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.
Colt are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Indirect Procurement Business Partner to join our Corporate Services Procurement team. 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.
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, consistently with Group objectives and targets.
Manages engagements and collaborates with internal stakeholders to ensure Categories and saving plans, budget assumptions, terms and processes are consistently reviewed and aligned and internal stakeholder expectations are met.
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
Analyse and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure
Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power
Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking
Support sustainable procurement approach in line with ISO20400 guidance
Establishes and maintains regular and productive relationships with business stakeholders to achieve agreed business goals.
Maximizes the use of tools, processes, policy setting and enforcement in alignment with the Categories strategy to support the control of the spend.
Manages tender processes from the specification stage to final contract award.
Following contract award, manages and leads the contract negotiation process to conclusion.
Key performance indicators
Opex and Capex savings against budget
Relevant support to the business to deliver at the right cost, the right object, at the right time
Successful opportunity analysis
Full alignment with Business Owners
You will be working closely with the Finance Business partners, legal as well as internal stakeholders
Minimum 3 years’ experience in Procurement Sourcing management (Indirect Procurement experience preferred)
Has delivered large, Indirect Procurement / Strategic sourcing RFP globally
Familiarity with sourcing and vendor and risk management and relevant software
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. High level of understanding on procurement best practice and tools (e.g. Ariba, SAP, Fieldglass …)
Advanced Excel skills
Contract & Supplier Negotiation
Indirect Procurement Category Management
Spend Analysis & Cost Optimization/ Value Driven
Commercial and Analytical Acumen
A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Management or a relevant field
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Flexible working hours and the option to work from home.
Global Family Leave Policy.
Internal inclusion & diversity employee networks.
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