Senior Procurement Specialist

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Procurement Specialist to join our Procurement team in Abingdon, this is a permanent part time position.

The Role

Our procurement specialist will be a proactive, creative, and personable procurement professional to join our talented, friendly, and supportive team. Our team reflects the dynamic, diverse, and multicultural organisation we support, as an enabling function the procurement team maintains a collaborative relationship with operations to ensure our high standards of service ensure “Research Never Stops”. 

Role: Senior Procurement Specialist

Job Type: Permanent

Hours: Part time, Monday to Friday 26 hours per week

Salary : Competitive salary, plus excellent company benefits

Location: Abingdon,Oxfordshire

Evotec is a leader in the discovery and development of novel small molecule drugs with operational sites in Europe and the US. The Company has built substantial drug discovery expertise and an industrialised platform that can drive new innovative small molecule compounds into the clinic. In addition, Evotec has built a deep internal knowledge base in the treatment of diseases related to neuroscience, pain, oncology, inflammation and metabolic diseases. Leveraging these skills and expertise the Company intends to develop best-in-class differentiated therapeutics and deliver superior science-driven discovery alliances with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of good practices and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Participation in strategic purchasing projects and deployment in various strategic purchasing tasks
• With end-to-end order management as well as supplier & process-related subjects, building strong supplier relationships.
• Interaction with a range of stakeholders, providing help and guidance to colleagues regarding all procurement matters as well as offering support to both the order management team.
• Along with the buying team help manage the end-to-end purchasing process. Use your experience to help the buying team to identify and evaluate new and alternative products and suppliers with the aim of providing best in class service.
• As a key member in identifying, sourcing, delivering, and reporting cost-saving and reduction opportunities.
• Looking at new ways to identify improvements and develop an E-Procurement platform contributing to the Global Procurement objectives for best-in-class procurement technologies.
• Managing requests for new suppliers, solicitation, and evaluation of quotations
• Providing excellent customer service to all stakeholders
• Work alongside Finance to resolve invoice queries
• Working hand in hand with operational teams to drive our focus on delivering a quality service operation to the business.

Skills and Competencies

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work as a team and in a commercial environment.
• Comfortable working with a high level of autonomy, highly proactive and enthusiastic.
• Strong communication and networking skills including remote interactions, as well as good organisational and time management abilities and customer-oriented.
• Ability to work with and manage a closely interacting team to deliver to tight timelines.
• Problem-solver, highly adaptive and able to work effectively in a fast-moving and high growth environment.
• An outstanding negotiator and able to demonstrable savings achieved.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, experience, within this role essential good numerical and analytical skills
• Commercial negotiation experience with a good understanding of basic contractual terms
• Excellent interpersonal skills, capable of interfacing with internal and external contacts at all levels
• Working towards a CIPS qualification (desirable)

Education and Experience

• Previous relevant work experience within purchasing environment, we are open to sector background.
• BA/BS Degree (or higher/equivalent) in either economics or equivalent with relevant focus Or equivalent relevant industrial or academic experience is expected.
• E-procurement knowledge, experience with supplier catalogues and b2b processes, proactive, organised, flexible 

Company Benefits

• Company Pension Scheme on completion of your 3-month probationary period. Contributions start at 6% employee and employer, Evotec will match up to 7.5%.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and additional length of service days awarded on the anniversary, up to a maximum of 30 days
• Private health insurance with BUPA for the employees and their partner/family under the company scheme
• Private dental cover, after 3 months service
• Life assurance at four times your annual base salary
• Wellbeing support 24/7 and counselling services
• Permanent health insurance providing 75% of base salary after the qualifying period
• Eligibility to participate in the Company Bonus Scheme.  This is a discretionary benefit
• We have an excellent training and support and continuing professional development opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Refer a friend scheme, team and annual events, recognition awards and many more!

FR : Dans le cadre de sa politique Diversité, Evotec étudie, à compétences égales, toutes les candidatures dont celles des personnes en situation de handicap.

ENG : In the frame of our Diversity policy, Evotec considers, with equal competences, all applications including people with disabilities.