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
- Strategic Procurement Specialist / Commodity Manager
- Contract position
- Hybrid working (twice a week in office)
- Location: Leamington Spa
Role Summary
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 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 degreeand/or CIPS desired.
Responsibilities
Integrates Procurement into the project management process:
1. Organizes, controls, monitors all Procurement activities within projects.
2.Participates in project/sales meetings as project core team member influencing at an early stage optimizing internal workflows/processes.
3.Establishes proper sourcing/Procurement processes controlling all resources/activities within projects.
4.Analyzes customer inquiries during bid preparation/opportunity management phases understanding functional needs including supplier innovations.
5.Supports project calculation with reliable material cost data.
6.Analyzes scope of supply/contract agreements conducting risk analyses introducing negotiation recommendations.
7.Analyzes sales/operations planning regarding starting/new projects assessing/control material costs ensuring Procurement involvement.
8.Drives procurement strategies/projects ensuring implementation.
9.Heads up contractual/price negotiations supporting specialist buyers responsible for particular material fields.
10.Clarifies internal indicators for project controlling compiling relevant information submitting qualified reports forwarding systematically all relevant procurement related 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 Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries we provide our clients engineering technical expertise they need 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 safely compliantly able support our clients