Purchasing Manager

Location: Leicester

Salary: £30k-£35k

My client is a large manufacturing business that is looking for a Purchasing Manager to join their team. The right candidate must have experience in a comparable industry.

Purchasing Manager – Job Role:

• Participates in the review of vendor and customer contracts by outlining requirements and considerations. Identifies/negotiates cost savings
• Reviews materials related data analyses. Ensures accuracy of inventory through team management
• Directs the activities of supply chain staff and is responsible for planning, budgeting, and maintaining costs for a broad functional area
• Drives supply chain management strategies to deliver
• Knowledge of supply bases for both EMEA, LATAM, and Asia for Furniture components
• A full end to end understanding of the process for ERP/MRP
• Experience of managing the whole process of material supply essential
• Participates with other senior managers in establishing corporate strategic plans and objectives.
• Drives supply chain management strategies to deliver customer requirements and maintain MDK’s financial competitiveness.
• Coach, mentor and develop team to exceed department KPIs.
• Ensure optimum stock holding to exceed KPI goals.
• Responsible for margin enhancement through strategic purchasing and supplier relationship management.
• Develop the front end of purchasing to be agile, tactical and deliver cost savings through supply chain diversification.
• Develop and implement supply chain risk assessment and management.
• Dynamically negotiate supplier costs and enable more competitive pricing.
• Ensure new and current suppliers are introduced, approved and certified effectively
• Ensure orders to suppliers enable shipments to us on time and in full.
• Ensure freight partners deliver a cost effective and timely service.
• Analysis of data to ensure efficient stocking policies that deliver commercial benefits
• Analysis of reporting metrics to manage the external supply base.
• Support the introduction of new products from existing and new suppliers.
• Develop and leverage lean principles and digital solutions to continuously improve departmental efficiencies.
• As an advocate of change, to perform other reasonable duties that may be required by the company.

Purchasing Manager – Person Requirements:

• Hands on with managing strategic suppliers
• Strong analytical skills; able to draw conclusions and manage actions
• Good communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally
• Astute commercial acumen and strong negotiating skills
• 3 years + management experience
• 5 years of supply chain and supplier management
• Delivering cost savings and supply chain diversification
• Demonstrated success in change leadership with empathy
• Comfortable and competent with ERP platforms
• Lean Management Tools, including Value Stream Mapping and Kaizen events.
• Six Sigma Proficient, Green or Black Belt is desirable but not essential