NES Fircroft are currently recruiting for a Procurement Specialist to work with our client, who are a global, industry leader in power technology.
Strategic Procurement Specialist / Commodity Manager
Contract position
Hybrid working (twice a week in office)
Location: Leamington Spa
We seek an experienced Procurement individual highly motivated and self-driven to:
* Lead sourcing activities and negotiations for low to high value aerospace and industrial type components to optimize cost opportunities, contract coverage, and secure supply continuity.
* Undertake contractual and price negotiations with new and existing suppliers to mitigate commercial risk and optimise commercial advantage for current and future programmes.
* Carry out in depth cost breakdowns analysis (including cost estimation) and negotiate the lowest TCA in order to contribute to the divisional cost saving targets.
* Drive cost reduction and resourcing programmes to support strategy execution ensuring impact on existing supply chains are managed.
* Develop and deliver robust and integrated Commodity and Supplier strategies to provide supply chains capable of providing business needs across all stakeholder areas.
* Ensure a close cooperation with internal customers to ensure customer care and early involvement.
What You Bring
* Ability to work in a complex, fast changing global organisational environment.
* 10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing/commodity management.
* Outstanding Excel skills.
* Outstanding communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
* Excellent commercial, contractual, and project management acumen.
* Familiarity with component manufacturing processes and quality.
* Knowledge of working with a global supplier base, in a matrix environment.
* Bachelor’s degree required; Masters degree and/or CIPS desired.
Responsibilities
* Integrates Procurement in the project management process and organizes, controls and monitors all Procurement activities in a project.
* Participates in project/sales meetings as project core team member to exert a shaping influence at an early stage and to optimize internal workflows and processes.
* Establishes proper sourcing and Procurement processes and controls all Procurement resources and activities in the project.
* Analyses customer inquiries during bid preparation / opportunity management phases and exactly understands the customer's functional needs in order to include (supplier) innovations.
* Supports project calculation with reliable material cost data.
* Analyses scope of supply and contract agreements, carries out risk analyses and introduces negotiation recommendations.
* Analyses sales and operations planning in respect of starting / new projects, assessing and controlling of material costs within the whole project business in order to ensure the involvement of Procurement.
* Drives Procurement strategies in projects and ensures their implementation.
* Heads up contractual and price negotiations and/or supports the specialist buyers responsible for particular material fields.
* Clarifies internal indicators for project controlling and compiling all relevant information to submit qualified reports.
* Forwards systematically all relevant Procurement related project information.
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