Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for a Procurement Manager on an initial 6 month Contract, located in Warwickshire.
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Role Summary
We seek an experienced Procurement individual highly motivated and self-driven to:
- Lead sourcing actives 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.
- 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
Requirements/ Skills
- 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
Our Company
Rubicon Consulting is a Talent management consultancy which helps you to optimise business performance and competitive advantage by choosing the right people first time