indirect procurement business partner (corporate services)

Overview

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 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 RFPs globally.
• Proven work experience as a sourcing officer.
• Familiarity with sourcing and vendor and risk management and relevant software.
• Experience 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-oriented 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.
• Education : A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Management or a relevant field.

Responsibilities

What we offer

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 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.

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