Group Procurement Manager

Salary: Up to 65,000

Location: Stevenage

Benefits:

Company bonus of up to 2,500Pension of up to 14%Hybrid approach to workingPaid overtimeUp to 15 days flexi leave25 days annual leave (plus holiday purchase)Fantastic site facilities, including subsidised meals, free car parking and gym on site at StevenageExcellent career progression and development opportunitiesAbout the Opportunity:

Our client is an award-winning company; committed to providing an inclusive working environment where our employees can be themselves and everyone has equal opportunity to reach their full potential. They value and know that a diverse community makes for greater innovation and brings a breadth of skills, experience and perspectives.

An opportunity has arisen for a procurement Professional to join the Group Procurement Category Management team. You will bring your procurement experience and knowledge to ensure effective category management in the mechanical and electromechanical components categories, where you will build and implement category strategies and supplier relationships.

You will manage the suppliers to deliver innovation and performance to the business. Your duties will include

Work with your customers as a business partner to understand expectations for the category and develop a keen understanding of the needs for mid term systems development and production.Develop an extensive knowledge of your supplier market and handle market risks and opportunities to support business.Assess the current performance of the category, identifying and addressing the gaps with the business needs and performance expectations.Develop your category strategy and a full strategic execution plan to achieve the objectives of this category, gaining key collaborator sign off.Source new products and own the prospection, evaluation and approval of new suppliers.Negotiate and coordinate the execution of frame contracts with suppliers.Support the buyers to run the competitions, negotiations in conformance with the strategy and to deliver optimum value for the BusinessBe responsible for the supplier relationship to ensure their capability to fulfil the forecast demand and to improve on Time, on Cost, on Quality performance.Lead the supplier risks and the mitigation actions plan to support the roadmap.Support procurement cohesion across Group

Requirements:

CIPS qualified procurement professional with experience of direct procurement in high technology industrial companies.Previous experience of working collaboratively with international teams is a bonus.You will have previous experience of delivering a procurement category strategy and be able to work in partnership with colleagues and supplies to deliver results.

If you are interested in this position, then please contact myself via: (phone number removed) / (url removed) for more information.