Senior Category Buyer
About Us
We deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses every day. Our expertise and track record position us to shape the sustainable future of our industry. We connect people to the energy they need for their lives and anticipate their needs to reduce the cost of energy delivery and pioneer flexible energy systems.
About The Role
Reporting into a Category Manager (Band D), the Senior Buyer is responsible for strategic procurement operations within the aligned business area(s). The role involves partnering with the Category Manager to deliver Category strategies. This includes engaging and building strong working relationships with stakeholders across the business, within procurement, and externally to identify business needs and understand supply chains to offer the best solutions for National Grid.
What You'll Do
- Deliver multiple strategic sourcing events within portfolio, working with stakeholders to understand and challenge demand and ensure the best possible solutions for National Grid.
- Input into the development and execution of sourcing strategy for allocated category and execute standardised strategic sourcing processes from market engagement through to award, ensuring goods / services are procured in a best-in-class manner that drives value.
- Work with Contract Managers or Procurement Programme Managers to ensure the successful delivery of contracted activities, identifying continuous improvement opportunities through engagement with suppliers and stakeholders, and maximizing value for money from contracts awarded.
- Support the overall development and delivery of assigned category strategy and share best practice across other category teams.
- Profile category characteristics and research supply markets, suppliers and assess trends, opportunities and risks feeding insights into the Global teams and Market and Supplier Development teams.
- Deliver value by effectively managing tender events for key products required by the business.
- Contribute to an effective forward planning process by identifying future requirements of supported areas and ensure robust forecasting is put in place that maximizes value of goods / services procured.
- Scope and develop regional contractual agreements that meet the customer stakeholder requirements and expectations.
Qualifications
- Significant experience of strategic sourcing and category management
- An understanding of project management principles and evidence of managing multiple projects and consistently delivering outstanding results
- Ability to prepare for and lead negotiations
- Ability to build and manage complex commercial assessment models
- Experience of contract development, including the ability to make recommendations and amendments to existing contracts as well as drafting new ones
- Degree level or equivalent
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Annual Salary
Syracuse, NY and surrounding area: $91,000-$106,000
Waltham, MA and surrounding area: $102,000-$119,000
Brooklyn, NY and surrounding area: $109,000-$128,000
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This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills.
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Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.
Benefits
National Grid will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. You must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.
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