Job Description
Our client is a rapidly growing business designing some of the most innovative and interesting applications for the marine industry. If you are a meticulous individual with a passion for design and development, for a pre-production project then this could be perfect for you.
Procurement Specialist
Marine applications
Permanent
Fantastic benefits
Benefits
* Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
* Wellbeing Day - An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
* Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
* Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
* Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
* Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
* Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to LinkedIn Learning.
* Pension Contribution – pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice
* Flexible Working – Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work–life balance.
* Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.
Responsibilities will include:
* Procure a combination of build to print and build to specification goods and services in a largely production ERP environment but must be able to work with engineering teams to support the definition of requirements ahead of formal definition in a BOM.
* Creation and management of purchase orders including order acknowledgement, expediting and where required alternate solutions/intervention to resolve supplier issues.
* Monitor and report supplier performance against contracted requirements including expediting of open Purchase Orders, updating stakeholders and the ERP system.
* Proactively identify and mitigate risks to minimise project delays.
* Negotiate with suppliers to secure favourable contract solutions including negotiation on pricing, scope and terms and conditions as required.
* Sourcing suppliers/third party solutions working in conjunction with engineering teams where required/needed.
* Where required able to understand and work with engineering teams around technical artefacts (drawings, specifications, statements of work) to ensure compliance, to identify risks and issues.
* Experience working within and contributing to processes such as NPIs, concessions, deviations and change management in a technical/production environment.
* Able to build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders as well as suppliers
* Able to work collaboratively across functions and teams to achieve business objectives (e.g. technical, stores/logistics, operations, quality).
* Provide progress updates and supply chain feedback to internal stakeholders.
* Support supplier audits as and when required.
* Support the Procurement Manager in achieving departmental goals and undertake any other duties as appropriate within their competence, as required.
Qualifications and Experience:
* Significant experience in Procurement and Supply Chain Management.
* Demonstrable experience gained in a European production environment working with hitech engineering, ideally maritime and including R supporting delivery to deadlines on projects preferable within the marine engineering industry.
* Strong commercial acumen with excellent negotiation skills.
* Experience working with an ERP system, such as Infor LN.
* Willingness to support and embrace change in a fast-paced environment.
* Team-player with key communication skills.
* Analytical and problem-solving skills.
* Educated to degree level or a minimum qualified by experience
* Defence sector experience would be beneficial.
* MCIPS qualification is preferred but not essential.
Note: Due to the nature of work you will be required to be able to obtain BPSS clearance