The role is to ensure the 5 key values below are consistently met:
* Customer satisfaction
* Realisation of sales targets
* Optimisation of business processes associated with the control of inventories, WIP and supply to manufacturing
* Optimisation of logistics costs
* Supplier performance
what the role includes:
1. Manage the entire life cycle of sourcing and procurement projects, from planning and bid preparation to budget/forecasting, negotiation, invoicing and reporting.
2. Lead on the preparation and release of all customer quotations ensuring they have had input from all required functions, are accurate and can be delivered as stated.
3. Implement and maintain policies and procedures and ensure best practice procurement processes are continually developed.
4. Develop procurement strategies relating to all spend areas.
5. Develop and implement procedures or systems to evaluate and select suppliers.
6. Responsible, in conjunction with the Quality Director, for developing and implementing rules and management procedures that will aim to achieve the objectives of the supply chain, and be responsible for management settings in ERP and PLM software tools to optimise all data.
7. Manage supplier agreements by ensuring maintenance of a central register of contracts, pricing, details and documents
8. Monitor the sales forecasts and identify changes that would have an impact on suppl...