Just Recruitment is partnering with a growing, industry-leading organisation in Ipswich to recruit a Purchasing Supervisor.
Working collaboratively within a fast paced, team orientated Purchasing function, you will take responsibility for taking the highly successful Purchasing team to the next level of procurement. Reporting to the Purchasing Manager, the emphasis of the role is to work with existing team members to build key skills, and to improve current processes. It will involve resolving daily issues, building and maintaining supplier relationships and helping to build the future purchasing team.
Duties include:
Primary responsibility for the daily management of specific team members.
Provide structured training and guidance to pro-actively encourage individual and team development, ensuring team succession planning.
Empower the team to take ownership of their roles/responsibilities.
Responsible for managing up and organising updates/meetings with the Team Manager.
Actively work with other supervisors and management to ensure a consistent approach within the department.
Resolution of daily issues-including data collation of issues.
Manage supplier relationships and performance.
Lead on supplier lead time reviews and relevant internal updates.
Present data on monthly spend and KPIs, and non-conformance tracking.
Lead on demand planning, working with external sales team and suppliers to provide forecasting.
Participate in pricing reviews.
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