IT Buyer

As an IT Buyer you would be responsible for managing key supplier relationships, facilitating and contributing to supplier operational reviews, as well as working collaboratively with internal and external colleagues to deliver large high value projects.

Responsibilities will include

• Working closely with customers to purchase the correct IT products to meet their needs, facilitating discussions with customers and vendors to illicit their requirements.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Provide effective procurement consultancy advice and assistance to both the IT department and the business
• Understanding the customer requirements, suggesting alternative solutions where products are in constraint or end of life.
• Identify innovative procurement solutions to deliver tangible savings and process efficiencies for the organisation.
• Contribute to the planning and management of the team's workload throughput. This includes the management of IT orders to the value of circa £2 million per month.
• Negotiating with key suppliers to achieve value for money, securing costs savings for the business.
• Negotiate terms & conditions and pricing in conjunction with contract management and legal support.
• Creating and issuing purchase orders, using standard procedures, promptly to suppliers. When necessary ensuring high value purchase orders are approved, chasing Stakeholders to ensure orders reach suppliers in advance of any deadlines (quote expiration and continuation of service).
• Liaise with suppliers, where required, to chase late or missing orders to ensure that end users receive goods/services that they have requested in an acceptable timeframe.
• Proactively identify and effectively manage business risks.
• Contribute to Supplier relationship management, contract, and performance and risk management.
• Working with vendors, manufactures and suppliers to ensure an acceptable level of customer service is delivered. Agreeing SLA's and KPI's with RCDTS Value Add Resellers.
• Address vendor issues to ensure the highest level of service delivery.
• Maintain contractual and business relationships with vendors.
• Manage the Purchase to Pay (P2P) process for allocated category to agreed internal SLAs.
• Ensure that requisitions and orders follow the requirements of the Financial Regulations, Financial Procedures and Purchasing Policy and Guidance.
• Contribute to the smooth running of the operational purchasing elements of the RCDTS's SAP Finance System.
• Support the Accounts Payable team by processing invoices for payment in line with HMRC's payment SLA, identifying and rectifying invoice/order discrepancies
• Support the overall operations IT category strategy to ensure service delivery improvements.
• Support the improvement of procurement processes.
• Perform procurement reporting and analysis of management information to identify potential improvement opportunities.

Essential Criteria

As the ideal candidate you will be able to demonstrate

• The personal credibility to develop and maintain strong relationships both internally and externally.
• Knowledge of IT hardware/ software definitely advantageous.

• Experience of working in a demanding and fast paced environment
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to organise and manage workload, meeting deadlines when necessary
• Knowledge and experience of Microsoft packages, including Word and Excel
• Knowledge of SAP Procurement system
• Understanding the importance for detail
• Expertise at managing stakeholders, balancing diplomacy and tact with assertiveness
• A strong customer centric approach.

Desirable Experience

• CIPS professional accreditation

Please email your CV in the first instance for further details on how to apply.