indirect procurement business partner (corporate services)

Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.

Why we need this role

Colt are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Indirect Procurement Business Partner to join our Corporate Services Procurement team. This role is pivotal in driving value across indirect spend categories, including but not limited to; HR, Legal, Data Protection, ESG, Marketing, Professional Services, Facilities, Real Estate, Recruitment, Temporary Staff (Contractors).

The Role will act as a strategic partner to internal stakeholders, ensuring procurement excellence and continuous improvement managing the company’s supply portfolio ensuring transparency of spending and categories of spend according to business needs. You'll also be generating and implementing efficient sourcing and category management strategies and calculating costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure.

As a Procurement Business Partner within Corporate you'll be responsible for handling Corporate sourcing operations, appraising and improving our sourcing activities by analyzing the company’s spending, supplying partnerships and new possibilities.

What You Will Do

Ensures the effective procurement of services in a timely and efficient manner.

Develops and Implements the Category strategies, to control costs, time, promote competition and safeguard supply capacity, including suppliers consolidation opportunities, consistently with Group objectives and targets.

Manages engagements and collaborates with internal stakeholders to ensure Categories and saving plans, budget assumptions, terms and processes are consistently reviewed and aligned and internal stakeholder expectations are met.

Lead sourcing initiatives across Indirect Procurement corporate service categories, ensuring cost-effectiveness and compliance.

Partner with internal stakeholders to understand business needs and deliver procurement solutions.

Develop and execute Indirect Category strategies aligned with business goals

Ensure procurement processes are followed with high attention to detail and governance

Negotiate with external vendors to secure advantageous terms. Engineer value-driven negotiation plans

Analyse and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure

Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power

Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking

Estimate risks and apply risk minimizing techniques

Discover and partner with trustworthy, inclusive & Diverse vendors and suppliers

Support sustainable procurement approach in line with ISO20400 guidance

Establishes and maintains regular and productive relationships with business stakeholders to achieve agreed business goals.

Maximizes the use of tools, processes, policy setting and enforcement in alignment with the Categories strategy to support the control of the spend.

Manages tender processes from the specification stage to final contract award.

Following contract award, manages and leads the contract negotiation process to conclusion.

Ensures all the documentation relevant to sourcing activities is complete and available in Ariba (RFP, scoring tools and results, Order Forms, SoWs)

Key performance indicators

Opex and Capex savings against budget

Opex and Capex avoidance

ROI

Sustainable metrics

Relevant support to the business to deliver at the right cost, the right object, at the right time

Successful opportunity analysis

Full alignment with Business Owners

Relationships and key contacts

You will be working closely with the Finance Business partners, legal as well as internal stakeholders

You will be in constant touch with Colt suppliers

What We're Looking For

Minimum 3 years’ experience in Procurement Sourcing management (Indirect Procurement experience preferred)

Strong internal engagement, Interpersonal and influencing skills. Adaptability. Highly driven and self-directed, Problem solver

Has delivered large, Indirect Procurement / Strategic sourcing RFP globally

Proven work experience as a sourcing sourcing officer

Familiarity with sourcing and vendor and risk management and relevant software

Experince in Indirect Category Management

Strong project management and leadership skills

Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships

Commercial and Analytical Acumen; Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data. Detail orientated decision making

Solid judgement with ability to make good decisions

High level of understanding on procurement best practice and tools (e.g. Ariba, SAP, Fieldglass …)

Advanced Excel skills

Skills

End to end Sourcing

Strategic Sourcing

Contract & Supplier Negotiation

Indirect Procurement Category Management

Supplier Relationship Management

Spend Analysis & Cost Optimization / Value Driven

Risk Management; evaluation & mitigation

Financial Literacy

Commercial and Analytical Acumen

Influencing & Communication

Cross-functional Collaboration

Change Management

Education

A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Management or a relevant field

What We Offer You

Looking to make a mark?

At Colt, you’ll make a difference. Because around here, we empower people. We don’t tell you what to do.

Instead, we employ people we trust, who come together across the globe to create intelligent solutions.

Our global teams are full of ambitious, driven people, all working together towards one shared purpose : to put the power of the digital universe in the hands of our customers wherever, whenever and however they want.

We give our people the opportunity to inspire and lead teams, and work on projects that connect people, cities, businesses, and ideas. We want you to help us change the world, for the better.

Diversity and inclusion

Inclusion and valuing diversity of thought and experience are at the heart of our culture here at Colt. From day one, you’ll be encouraged to be yourself because we believe that’s what helps our people to thrive. We welcome people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability, neurodiversity, age, marital status, pregnancy status, or place of birth.

Most Recently We Have

Signed the UN Women Empowerment Principles which guide our Gender Action Plan

Trained 60 (and growing) Colties to be Mental Health First Aiders

Please speak with a member of our recruitment team if you require adjustments to our recruitment process to support you. For more information about our Inclusion and Diversity agenda, visit our DEI pages.

Benefits

Our benefits support you through all parts of life, for both physical and mental health.

Flexible working hours and the option to work from home.

Extensive induction program with experienced mentors and buddies.

Opportunities for further development and educational opportunities.

Global Family Leave Policy.

Employee Assistance Program.

Internal inclusion & diversity employee networks.

A global network

When you join Colt you become part of our global network. We are proud of our colleagues and the stories and experience they bring – take a look at ‘Our People’ site including our Empowered Women in Tech.