Senior Operational Buyer

About The Role:

The role will be part of the OCS Procurement team, where you will collaborate with our Supply Chain Director, Heads of Projects Procurement and Category Leads and other Ops / Projects Buyers to ensure we deliver a robust and forward thinking supply chain solution to effectively deliver engineering excellence and a better world at work for our customers, colleagues and supply chain;

and for the communities in which we work. This role will be embedded into our OCS team on our Client site in Barrow-in-Furness and will be responsible for all supply chain and procurement activity on the contract, this is a hybrid role with a minimum 2 days onsite.

What you'll do:

• Ensure we have a good supply chain, readily available to rely on, that delivers excellence to our customer sites with the right governance around the relationship to ensure performance standards are met.
• Ensure that all procurement activity is undertaken in line with the overall organisational strategy; category plan; account specific procurement plan and procurement best practice.
• Develop the procurement account strategy in partnership with the account team and take ownership to lead the delivery. Identify, select, develop and manage new supply chain to support future business through a rigorous evaluation process, ongoing performance measurement, contract review and benchmarking
• Negotiate and deliver cost savings through negotiation. Evidence value for money that can be demonstrated to our customers.
• Initiate a risk based approach to supplier tendering, selection and award, building in commercial analysis of tenders / negotiations to ensure caveats / assumptions are well managed; the correct financial model is used and any KPIS / SLAs / Programme risk is negotiated and back-to-back with supply chain.
• Identify innovation and ensure that these are presented to our accounts to increase revenue and margin opportunities.
• Provide a culture of continuous improvement delivering improvements that support the organisation’s requirements, ensuring that account stakeholders are seen as a customer and engage to gain feedback to set improvement objectives and deliver against account procurement plan.
• Promote and drive a strong safety culture into the supply chain by ensuring that work is carried out in compliance with the organisation's HSEQ management system and culture
• Be the point of escalation for supply chain matters on the account.
• Any other task reasonably requested from time to time.
• Continuously analyse market trends, supplier performance and cost structures to identify risks and opportunities for improvement and implement risk mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with Category team to develop wider relationships with specialist supply chain to suit product / service / geographical gaps and support growth opportunities to align with business need. Ensure supply chain is appropriately accredited and provides sufficient competition and value for money for all account needs.

Who you'll be:

• Knowledge and experience of Procurement Processes, Systems and Supply Chain Methodology
• Experience in stakeholder engagement
• Able to manage internal customer relationships
• Expert negotiations skills
• Experience in delivering and developing sustainable procurement objectives
• Commercial awareness
• Ability to deliver service excellence to internal and external customers
• Strong presentation, and influencing skills
• Experience of driving value and delivering cost saving targets
• Strong analytical skills.
• MCIPS preferred or working towards.
• Excellent FM procurement experience.

About The Company:

OCS UK & Ireland is a leading facilities management company with 50,000+ colleagues and a turnover in excess of £2bn. We deliver innovative, award-winning services within…