Sustainable Procurement Specialist - flexible location

Job Introduction

DAC Beachcroft is looking for a Procurement Specialist to join our Property & FM team in Bristol.

We are looking for an inspiring, CIPS qualified, individual to join us in a job of the future. Focusing on all Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) aspects of our supply chain this will be a pivotal role in the delivery of our sustainability programme.

This position will help contribute to the fulfilment of our environmental and societal commitments, employment or integration, while improving economic performance for the business.

We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role.  If this applies to you and you feel you meet the minimum criteria for this vacancy as set out in this advert then please contact recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the Recruitment team will be in touch.

Role Responsibility

Key Responsibilities

Operational

You will need to have solid background in procurement, sustainability and experience in helping drive cultural changes to achieve the ambitious ESG targets we have set.

• Have experience and ability to manage stakeholders at all levels within an international law firm.
• Work with the procurement team and key stakeholders to proactively engage and improve sustainability & ESG in strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management.
• Help design, deliver and monitor process enhancements to embed sustainability in our everyday sourcing and procurement processes incl. implementation of new systems, workflow and reporting.
• Help drive the development of sustainability objectives for inclusion in scorecards as part of supplier selection using metrics and targets based on market methodologies.
• Advise on and help develop associated deployment plans with the procurement team and other stakeholders across the business to ensure alignment of social value and sustainability targets.
• Proactively maintain and develop subject matter expertise and awareness of the regulations, legislation, restrictions, controls and certifications that will be placed upon us in our journey.
• To participate in specialist topic working groups internally and externally representing the procurement function.
• Work with the procurement team and key stakeholders to improve sustainability & ESG in strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management.
• Collaborate with, and provide training, across the business to drive a step change in the evaluation of suppliers and negotiation of contracts.
• Monitoring potential risks and escalate to Head of Procurement and the Practice Risk and Governance team.
• Responsible for vendors' reputational risk assessments and associated reporting.
• Management of collection of our Annual Reporting disclosures. 

Core Skills

• Experience in ESG focused procurement.
• A desire to work with cross-functional teams.
• Influencing and negotiation.
• Relationship Management.
• Communication.
• Change management.

The Ideal Candidate

Attributes

• Evidence of understanding of own strengths and limitations and self-development.
• Clearly demonstrates energy, drive, initiative, resilience, and the ability to keep several projects going at the same time.
• Can work effectively with people with diverse skills, abilities, and experience
• Evidence of a strong sense of commitment to trust and respect, honesty, inclusiveness and personal integrity.
• Demonstrated drive for continuous improvement, maximising performance, productivity and efficiency.

Experience

• Demonstrates ability to manage and liaise with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of working under pressure and meeting tight deadlines, managing multiple tasks and remaining focused.
• Developing and maintaining Supplier Relationships Management and Supplier Risk Management
• Experienced in indirect procurement tenders, contracts and supplier management.
• Experience of planning, organising and prioritising workload.
• Experience of providing an internal support service.
• Proven experience in sustainable procurement activities.

Skills & Qualifications

• CIPS qualified
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to respond effectively to multiple priorities
• IT competence (Word, Excel, Internet) 
• Competent literacy and numeracy skills
• Good team work skills and actively involves colleagues across the business, building the benefits of collaborative working.

About the Company

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them.  From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual.  Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are.  We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.

We also want you to be at your very best.  Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.  If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.  Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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