Job Purpose:
Reporting to the Director of Operations, you will have overall responsibility for all procurement and buying activity across our manufacturing division and beyond
Key Accountabilities:
- Setting up and managing new supplier agreements
- Liaising with suppliers and negotiating terms
- Supplier Audits / Ongoing supplier scoring and management
- Produce and manage a purchase strategy
- Work to a year on year cost saving target
- Consolidating spend
- Rationalisation of the supplier base
- Introducing robust processes to ensure you are maximising cost saving opportunities
- Managing costs and identifying opportunities for savings
- Ensuring Service Level Agreements are in place and managing suppliers against this
- Providing reports to the board as requested
- Communicating at all levels and dealing with end of end purchasing, including all administrative tasks
Measurements / Deliverables:
- Cost saving target
Skills/abilities and Aptitude:
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Strong Attention to Detail
- Analytical in your approach
- Excellent negotiating skills
- Ability to influence at all levels and drive best practice
Experience (Essential/Desirable):
- Minimum 3 years procurement experience within a manufacturing or engineering environment
- Experience of working with international suppliers would be advantageous
- Ability to negotiate and agree contractual terms
Qualifications (Essential/Desirable)
- CIPS Qualification
- Graduate Calibre
- GCSE Maths
