Description
Company Overview
NES Fircroft are currently recruiting for a Procurement Specialist to work with our client, who are a global, industry leader in power technology.
Position Details
- Contract position
- Hybrid working (twice a week in office)
- Location: Leamington Spa
Job Summary
We seek an experienced Procurement individual highly motivated and self-driven to:
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
Qualifications & Skills Required
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
Additional Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Integrates Procurement into the project management process; organizes, controls, monitors all Procurement activities within projects.
- Participates as project core team member during project/sales meetings; exerts shaping influence at an early stage optimizing internal workflows/processes.
- Establishes proper sourcing/procurement processes; controls all procurement resources/activities within projects.
- Analyses customer inquiries during bid preparation/opportunity management phases; understands customer's functional needs including supplier innovations.
- Supports project calculation using reliable material cost data.
- Analyses scope of supply/contract agreements; carries out risk analyses introducing negotiation recommendations.
- Analyses sales/operations planning regarding starting/new projects assessing/control material costs throughout entire project business ensuring procurement involvement.
- Drives procurement strategies within projects ensuring their implementation.
- Heads up contractual/price negotiations or supports specialist buyers responsible for specific material fields.
- Clarifies internal indicators for project controlling compiling relevant information submitting qualified reports.
- Forwards systematically all relevant procurement related project information.
Company Background
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining ,and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries we provide clients with engineering/technical expertise needed wherever whenever it is needed . We offer contractors far more than traditional recruitment service supporting everything from securing visas/work permits providing market-leading benefits packages/accommodation ensuring they can safely/compliantly support our clients .