Forward Assist Recruitment
Location
Stockport, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom
Job description
Purchasing Manager
Stockport
£50,000 - £60,000
Our client is looking to further expand their team and is looking to hire a Purchasing Manager to manage the established procurement team to ensure consistent timely delivery of technically compliant materials and services to the Bridges Manufacture and procurement of non-production materials and services.
This hands-on role requires you to employ current supply chain best practice develop strategic supplier relationships personally and through your team at all times working within a governance framework and ensure robust commercial baselines / protections.
Main Duties:
- Influence and drive implementation of the procurement strategy at Bid and Production phases ensuring risk is clearly identified and provisioned for
- Manage the Bridges procurement team, prioritising and ensuring procurement needs of production and the business are delivered in a timely and commercially robust manner
- Create and implement appropriate contracts with strategic and tactical suppliers
- Lead multifunctional reviews and improvement activities with suppliers
- Be responsible for proactively driving supply chain obsolescence issues
- Undertake periodic personal development and objective reviews with each team member ensuring training needs are identified and executed
- Populate, communicate, and keep topical procurement metrics and reports. Validate against exception reports and ensure root cause of poor performance identified and mitigated internally and or with suppliers
- Ensure functional governance topical and team compliance
- Work closely with Quality to ensure robust and consistent supplier approvals, monitoring and ensuring preventative / corrective actions are closed in timely manner
- Represent procurement and procurement status in project and business meetings
- Identify areas for improvement and implement these changes
Qualifications and Education:
- Business / Engineering degree or equivalent
- MCIPS
- Full UK driving license (essential)
Relevant Experience:
- 6+ years procurement experience minimum 2 years in leadership role
- Commodity buying and LME pricing. Familiarity with purchase of metals.
- Supply Chain/Procurement experienced gained in an Engineering and / or defence environment
- Demonstrable negotiating ability
- Proven understanding of and ability to create and implement appropriate commercial terms / service level agreements
- Strong focus on governance and supply chain robustness
- Experience of using SAP or other MRP system
- Microsoft Excel Intermediate level, ability to manipulate spreadsheets
- Import Export / Government Security Classifications knowledge
- Experience of procurement bid strategy development and execution
- Knowledge of Counterfeit and appropriate supply chain mitigations
The Person:
- Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to influence internal and external parties
- Hands on management approach - willingness to get involved in all activities to enable operations of the department
- Can do, make it happen attitude
- Coaching and empowering leadership skills
- Ability to travel in UK and abroad if require
Forward Assist Recruitment is operating as an employment agency. Forward Assist Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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£50k - £60k per annum
