Procurement Consultant -Payments, Finance and Consultancy contracts

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Job description

Procurement Consultant -Payments, Finance and Consultancy contracts
Hourly Rate €71 - 40 hours per week
Until the end of the year
Amsterdam

What you will be doing as a Procurement Consultant:

• Manage, negotiate and contribute to multiple projects simultaneously from a Procurement perspective - these will range from simple transactional tasks to executing high-impact and complex sourcing activities.
• Work on regional or global contracts with a spend scope of up to 10.000k. Scope covers at least one full category, couple with providing support to multiple sub-categories
• Be responsible for negotiating the best pricing & terms for the products/services to be bought
• Be able to guide multiple Payments Commercial teams on best procurement 7-step practice regarding contracting and spot opportunities for cross-brand commercial benefit.
• Lead and monitor supplier performance management with internal business partners where needed
• Engage and coordinate with the respective Legal parties at BHI as well as the counterparty's Legal team to comply with BHI/brand data privacy, security and sustainability guidelines
• Use our Analytics tool to prepare spend analysis to help inform decisions in the category, generation of KPIs + internal reports and provide visibility and possibilities for cost reduction.
• Ensure all BHI/brand Compliance standards are adhered to in all contracting, including working to use BHI/brand contract templates where possible.
• Act as a first point of contact for vendor and procurement escalations from business stakeholders and accounting operations
• Be comfortable communicating with and presenting to Senior Leadership in different departments in English
• Be able to negotiate with suppliers on contractual clauses that deviate from our preferred terms, knowing when to bring Subject Matter Experts from across the company and/or seek exceptional approvals where needed.
• Establish and maintain procurement best practices and shares learnings with peers
• Ensure that daily procurement operations (eg PO approvals, support new vendor setups on Accounts Payable platforms, proper contract storage etc.) are taking place in line with the Procurement Policy and without delay
• Function as a backfill for the Procurement Manager or other team members where needed
• Be comfortable operating in an environment that rewards proactivity and identifying opportunities for optimisation

Skills you will need:

• Ability to apply broad knowledge of one professional discipline or advanced knowledge of specific technical/operational practices
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong work ethic; self-directed and resourceful
• Solution oriented and result driven
• Proactive, flexible and capable of working independently as well as working in a team
• Good communication and analytical skills
• Ability to multi-task & flexible attitude
• Work in a dynamic, agile, results oriented and multinational environment
• Systems: SAP, Microsoft Office (Excel advanced level)
• Tendering and contracting experience preferable in the area of services or experience in the P2P process
• Affinity with legal, risk and security, data privacy
• Job Knowledge (3 - 5 years)
• Strong knowledge about payments, finance and consultancy contracts.

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