Circa £50,000 per annum bonus benefits Oxfordshire (Hybrid) Permanent Your New Role: Our client is a rapidly growing R&D organisation based in the outskirts of Oxford. They are looking for an ambitious Procurement Manager to join their already established Procurement team. This is a varied position, a crucial hire to achieving cost efficiencies, inventory levels and ensuring high customer satisfaction. You will work in a heavily agile environment, where you will work cross functionally with sales, marketing, R&D and production. You will lead a small team of 3, with the goal to grow over time, mentoring and guiding the team. Reassuring and sourcing supplier relationships, who provide quality and reliability is essential, in a cost effective manner. Continuous improvement is also a key aspect of this position, looking at the performance of policies and procedures and implementing/pivoting more effective ways of working. You will also be required to report on procurement performance to senior management. Ensuring Your Success Ideally, you will have prior experience within procurement management, ideally within an R&D based company. It is essential to have prior team management skills, with the ability to recruit and develop. Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to negotiate and influence is also key. Strong commercial accnum and financial awareness is a must. You will be a natural problem solver who is highly organised and has strong attention to detail. CIPS is highly desirable. In Return Other than a strong salary, bonus and benefits, you will be working in a highly innovative and rapidly growing organisation. There is plenty of scope for progression.