.**The Role** **- 2-year Fixed Term Contract**The Procurement Lead role is responsible for delivering strategic sourcing and commercial outcomes across defined commodity areas, supporting new product introduction, manufacturing, and distribution activities. The role provides expert market insight, commercial challenge, and supplier relationship management to ensure value for money, continuity of reliable supply and risk mitigation. Through a consultative, crossfunctional approach, the role strengthens procurement capability and delivers robust supplier and commodity strategies.**Responsibilities** * Deliver effective commodity strategies that secure value for money, continuity of supply, and appropriate risk management for the business.* Provide commercial leadership to supplier engagements, ensuring robust contracts, competitive outcomes, and balanced allocation of risk.* Support new product introduction and business change activity by providing timely, credible procurement input to business cases and decision-making.* Maintain market, cost, and supply insight to anticipate and manage price volatility, capacity constraints, and external market influences.* Develop and manage the supplier base to ensure capability, capacity, performance, and alignment with business requirements.* Drive procurement performance through clear targets, meaningful data, and delivery of agreed commercial and functional KPIs.* Enable effective cross-functional decision-making by influencing stakeholders and aligning procurement activity to strategic and operational priorities.* Ensure accurate forecasting, reporting, and data integrity to support budgeting, planning, and commercial governance.* Enable delivery of sustainability and decarbonisation objectives by influencing supply decisions and embedding responsible sourcing practices.Experience of delivering strong commercial outcomes within a manufacturing or technically complex environment. Experience of developing and deploying procurement or commodity strategies aligned to business objectives.Capability to lead and execute supplier negotiations, including the ability to influence and challenge stakeholders at a senior level. Experience of managing multiple workstreams and priorities, applying logical problem solving and sound judgement at pace. Experience of working effectively in a cross functional or matrix environment, influencing outcomes without direct authority. Proficiency in the use of procurement systems, business systems, and data tools to support sourcing and reporting activities.Willingness and ability to travel as required to supplier and business locations.Experience within HVAC, electronics, or other technical manufacturing sectors. **The Benefits** Nuaire are market-leading, renowned for radically improving the quality of people’s lives by delivering clean air everywhere. We’re a diverse group of thinkers and doers, constantly re imagining our products and leading the way in product innovation for Residential, Commercial and international markets. That innovation is inspired by a shared commitment to doing great work and supporting and each other.Our exceptional on-the-ground and back-office teams are applying their superior technical knowledge to solve today’s ventilation challenges. From filtering harmful particulates in airports to preventing damp in social housing, we are inventing, designing, producing and delivering the ideal solution for our clients, to the exact specification they need.
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