Sourcing Specialist

Jackson Hogg Procurement are delighted to be exclusively partnered with PD Ports in Middlesbrough on their search for a Sourcing Specialist to join their procurement team.

This is a full-time and permanent role offering a competitive salary.

The Sourcing Specialist is responsible for leading strategic and tactical sourcing activities to deliver best value, mitigate risk, supporting business objectives and in compliance with the company’s Procurement policies. This includes supplier identification, tendering, negotiation, and contract recommendation across assigned categories and capital expenditure projects.

Benefits include hybrid working, pension matched up to 7%, flexibility to hours and 25 days holiday + bank holidays.

The Role:

• Lead and execute sourcing projects aimed at reducing cost, minimising risk and optimising business processes for operating goods and services including those commodities that that fall into the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23).
• Prepare sourcing documentation, evaluation templates and recommendation reports.
• Develop and implement sourcing plans/strategies for commodities to category and business needs, considering situation analysis, company objectives, key industry market and economic trends.
• Support supplier onboarding and due diligence activities.
• Evaluate supplier capability, financial risk, and performance.
• Build collaborative supplier relationships.
• Negotiate contracts with suppliers, ensuring favourable contractual terms and conditions and specifications, deliverables and performance metrics are clear and can be easily quantified.
• Work with the legal function to construct the necessary contractual arrangements to ensure all contractual terms and conditions are approved and corporate risk is minimised.
• Maintain and administer contract documentation and contract registers.
• Mediate issues between stakeholders and suppliers as required.
• Deliver cost savings and value improvements.
• Encourage and influence stakeholders to ensure category spend and capital are directed through the central Procurement function.
• Establish internal relationships with all business units, identifying category spend for review driven by stakeholder requirements and to ensure common procurement requirements are leveraged across the business units.
• Identify opportunities to improve procurement processes, controls and efficiencies.
• Produce procurement reports and spend analysis to support category planning and sourcing activities.
• Maintain accurate records and audit trails.

The Person/Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years working in a procurement, purchasing, sourcing or commercial role.
• Experience supporting sourcing activities and supplier negotiations.
• Experience analysing spend data and preparing procurement reports.
• Good understanding of procurement processes and contract management principles.
• Strong commercial awareness and analytical capability.
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work to deadlines.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Experience using ERP systems and procurement software.
• Proficiency in managing multiple work activities simultaneously in a heavy workload and fast paced environment.

For more information, please get in touch with Gemma Yeadon - Sector Lead | Procurement at Jackson Hogg Recruitment.