Overview
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Location: Bradford, Barnstaple, Exeter, United Kingdom.
What You’ll Do
* Purchases for indirect material and services from major suppliers and strategic commodities.
* Manage the assigned indirect material supply base to ensure uninterrupted supply at optimum cost, quality, and service for each site (South Molton focus).
* Maintain strategic relationships and create new ones within the supply base.
* Balance supplier quality, delivery expectations, and cost reduction metrics for all indirect material purchases.
* Champion the assigned supply chain driven metrics and tracking.
* Manage indirect material supplier relationships and opportunities for cost out and product/supplier improvement, while ensuring adequate service levels.
* Negotiate with internal and external suppliers; conduct problem resolution and settle disputes; develop win-win solutions and positive relationships with tact and judgment.
* Identify opportunities and ensure compliance with existing corporate indirect material supply contracts; increase supply chain managed spend, cost reductions, and category leverage.
* Monitor new supplier add requests and consolidate spend into leveraged spend categories and contracts.
* Maintain all assigned current supplier contacts, business relationships and commercial responsibilities for the site.
* Develop and facilitate cost-out projects and commodity strategic actions; assist corporate teams with site projects.
* Facilitate supplier questions on accounts payable and support invoice resolutions and payment issues.
* Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to identify opportunities and achieve strategic goals.
* Develop applicable skills in processes and analyze total cost management drivers when developing cost outsourcing strategies.
Qualifications
* 2+ years’ experience in a supply chain or material management function; desirably within Aerospace.
Skills
* Expert knowledge in commodity strategies, deploying sourcing initiatives, and cost-out/supplier improvement programs.
* Demonstrated leadership and strategic thinking with commodity products and suppliers.
* Excellent communication, customer service, and interpersonal skills to engage diverse stakeholders, including senior management, operations, SCM personnel, and external suppliers.
* Knowledge of ERP system operations, interfaces, and enterprise reporting/data mining.
* Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
* Knowledge of commercial terms, contract terms, and conditions in a corporate setting.
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Other
Industries
* Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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