Purchasing Team Leader

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United Kingdom | United Kingdom

Job description

Job Title: Purchasing Team Leader

Location: Uxbridge - Hybrid 

Insight is a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of hardware, software, cloud, and service solutions, providing clients the guidance and expertise needed to define, architect, implement and manage technology today while transforming for tomorrow.

The Purchasing team endeavours to source and develop mutually beneficial relationships with new suppliers to negotiate and procure goods, materials, and services, ensuring Insight can meet and exceed operational demand. The Purchasing team are responsible for supporting the management off all inventory and supply, ensuring Insight attains the best value for goods and services acquired, by achieving specific revenue and margin goals, and minimising inventory exposure through strategic supplier selection, tendering, and cost estimating.

The Purchasing Team Leader is responsible and accountable for the purchase of goods, materials, and services to ensure that the company’s operational needs are met, considering price, quality, and delivery to ensure continuity of supply.

  KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supervise and motivate the team, to promote teammate satisfaction through mentoring, development and career planning; creating a high performing team with a strong succession bench, enabling career progression.
• To ensure that purchasing policies and processes meet business objectives and operational needs in terms of price, quality and delivery targets, enabling Insight to function and compete effectively in the market.
• Create and review opportunities to implement best practice purchasing policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve business performance and deliver best value and business savings.
• Management of deal stock in terms of promotion, sell through and aging.
• Provision of data for strategic partners - open quotes, business performance data, share of business.
• Account mapping for sales floor engagement as required.
• Evaluate the challenges faced by the business and act to mitigate risks and develop opportunities.

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• Proven experience in a purchasing management role, preferably within a technical environment
• High level of written and spoken English
• Proven team leader experience – driving passion, motivation and energy throughout team
• Ability to develop friendly, positive and supportive working relationships with external and internal clients, and to provide them with excellent service
• A confident, outward-looking, proactive communicator
• Ability to provide effective leadership, build positive team spirit and inspire, motivate and support teammates
• Insight is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to achieving diversity and equality within our organisation. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage you to apply.
• We will endeavour to contact you within five business days, should we feel your profile is a good match for this role. If you do not hear from us within this timeframe, please presume that on this occasion, your application was not successful.

About Insight:

We believe that by giving you the freedom to think big and empower you to reach your full potential, together we will achieve the best outcomes. Along with excellent benefits and a compelling reward package, we offer the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with a high level of autonomy and creativity - there’s a reason our average employee tenure is over 6 years.

We strive to display our three core values of Hunger, Heart, and Harmony every day. They represent and drive who we are here at Insight and by doing so we are doing amazing things. Insight started in a garage in 1988 and it is through harnessing our three core values that two brothers, Eric and Tim Crown, steered Insight to the Fortune 500 company it is today. We are now a Global IT Services and Solutions business, passionate about helping customers and the real people who sit behind them.

Application Details:

Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to achieving diversity and equality within our organisation. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage you to apply.

We will endeavour to contact you within five business days, should we feel your profile is a good match for this role. If you do not hear from us within this timeframe, please presume that on this occasion, your application was not successful.

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