For one of our customers we are now looking for a Senior Sourcing Specialist
Job responsibilities:
• Purchase goods, materials, components or services in line with specified cost, quality and delivery targets
• Monitor and analyze market trends, supply options and indexes.
• Deliver briefs, updates and reports as and when required
• Develop ideas and strategies to optimize cost, add value, aid business performance and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement
• Negotiate contracts, improved prices and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilising negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
• Assess and evaluate suppliers and undertake performance reviews to ensure contract compliance and manage performance improvement activities
• Ensure that a professional and consistent approach is taken in relation to all supplier relationships
• Ensure compliance to company Code of Conduct policy, Anti Corruption policy, guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures guidance during supplier negotiations and contracts award process.
• Explore and evaluate alternate sources for goods and materials
• Assess tenders and quotations from potential suppliers
• Prepare purchase orders in line with final negotiations with selected suppliers and in line with organisational targets and requirements
• Undertake research on and evaluate existing and new suppliers
Your experience and qualifications:
• 10+ years procurement experience in international markets
• Strategic purchasing experience from all stages of tender processes
• Ability to purchase across a number of different categories
• Enthusiasm to grow with the company + must be adaptable
• Experience with contracts, contract frameworks and contract law – key importance in looking into value across the board
• Have an ability to think analytically – to analyse/ carry out risk assessment’s inc political risk etc
• Highly skilled at building and maintaining effective and productive relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers
• Strong negotiation, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
• Analytical, numerically astute with strong proven problem solving abilities
• Results orientated with the ability to plan and deliver against project deadlines
• Commercially and financially aware
• Keen attention to detail and accuracy
Relationship Management
• Work collaboratively and negotiate and engage with stakeholders and suppliers regarding new projects, supplies and initiatives and advise of impact of change on purchasing and production activities
• Stay current and up to date on any changes that may affect the supply and demand of needed products and materials and advise others of any impact
• Attend meetings and update others on issues or concerns, in particular when there is a risk which could prevent the organisation meeting customer demands or where there are over capacity concerns
• Support product change requests and review and communicate the impact on capacity plans
• Build, maintain and manage supplier relationships and ensure good communications
Self Management
• Comply with the Health, Safety and Environmental Policies
• Embraces personal challenge
• Confident, rounded thinking
• Is self aware
• Is agile, assertive, optimistic and open to change
• Engages interest and participation of others and has a collaborative approach to working with others
• Proactively contributes to the team
• Resilient, self motivated and able to work well under pressure
Job Specifications:
The application deadline for this position is ASAP, but we will also consider candidates for similar or other relevant positions consecutively.
Workplace: Oslo
Start: ASAP
Duration: 6 months
Contiki Ressurser tilbyr deg som ansatt:
- Faglig utvikling og fleksibilitet gjennom å jobbe i prosjekter hos store offentlige og private virksomheter
- God oppfølging av våre medarbeidere
- Gode forsikrings- og pensjonsordninger
I Contiki Ressurser vektlegger vi å være tett på våre ansatte og vi fokuserer på å være en profesjonell, trygg og hyggelig arbeidsgiver hvor du tydelig skal merke at fokus er på deg.
Har du spørsmål rundt stillingen er det bare å kontakte meg, Marina Isdal, på e-post: marina.isdal@contikiressurser.no eller på telefon 98236403. Hvis du mener at dette er jobben for deg – send en utfyllende CV og en kort beskrivelse av hvorfor du søker og vi tar kontakt med aktuelle kandidater for en samtale.