GNFR Buyer - 9 month FTC

GNFR Buyer - 9 month FTC

What will you do? 

This role will see you act as a strategic business partner and trusted advisor,  working with the relevant business areas to help provide overall direction for procurement activity,  with a strong lens on commerciality and providing efficiencies within the Group. The activities expected within this position include contractual renewals, supplier benchmarking, running small tenders and supporting the Senior Procurement Managers with larger transformational RFP work.

Some accountabilities of the role: 

• Commercially astute and influential

• Provide insight on market knowledge and applying it to Travis Perkins

• Ability to work with ambiguity

• An advocate for the Commercial Team

• Be inquisitive about the Group and the decisions previously made

• Experience with managing internal and external stakeholders

• Responsible for engagement with internal stakeholders participating with the relevant streams of work.

• Previous experience of negotiations with 3rd parties

• Effect communications management between 3rd parties participating on the relevant streams of work and the Program team/TP stakeholders

• Ensures that terms and conditions are aligned with current legislation and policy. 

• Will provide support to Senior Procurement Managers/Procurement Managers in tendering activity, including sourcing relevant long list participants and RFP construction. 

• Utilise commercial policy and procedures to manage day to day activities. 

What you’ll need to have/be:

• Evidence of negotiation skills. 

• Works well with others in an integrated team environment

• Well organised with an eye for detail. 

• Ability to adapt to a fast-moving landscape and keep pace with latest thinking 

• Analytical mind capable of managing numerous information sources and providing data analysis reports to senior management

• Customer focus – able to meet the demands of internal and external customers 

• Can make decisions that are well informed and timely 

• Excellent communication skills – providing verbal and written communication that is outstanding to both direct reports and senior management as well as other stakeholders 

• Flexible and adaptable – capable of changing direction where required and showing flexibility to meet new demands

• Creative thinking – able to look at alternatives and consider new ways of thinking to problem solve

• Multi-tasking – can manage several concurrent projects and prioritise demands

• Extensive knowledge of best practice

What’s in it for you?

Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves - you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.

You’ll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. 

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

• Competitive bonus

• Save-as-you-earn scheme

• Buy-as-you-earn scheme

• Contributory pension scheme

• Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!