Procurement Professional; based in Preston, 12 month contract; 37 hours a week; 24.00 per hour PAYE

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Procurement Professional to work as a member of the business, sector or group procurement team to provide procurement expertise, services and support to meet the operational needs of the business for BAE Systems. You will undertake a support role bringing a depth of expertise and will coordinate the work of others to ensure outcomes are delivered. As a Procurement Professional you will normally manage a larger or more complex order book, supplier or contract.

Typical duties will involve;
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the product or service provision:
- Meets the governance requirements of the business and our customers.
- Delivers optimum value for money.
- Achieves the required service level as agreed with internal stakeholders.
- Seek out and champion opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Ensure priorities are managed and any issues of concern are escalated.
- Demonstrate a good understanding of Company systems, including purchase to pay systems, risk and supplier management tools.
- Manage contracts throughout their life in conjunction with the business
- Proactively manage instances of supplier under-performance against cost, quality and schedule.
- Raise formal documents to support the sourcing and contracting process, including Request for Information, Request for Quotation, Assessment documents, Purchase Orders.
- Manage supplier payment process and resolve any goods receiving and supplier debt issues.
- Identify, deliver and record savings.
- Effectively manage order book, to ensure timely deliveries and accurate cash forecasting.
- May have responsibility for a small team or lead for an area of activity on behalf of the wider team.
- Support and develop junior members of the team.
- Work collaboratively to identify and escalate risk.
- Ability to deputise for the Procurement Lead or Manager
- Be an advocate for the Supply Chain Function.

The successful candidate will have experience working within a procurement environment and possess a good standard of procurement competence in key areas of Sourcing, process knowledge, contracting skills and supplier management. You will also demonstrate good business acumen..

The idealcandidate will possess or be working towards a Level 4 qualification (for example CIPS or ISM Level 4) or equivalent.

Skills:
- Works on own initiative with limited supervision and with responsibility for delivery, escalating concerns. Helps to define their own objectives.
- Works as an integral part of the team.
- Ability to use technical and previous experience to help make judgements.
- Analyse information and implement solutions with support, that best meet the requirements of the business.
- Accuracy and attention to detail.
- Prioritising workload and communicating this to stakeholders when required.
- Problem solving, working collaboratively within the team and with other stakeholders to identify solutions.
- Ability to prioritise workload based on business need
- Good stakeholder management.
- Excellent communication skills.

Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.

Buyer; vendor management; supply chain; procurement; purchasing; supplier management; risk management; negotiation; supplier performance; purchase orders; ERP systems; MS Office; influencing skills; shipping; ITAR; spares and repairs; RFQ; invoicing; SAP; Order book management; CIPS; MCIPS