Procurement Specialist - Reading

Reading, England, United Kingdom

12/5/2024

Future Opportunities

We are currently sourcing interested individuals for potential future positions. You must have the right to work in the UK. If you'd like to be considered for upcoming opportunities, please express your interest, and we'll keep you informed. We are an equal opportunity employer.

About The Job

As a Regional Procurement Specialist, you will be responsible for identifying suppliers of goods and services, negotiating terms with suppliers, and ensuring that all procurement activities align with our company's budget constraints and profitability goals.

What will you do?:

• Identify and evaluate potential suppliers of goods and services. Cost Savings and benefits generation planning.
• Negotiate terms with suppliers, including prices, discounts and rebate or credit arrangements, quality, deadlines, and expectations.
• Processing, approvals management and issue of all supply contract documentation (including NDA, MSA, SSA, CCN, Novation and Terminations).
• Terminating, Amending or Suspending Supplier Agreements, Vendor Accounts and any In-Scope Category related payments.
• Liaise with suppliers and project managers to provide updates and details of goods.
• Create and manage purchase orders, ensuring they align with supply requests and orders.
• Analyze invoices to ensure the accuracy of goods delivered.
• Monitor inventory levels to maintain a positive flow of goods.
• Creating and Managing Effective Contract Management Processes: including the creation of suitable supply contracts against approved expenditure requirements, processing approval workflows in accordance with the company Authorisations Matrix, executing signature and recording commitments correctly into the Contract Management Systems (CMS).
• Managing and maintaining a single company database for supplier related operational information required by the business (typically relating to Approved and Preferred Supplier Lists (PSL), contacts and account managers, telephone numbers, email addresses and agree Rate Cards).
• Attend meetings with the legal/procurement department to ensure contractual obligations are favorable to the company.
• Work closely with the projects/Bid/Sales teams to understand procurement requirements.
  
  

What will you bring to ESP?

• Proven experience working as a procurement specialist.
• Strong knowledge of the industry and market conditions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Impeccable negotiation and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and rapport building.
• Flexibility to work long hours as demanded by projects.
• Economic factors such as inflation, supply & demand, interest rates and geopolitical influences.
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) techniques.
• Sustainability, Environmental and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
  
  

If you are….

Motivated to develop your career in Human Resources, supported by a strong learning and development culture, you are passionate about delivering service excellence and like the variety of end user environments we should connect and explore.

What We Will Offer

Personal & Professional Development

Within a learning and development culture, we offer unlimited access to a wealth of professional and personal training so that you may develop your career. We will guide all employees to both specific technologies and client environment training and compliment with recommended learning journeys via our L&D system, that cater to helping you reach career goals or objectives — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here.

Salary

We offer a competitive range based upon suitability or experience.

Benefits

• Holiday Leave
• Pension
• Life Insurance
• Perkbox discounts
  
  

Who are we:

ESP Global Services has been providing customized 24/7 Global IT support solutions since 1992, expertly managed by a dedicated service delivery team, we offer day-to-day support via teams of on-site engineers or responsive visiting engineers, and multi-lingual service desk coordination that’s manages over 1,000 tickets a day for more than 200 customers.

Our ability to deliver customer-centric, targeted, and tailored IT support solutions is a natural fit for the complex needs of the fast-paced and evolving aviation industry. We developed technology-based solutions to address the high emphasis on meeting extremely short service levels spread across large campus areas with strict security controls. Supporting equipment for airports and airlines in many locations worldwide, has led to an IT support approach that applies equally to any global business with multiple international locations, wide campuses, and demanding security requirements. Plus, our spares, repairs, and logistics service enables us to deliver intelligent end-to-end IT hardware lifecycle management anywhere in the world.

We are global community of exceptional people passionately working together with one shared vision. We uphold the highest standards of ethics, compliance, and security. We are fully ITIL-aligned and ISO-accredited for Environment, Information Security, Business Continuity, IT Service Management, and Occupational Health and Safety, and have privacy built by design into all our systems.

Our vision and ethos have stood the test of time and we aim to exceed expectation and delight customers every time and our values are integral to the way we work together.

Join a team that prioritizes excellence—our ISO 9001 certification reflects our commitment to quality and superior customer service.

ESP Global Services is an equal opportunity employer.