Are you an experienced Procurement Manager and CIPS qualified? Would you like to work for a well established  company who have a great culture and who really do look after their staff? If you have worked within an Industrial manufacturing/distribution company then this would be an advantage.You will also need a positive and tenacious attitude with a desire to drive the business forward. Salary is negotiable, up to £35,000 plus benefits.

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Key Job Responsibilities:

• Procurement of all products and services at the best commercial terms and conditions for the Company.
• Analyse inventory levels to determine and implement ways to increase inventory turns, reduce waste, and optimise customer service.
• Be responsible for the day to day interface with identified direct spend key suppliers.
• Be responsible and accountable for the achievement of year on year cost reduction targets on all procured products and services.
• Assist the business teams in the timely and cost competitive formulation of requests for quotation (RFQ) for new customer prospects.
• Ensure effective and commercially competitive sources of supply necessary to complete timely customer RFQ responses aligned to customer prospect expectations for domestic and export customer prospects.

• Formulate, develop and maintain a system of supplier performance metrics which cover as a minimum: cost, quality and delivery.
• Implement selected price benchmarking analysis to determine supplier competitiveness on both direct and indirect spend categories.
• Ongoing and proactive assessment of currency and raw material trends in relation to key supplier products and sources of supply to negotiate advantageous terms.
• Effectively challenging price increases, notified shipment costs and negotiating price variations with suppliers.
• Visit identified new suppliers as required.
• Produce spend and inventory KPI reporting and trends to senior management.

Job Skills and Competencies Required:

• Minimum 5 years in a Procurement Supervisory or Management role necessary.
• Experience of effective sourcing from regions outside of the UK.
• Previous successful and demonstrable achievement of cost reduction targets.
• Strong self starter and a passion for continuous improvement.
• Excellent all round IT skills and experience of introducing new work processes.
• Qualified to CIPS Advanced Diploma standard or better (or equivalent) a distinct advantage.
• Strong communication skills – inter personal and written.
• Demonstrable competitive and tenacious attitude to the requirements of the role.

Benefits Package

22 days holiday, increasing to 27 with loyalty, healthcare, pension, on site parking and working a 37.5 hour week.