Junior Global Category Buyer (Graduate calibre)

Job Introduction

As Junior Global Buyer, you'll support Senior Global Buyers with complex global categories activity tasks including analysis, sourcing, product range rationalisation work. 

You'll use your MS Excel and Analytical expertise to manage the reporting and analysis of projects in close collaboration with the wider team.  Highly organised with attention to detail you'll take pride in your standards of work.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious Graduate calibre candidate with international exposure and some employment experience within Procurement in terns of tenders, suppliers management , to join a global multi-cultural high performing team.  You'll have a team player and collaborative working mind-set in addition to effective interpersonal and communication skills

Commercially minded with an appetite to learn and progress your future career, you'll also ideally have had some international exposure whether you have lived outside of the UK for a period of time or you may have studied in the UK from another country and wish to develop a successful career here

Service Operations is the part of our business that supports segment development by providing expertise and process standardisation across all segments. Service Operations leverages our global expertise and best practice to bring the best of Sodexo to all of our clients. It includes everything from FM expertise to food development through to bid support, health and safety, and contract design and management.

Role Responsibility

• Deliver the data collection / reporting for the team
• Assist in the design and implementation of category strategies which significantly improves the commercial performance at a group and regional level whilst maintaining compliance to company policy and standards and mitigating all risk.
• Engage the different regions in an active collaboration for developing categories globally
• Build a strong network within the Supply Management organisation in the regions

*Please see attached Job Description

The Ideal Candidate

• Financial and data driven - analytical reporting expertise
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel
• Experience in supply management highly desirable
• International experience / exposure
• Graduate calibre with appetite for further personal development
• Ability and experience in working in a multi-cultural and matrix environment
• Team player with excellent communication and influencing skills
• Financial acumen and result orientated
• Fluency in English essential and another language is desirable
• CIPS/ISM or equivalent qualification desirable
• Flexible for international travel

Package Description

Competitive salary of £40,000-£45,000 plus benefits including bonus, pension, flexible benefits

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs which includes a technology scheme, private dental insurance, travel insurance, gym membership, Gourmet card, private medical insurance and the ability to purchase or sell annual leave to name but a few.

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.