Purchasing & Supply Jobs In South West

Reporting into the Head of Operations you will be the Materials Manager for the business, ensuring best practice processes are developed. You will be responsible for applying, maintaining and improving lean manufacturing procedures, as well as play a lead role in developing processes whilst supporting the implementation of a new ERP solution.

We are one of the world's leading companies engaged in the development, delivery and support of leading-edge aerospace and defence systems in the air, on land and at sea. Our clients and partners trust us to deliver the mission-critical technology they need, and we trust our employees to draw on their ingenuity and passion to deliver those solutions. This leads to an empowering culture for our people. Our Leadership team is open, sharing plans for the next five years, driving retention by offering demanding, exciting work, and providing full guidance and mentoring.

As the Materials Manager your key responsibilities will include:
Manages the Master Production Schedule ensuring that an achievable plan is always in place that takes into consideration both materials and capacities.
Improve customer responsiveness by ensuring that appropriate demand solutions are found e.g. Forecasting/MPS/safety stocks
Develops implements and maintains policies, procedures and material control systems.
Ensures materials are ordered and in stock to meet customer requirements whilst maintaining optimum levels of inventory. Responsible for ensuring that ERP planning parameters are maintained in accordance with Company policy and that these parameters are reviewed to optimise operating costs and achieve customer satisfaction.
Drives analysis and evaluation of ERP data to ensure that material is optimised and financial performance improved.
Co-ordinates the efficient movement of materials by the most cost effective method
Develops and implements systems to improve material and information flows.
Ensure operational compliance with Company procedures and Quality requirements.
Identify and drive improvement initiative to reduce costs and improve on time delivery, work closely with other sites to share best practice and develop synergies.
Applies standard change control procedures and provides leadership in order to engage the team in continuously improving their performance.

As the Materials Manager your qualifications and experience should include:
Engineering/Manufacturing Degree or equivalent
Experience in a manufacturing/engineering capacity with solid experience, ideally within an Aerospace environment.
Experience of managing/leading a business unit or function either in a management or supervisory capacity.
Demonstrable experience of strategic input into a department and/or function.

What we expect from you:
Excellent communication skills so as to be able to explain functionality and benefits and manage key stakeholders both internal & external.
Sound financial and commercial knowledge and some experience of managing budgets, allocating costs, forecasting.
Good level of report writing and adept with most IT packages.
Be a leader, team player, coach and motivator and have a positive and ‘can do’ attitude on others.

This vacancy is being advertised by NCR (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR are those of an Employment Agency.

We are a leading aerospace and defence business unit within the Group, looking for a Commodity Manager with good engineering procurement experience. You will be responsible for designing and implementing commodity strategies for complex product ranges so experience purchasing best cost and quality commodities in a complex engineering environment is needed. Maintaining programme objectives principally, Cost, Quality, Schedule and contractual commitments. You will also liaise with the Programme Sourcing Managers to implement best practice sourcing decisions for their programmes. Having moved in to purpose built facilities and working on cutting edge programmes this is an opportunity to join a leading engineering company.

We are one of the world's leading companies engaged in the development, delivery and support of leading-edge aerospace and defence systems in the air, on land and at sea. Our clients and partners trust us to deliver the mission-critical technology they need, and we trust our employees to draw on their ingenuity and passion to deliver those solutions. This leads to an empowering culture for our people. Our Leadership team is open, sharing plans for the next five years, driving retention by offering demanding, exciting work, and providing full guidance and mentoring.

As a Commodity Manager your key experience and responsibilities will include:
Responsible for defining and implementing Commodity strategies to deliver cost benefit to the business and ensure continuity of supply.
Working with the nominated Commodity Buyer to ensure timely ingress of goods and services into the business.
Ability and experience to manages £15M of Commodity spend
To negotiates and implements supply contracts
Able to manage relationships with key suppliers
Analyses, interprets & leverages spend and performance data.
Researches the supply market and understands business drivers.
Manages the development of the commodity strategy.
Understands key supplier capability and capacity.
Manages the development of suppliers.
Identifies and monitors benefit delivery.
Delivers to, or betters, target benefit delivery.
Leads sourcing related improvement projects.
Manages large contracts through regular contract reviews with suppliers.
Manage the implementation of commodity strategies through close working relationships with the individual business functions.
Provides direction to the Commodity Buyers.

What we will expect from you:
Supplier Relationship management skills, negotiation, team working skills, interpersonal skills and an ability to manage commercial relationships. You will have initiative and drive and be commercially aware to drive business benefits and to deliver On Time in Full.

This vacancy is being advertised by NCR (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR are those of an Employment Agency.

ROLE & SCOPE OF POSITION

Responsible to the Procurement Manager the Buyer is responsible for planning and controlling allocated inventories via purchase order activities to meet defined programmes.
The Buyer will typically manage a core portfolio of 20 suppliers on a weekly contact basis with a further 100 on a monthly-annual contact basis.
Supplier portfolio will be of a predominantly mechanical base.
Typical spend will be between £5-10m pa. in line with department procedures and company objectives.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

Work within the hierarchy of department and company controls, maintaining ISO procedures at all times.

Process Engineering releases and purchase parts and services on a timely basis.

Locate, develop and manage suppliers locally and globally and to monitor and evaluate supplier performance. Take action and keep colleagues informed as appropriate.

Negotiate appropriate purchase contracts in line with company procedures in order to minimise divisional risk; lower total costs; reduce lead times and improve quality standards whilst satisfying customer needs.

Ensure that planning and control of specified inventory is maintained and appropriate action and information flowed out as required.

Initiate and maintain commercial purchase agreements as directed and required.

Ensure that the position integrates with and serves all other functions in the division.

Maintain and monitor department databases and records such as lead times, prices, safety stocks as required.

Cover absent colleagues as directed as directed by the Procurement Manager.

PERSON REQUIREMENTS

Able to produce consistently accurate work and meet deadlines with a minimum of supervision.

Able to reason for and introduce then sustain change in the supply chain.

Tenacious but able to see the “bigger picture”.

Excellent interpersonal skills and able to express clearly both verbally and in writing with suppliers, Engineers, Assembly fitters and Stores personnel.

Willing to travel and stay away for short periods on company business as required.

TRAINING / BACKGROUND / EXPERIENCE

Able to show relevant career progression with a minimum of 3yrs procurement experience in a relevant industry.

Experienced supplier negotiation, appraisal and management.

Experienced in both outward and inwardly facing supply chain management.

Able to organise and host supplier visits and meetings reporting as required.

Able to understand technical specifications and drawings.

Hold a minimum of level 4 CIPS qualification or equivalent.

Educated to A level standard and comfortable with I.T applications.

This vacancy is being advertised by NCR (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR are those of an Employment Agency.