Job Description

Company Description

We provide the world\xe2\x80\x99s most comprehensive range of integrated inspection, testing, certification and advisory services, powered by the latest technology and digital tools. Our global network of experts helps you to navigate a wide range of new standards, regulations and corporate responsibilities.

Our innovative solutions enable you to ensure the integrity, safety and reliability of your activities, equipment and operations, while helping you take more sustainable approaches to infrastructure, transportation and business operations. This helps you to protect workers and the environment, generate customer confidence, enhance brand reputation, manage risk and increase business efficiency.

• Job Title: Sales/ Procurement Business Partner
• Hours: 37.5 hours
• Location: Ellesmere Port
• Salary: Competitive

Key Accountabilities

SGS often operates day to day on a technical and operational level with B2B customers, however, also benefits from regular contact with customers procurement departments. This role focusses on procurement manager engagement, contacting existing SGS customers to connect and ensure procurement managers view SGS as a strategically important supplier partner.

A consultative approach is required, working autonomously but to specific, measurable, productivity targets, updating customers procurement systems with relevant SGS service information as well as creating and maintaining a procurement timetable for each customer.

The role would suit experienced candidates from a procurement background; however, this is not a procurement role. The role focusses on speaking to procurement managers in a business development capacity using knowledge and experience of procurement processes, systems, philosophies, and methodologies. This role is private sector and as such cannot rely on customers publishing spend activities in the public domain.

The role involves finding the right person to engage with in the customers procurement department, contacting them, then speaking to them on the telephone, by email, and MS Teams to ensure customer procurement managers have all the information needed to maximise their commercial relationship with SGS.

Qualifications

How to be a successful candidate

• Procurement qualification or
• Time served to demonstrate experience working with procurement departments
• A procurement background, or extensive experience working with procurement departments.
• This could be public sector; however commercial focussed procurement would be advantageous.
• Experience working with eProcurement systems, tender portals / platforms.
• Experience completing questionaries to support procurement applications/processes.
• Experience in a highly technical B2B environment.
• Experience working in an environment aligned to the sales/customer contact aspects of this role.
• Experience working successfully within a performance measured CRM based environment

Desirable

• Proven track record of delivering Customer Service Excellence
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
• Customer Service or Sales qualification

What you will get in return:

At SGS we offer a competitive salary along with an extensive benefits packs including:

• 10% performance related bonus (discretionary and subject to eligibility criteria),
• Private Medical Cover
• 4-8% matching company pension contributions,
• 4x Life Assurance
• 24 days Annual Leave (increasing with service) plus bank holidays
• An additional day off for you Birthday
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Retailer Discount
• Enhanced maternity/paternity and adoption pay
• Length of Service Awards
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives.

Additional Information

APPLY NOW for full consideration, you can be sure that your application will be treated confidentially and impartially, and you will always receive an update within 10 business days.

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