followed with high attention to detail and governance.
* Negotiate with external vendors to secure advantageous terms and engineer value-driven negotiation plans.
* Analyse and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure; research and anticipate shifts in negotiating power.
* Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking.
* Estimate risks and apply risk minimizing techniques.
* Discover and partner with trustworthy, inclusive and diverse vendors and suppliers.
* Support sustainable procurement approach in line with ISO20400 guidance.
* Establish and maintain regular and productive relationships with business stakeholders to achieve agreed business goals.
* Maximize the use of tools, processes, policy setting and enforcement in alignment with the category strategy to control spend.
* Manage tender processes from the specification stage to final contract award, and lead contract negotiations to conclusion post-award.
* Ensure all documentation relevant to sourcing activities is complete and available in Ariba (RFPs, scoring tools and results, Order Forms, SoWs).
What we offer
* Looking to make a mark? At Colt, you’ll make a difference. Because around here, we empower people. We don’t tell you what to do.
* We employ people we trust, who come together across the globe to create intelligent solutions.
* Global teams are full of ambitious, driven people, all working towards one shared purpose: to put the power of the digital universe in the hands of our customers wherever, whenever and however they want.
* Opportunities to inspire and lead teams, and work on projects that connect people, cities, businesses, and ideas.
Diversity and inclusion
Inclusion and valuing diversity of thought and experience are at the heart of our culture here at Colt. From day one, you’ll be encouraged to be yourself because we believe that’s what helps our people to thrive. We welcome people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability, neurodiversity, age, marital status, pregnancy status, or place of birth.
Most Recently We Have Signed the UN Women Empowerment Principles which guide our Gender Action Plan. Trained 60 (and growing) Colties to be Mental Health First Aiders. Please speak with a member of our recruitment team if you require adjustments to our recruitment process to support you. For more information about our Inclusion and Diversity agenda, visit our DEI pages.
Benefits
* Flexible working hours and the option to work from home.
* Extensive induction program with experienced mentors and buddies.
* Opportunities for further development and educational opportunities.
* Global Family Leave Policy.
* Employee Assistance Program.
* Internal inclusion and diversity employee networks.
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