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

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