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IT Procurement Officer

Leeds

Full-timeProcurement

Salary: £60,000

Overview

Axi Recruitment is working with an established energy business based in Leeds for an experienced IT Procurement Officer to join their team.

Reporting to the Procurement Manager, the successful candidate will have proven IT/indirect procurement experience and will work to ensure maximum value from third party contracts, whilst minimising risk and operating to a policy and process framework.

Job Details

• Work with the business to source and procure a wide range of required goods and services, with primary focus being IT and Indirect services, ensuring optimal value for money within defined service and quality criteria.
• Ensure procurement processes are followed to seek and evaluate competitive tenders and proposals for the supply of goods and service.
• Identify opportunities for synergies across the portfolio and to add improvements through cost savings or process change.
• Manage supplier relationships, coordinating multiple stakeholder interfaces to ensure a consistent and collaborative approach.
• Identify and implement supplier improvement actions and operate 360 feedback processes.
• Seek to resolve contractual and supplier disputes as and when they occur.
• Develop and maintain strong and positive working relationships with internal stakeholders, ensuring that requirements are understood and addressed whilst seeking to promote the Procurement function.
• Operate and maintain required systems to support and improve the Procurement function.
• Work closely with the HSEQ teams to ensure that the supply chain is safe and delivers quality goods and services.

Qualifications

• Qualified to CIPS Level 4 or above.

Experience

• Extensive IT procurement experience, ideally in Power Generation, Petrochemicals or Heavy Engineering industries.
• Experience of SAP and e-tendering systems.
• Demonstrable experience of managing whole procurement lifecycle.
• Understanding of general contract law, including cybersecurity and all specific software/data protections.
• Experience of drafting, negotiating and managing a variety of complex contracts and commercial risks.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Excellent influencing, communication and relationship management skills.
• Competent with IT software including Microsoft Office package.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays.
• Hybrid working.
• Company pension scheme.
• Bonus opportunity up to 10%.

Axi Recruitment Ltd are a professional recruitment consultancy delivering high-quality recruitment services to our clients nationwide. We regularly receive a large number of applicants to our job advertisements, which impacts our ability to provide individual feedback. If you have not received a response to your application within 14 days of submission, we regret to say that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.