Job Description

Salary: Up to 41k
Location: Choice of Arvato site; Birmingham, Derby, Corby
Hours: Monday to Friday 8.30-17.00- 40 hour week
As a UK Procurement Specialist, you'll responsible for the procurement of Arvato's Facilities & Engineering Departments. Your typical day-to-day duties will include meeting with Suppliers, working on tenders RFI's and RFQ's, implementing Supplier Agreements, negotiating Contracts, and working with internal stakeholders as a dotted line into Head of Facilities & Engineering.
You will be responsible for creating the category strategy and aligning with the group approach. You will represent procurement at a UK and European level within your categories to build partnerships, introduce new Suppliers and implement new ways of working.
Your Tasks

• Work closely with the Facilities & Engineering Team and take ownership and accountability of category strategy.
• Preparation and execution of tenders, RFI's and RFQ's for facilities &
• engineering
• Consolidate existing Suppliers and source new
• Source new products and materials
• Negotiate and implement Supplier Agreements
• Supplier commercial negotiations
• Work with key Suppliers to improve service levels and potential group
• growth
• Build relationships with key internal stakeholders to ensure effective
• implementation of change
• Be accountable for achieving agreed targets and objectives
• Drive process standardisation and simplification
• Manage Supplier OTIF, troubleshoot associated service issues, and lead
• escalations
• Promote sustainability standards throughout the Arvato and Supplier supply chains

Your Profile

• Experience of facilities management & engineering MRO procurement within an FMCG environment, ideally warehousing and logistics
• Must be able to demonstrate hands on experience with the end-to-end RFI, RFQ and tender delivery
• Experience within business process design advantageous
• Able to evidence success within Supplier consolidation programs
• Strong analytical and organisational skills
• Able to create strategic and tactical plans
• Good influencer and able to work well with stakeholders
• A working knowledge of Project Management
• Able to balance priorities and work to tight deadlines
• Good communicator - clear and concise, written and verbal
• Experience with performance management and reporting
• Problem solving
• Conflict resolution skills
• Good IT skills and a working knowledge of SAP is desirable

We Offer

• 25 days annual leave plus 8 UK bank holidays with the option to purchase up to an additional 5 days
• Pension contribution
• A life assurance policy that pays out 4 x Salary
• Employee Assistance Programme that provides you with confidential support, information, and advice to help you
• Employee Discount Scheme through Treats
• Free car parking

Skills Required