Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Buying decisions you can defend, and savings you can prove.

Most small companies buy from whoever they bought from last time. That is not a decision, and it quietly costs a lot: fragmented spend across three suppliers who could be one, prices that drifted up without anyone noticing, and contracts that auto-renewed because nobody diarised the notice date.

One category at a time, biggest first. Your sourcing seat reads what the company actually spends, picks the category where the money and the mess are, and works that one properly instead of tinkering everywhere.

The scoring is set before the bids are opened. Requirements written first, weights agreed first, the same questions to everyone. It is the difference between a decision and a preference with a spreadsheet attached.

Total cost, not sticker price. The cheapest unit with a six-week lead time, a high failure rate and a punishing minimum order is not cheap. Freight, terms, quality, switching cost and lead time all carry a number.

The saving is verified months later, against real invoices. Claimed versus realised, with the difference explained. Most savings claims are never checked, which is why so many of them are fiction.

It recommends; you award. It never signs, never raises a purchase order, and never claims a number it has not seen in the ledger.