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PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
As a Sourcing Manager, you will play a key strategic role in strengthening Milliken's Sourcing function by identifying, developing, and managing suppliers who deliver value, innovation, and resilience. You will influence the commercial direction of your specific areas while partnering closely with operations, engineering, finance, and global sourcing teams to drive cost optimisation, supplier excellence, and sustainable sourcing practices.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building strong supplier relationships, negotiating impactful agreements, and shaping the future of how we buy.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
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Global purchasing team
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Plant Leader and Operations team
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All cross functional support teams planning, warehouse, safety
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Corporate teams
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Suppliers
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Legal
PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES
Integral Member of the Management team
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Understand the business strategy and contribute effectively to achieve organisational goals
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Align vendor strategy in accordance with business strategy
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Participate in period business review meeting
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Assist Business achieve targets and goals
Integral Member of European Purchasing Team
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Participate in quarterly group meetings
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Offer support to other Purchasing areas if required
Identify Opportunities to Save Cost and Add Value
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Question why we use the products/services we currently do to identify and offer alternate product/service offerings to the business that will save cost or add value to current offering
New Business Opportunities
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Advise relevant person of any potential new business opportunity that you may discover, whether it be in your local business or any other Milliken business
Networking
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Attend events to gain knowledge and benchmark other companies
Purchasing Education
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Ensure all relevant associates are trained to enable them to place orders with suppliers in accordance with Milliken's Purchasing Policy
Police the Procurement System
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Ensure the Milliken Purchasing Policy is adhered to and report any violation
Collaboration with Lead Buyers
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Collaborate with US and European buyers any new business opportunity or purchasing initiative and vice versa to the local Business team
Travel management
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Develop travel strategy
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Ensure communication to travel provider and associates to comply with Milliken safety and budget strategies
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Monitor performance including quality, cost, compliance KPI's for Europe
Fleet management (Cars)
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Develop car policy in conjunction with Health and Safety and HR team
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Ensure communication to car provider and associates to comply with Milliken safety and budget strategies
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Monitor performance including quality, cost and compliance KPI's
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Ensure legislation is adhered to and consider environmental impacts
Responsibilities
Suppliers
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Identify ethical suppliers
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Manage supplier relationships
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Price negotiation
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Quality
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Sustainable purchasing
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Claims
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Delivery
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Audits to include ethical purchasing and slave labour procedures
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Contracts
Systems
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Purchase order approval
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Monitoring invoice queries
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Forecasting
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