Category Buyer - Procurement
Rare opportunity to fast-track your procurement career with a global employer of choice. High profile market leader with best practice mindset.
Summary about this job
Purchasing, Procurement & Inventory
Company: FutureYou
Location: Sydney
Work type: Full Time
Salary: $90k - $91k p.a. + Super + Bonus
Phone: +61-2-8893-1253
Fax: +61-2-5457-5686
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Detail information about job Category Buyer - Procurement . Terms and conditions vacancy
- Join a world-class company with market leading profile
- High profile procurement function : work with and learn from the best
- Develop your career - this role will fast-track your category management skills
You will join an organisation that is committed to ethical, sustainable and best in class procurement strategies. This role will play a key part in developing category and sourcing initiatives whilst working for a dynamic and forward thinking procurement team.
Client Details
This iconic goods & services organisation has an unparalleled profile in its market. It is recognised as a world leader in its field and has a huge footprint in Australia providing a diverse range of products and services to a large number of customers on multiple sites and locations nationally.
Description
The Buyer role will have a wide remit, working across all key areas of operational procurement.
With a focus on best practice, optimisation, ethics and sustainability the Buyer role will have impact on all these areas by preparing and presenting detailed analysis for various categories of spend. Using this analysis the Buyer will be able to generate commercially relevant insights that will influence decisions made and form an assessment of the vendors performance.
This position is not a stock replenishment or purely transactional purchasing role. It is a an exciting pathway to category management that considers a full range of commercial and ethical considerations to determine a best practice outcome. As such, you will be involved in preparing and managing sourcing events, e-commerce, spend analysis, supplier engagement, pricing and cost evaluations as well as exposure to contracts management and vendors management.
In short, this is a rare and exciting opportunity to take a career move towards a Category Manager role.
Profile
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate the highest levels of professionalism, measured by your capacity to develop and learn whilst working collaboratively with the team, suppliers and customers.
You will have an energetic passion and a proven ability to understand the foundations of procurement as well as the motivation and desire to succeed in developing your skills towards a category management remit.
You will be highly organised, adept at dealing with change, willing to accelerate your learning whilst proving you can negotiate, manage processes, review options and drive recommendations.
Specific category experience is not required for this role but exposure to packaging, chemicals, consumables, travel, disposables and sub-contracting would be highly regarded.
Job Offer
- Excellent career platform to learn and develop
- Fast-track career opportunities
- Salary $90,000 + Super + Bonus
To apply for this position, please click the 'Apply Now' button below. For a confidential discussion, please contact Christian Bloomfield on 02 9195 2386.