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

Relationships and key contacts

What We're Looking For

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.

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