Senior Strategic Buyer - East Midlands

Chase & Holland have today been engaged by an exceptional East Midlands based business, and are excited to be partnering the business to recruit a Senior Strategic Buyer into the growing and developing team.
This role is coming about owing to growth and an increase in R&D leading to some exciting plans for the future. The business is extremely well regarded as a leader in it's chosen field, and is a long and very well estblished name.

As the Senior Strategic Buyer, you will be responsible for:
Working with existing suppliers and new suppliers to both increease the efficiency of the existing supplier based while trying to onboard new suppliers to drive positive development. 
Identifying areas for strategic improvment in the existing supply chain and suggest well founded planns for change 
Initiating and managing tendering
Developing sourcing strategies and analysing spends
Both inter and intra-datmental communication and stakeholder management
Working pro-actively to find and identify solutions
Monitoring supplier performance
Working and leading projects
Collecting data as required and/or performing data analysis
Skills & Experience you require:
Ability to demonstrate experience within a similar role
Strategic supplier identification and development
Intermediate level of Excel knowledge
Previous knowledge of ERP systems
Ability to work with large amounts of complex data
Strong negotiations skills
Experience in organising and managing competitive tenders
If you are interested in finding out about this exciting Senior Strategic Buyer opportunity, click 'apply now'.

Chase and Holland acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. We specialise in Finance, Supply Chain, HR and IT recruitment and comfortably service Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire and Lincolnshire marketplaces.

***Please note, only candidates with indefinite leave to remain and work can be considered by the company