Buyer - Indirect

Johnson Controls is a world leader in smart buildings, creating safe, healthy and sustainable spaces.

For nearly 140 years, weve made buildings better and now were transforming them again with our award-winning digital technologies and services. Were using artificial intelligence and data driven solutions to give you deeper insight into your buildings health, sustainability and performance. Its changing the way we design, operate and maintain indoor environments and driving to a new era of autonomous buildings.

We deliver the blueprint of the future for industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums, hotels, manufacturing and beyond through OpenBlue, our comprehensive suite of connected solutions.

Johnson Controls offers the worlds largest portfolio of building technology, software and services. Supported by a team of more than 100,000 dedicated employees working across 150 countries, were helping customers achieve their sustainability goals and power their mission.

What will you do

You will be required to work closely with the Procurement Manager, Category Managers and key stakeholders to understand spend requirements, negotiate prices and contracts with suppliers to achieve both cost book and savings targets. You will need to closely manage commercial and contractual interactions with external companies. You will be responsible for implementing and supporting the creation of key supplier partnership business plans based on internal requirements, supplier market analysis and cost models in order to achieve long-term working relationships that enable both supplier and JCI market growth. Stakeholder management will be the key to success and you will be expected to engage, obtain sponsorship and influence senior level stakeholders as well as you peers.

How will you do it

• Delivering against an agreed Category Strategy for Indirect Spend.
• Working in close collaboration with the UK&I Field business and the Category Management teams.
• Conducting end to end tender exercises & negotiations to appoint contracts and framework agreements with preferred suppliers.
• Responsible for generating & delivering savings opportunities against an annual target & improving supplier payment terms.
• Providing support and cover for the Indirect Spend Procurement Manager where needed.
• Working closely with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate into a sourcing strategy.
• Driving contract and category negotiations across the portfolio.
• Supplier K.P.I and S.L.A management, taking ownership of supplier quarterly business review meetings.
• Relationship management and post-contract value creation.
• Support supplier management processes including supplier on boarding, performance evaluations and audits.
• Creation and delivery of RFXs activities where appropriate using eSourcing platforms to deliver best solution proposals to the business for sourcing decisions.

What we look for

Required:

• Previous experience in a Procurement role
• Experience within the construction industry is preferable
• Managing internal stakeholders, external suppliers and working to very tight deadlines
• Gathering and analysing data to drive category and supplier decision-making
• Experience in MS Office and Procurement processes
• Handling multiple responsibilities and working independently where necessary
• Experience working within a team to achieve both individual and common goals
• Track record of delivering savings
• Proactive, adaptable & flexible, reliable & results focused
• Confident communicator with stakeholders at all levels, and strong presenting skills
• Highly organised with attention to detail & manages time effectively

• CIPS qualified or holds a relevant business degree

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