Purchasing & Supply Jobs In Hampshire

JOB TITLE: Category Manager
STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNIT: Supply Chain
REPORTING TO:Group Procurement Director

Purpose of the Job
The Category Manager will be accountable for all strategic sourcing of goods and/or services in the specific categories assigned to them for the whole Group. This role is responsible for critical complex categories managing procurement spend ranging between £10m and £30m.

Key Activities:
Strategic Sourcing
" Work with relevant business owners to understand the specific business requirements and their implications on the procurement cycle.
" Operates within the marketplace in order to assess and proactively leverage its developments, trends and changes.
" Develop a sustainable, long term and cost effective sourcing strategy for the specific categories that supports the business in achieving its objectives, enables the business to leverage its buying power in the marketplace and delivers value-for-money.
" Communicates effectively the sourcing strategy to all relevant stakeholders in order to get their commitment and support while demonstrating the value it can bring.
Sourcing Execution.
" Commercial strategy definition: define the most appropriate commercial strategy to deliver specific procurement initiatives in terms of requirement structure, supplier base, tools, technology and terms of reference.
" Options assessment: assess the supplier's responses in terms of total cost of ownership, challenge suppliers when appropriate, communicates effectively with business owners to identify benefits and/or issues.
" Supplier negotiation: negotiate commercial terms with suppliers in order to maximise value-for-money.
" Contract definition: define robust contracts from a commercial, risk management and technical point of view.
" Service level agreements development: develop performance focused SLA's and include them in the contracts.

Supplier Relationship Management
" Manage key suppliers to ensure maximum value delivered. Key suppliers need to be managed as business partners in terms of:
o Delivery performance
o Service level agreement compliance
o Demand planning
o Quality assurance and audit
o Improvement opportunities
o Long term planning
o Operational excellence initiatives
" Contact future possible suppliers and continuously benchmark them against the existing supplier base.

Stakeholder Management
" Work with business owners to proactively anticipate issues and/or identify future opportunities.
" Work with business owners to identify solutions and action plans to develop savings initiatives linked closely to the business objectives.
" Partner with Finance to ensure correct reporting of spend and savings data.
" Communicate effectively savings and value delivered by procurement.

Organisation Development
" Manage and develop less experienced procurement professionals in terms of know-how and competencies.
" Develop best practice and design procurement tools and techniques.
" Promote continuous improvement within the sourcing team and function through leadership, vision and team development.

Qualifications and Experience

" Graduate calibre
" Proven experience of successfully management a procurement /category management service, operating in a manufacturing environment. Your experience may be from one or more of the following listed categories, but this is not an exhaustive list:
o Engineering
o Raw Materials
o Logistics & Distribution
o Indirect Services
" A proven track record of influencing business owners in high value procurement projects in a commercial environment.
" Knowledge and understanding of specific market dynamics and trends, including:
o Market drivers;
o Key players (supplier, customers);
o Regulation;
o Technology; and
o Overall PESTLE elements

" Proven experience in the application of:
o Procurement tools and techniques;
o Value Analysis;
o Cost Engineering;
o Process Mapping;
o Tender Management (including designing effective Service Level Agreements); and
o Risk Management.
o Overall PESTLE elements

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

The role is based at the offices in Basingstoke but will require regular travel to various sites e.g. Poland & France and also various Warehouses based all over Europe and perhaps occasional travel further abroad - average will be one trip per month. This might be more during initial induction period.

The role will have one direct report initially - Logistics Operations Coordinator (this person started new in this role in April - after fulfilling a senior sales coordinator role within the company for two years). This may increase with time.

You will have excellent communication skills and proven experience in coordinating with various departments: Material Planning and Control, IT, Operations Planning, Warehouses etc. You must be able to arrange and lead cross functional projects. In addition able to audit processes and identify weaknesses.

Proven experience in liaising/auditing/managing warehouses processes.

The direct report - logistics operations coordinator - speaks fluent English and Italian with some French and will maintain main contact with relevant warehouses etc requiring these languages. This new role - will have to speak fluent English and German - as he/she will be mainly dealing with the German warehouses/contacts; amongst others.

Additional:
- Must have a logistics qualification and a sound understanding in Logistics, including import, export requirements and Incoterms.
- Must be able to calculate holding costs, operations costs and packaging loops. Also be a competent writer of customer's communications.
- Experience with BPCS (MRP Systems), EDI, and Barcode labelling would be a huge advantage.

Salary and benefits:

To the person along with the following.
£600 Annual Flexible Benefit Pot, Dental, Increased Cashplan, Medical, Lunch Vouchers and/or buy holiday with this. Level 1 Healthshield Cash Plan for all
Excellent Occupational Sickpay, Income Protection, Life Assurance and Pension Scheme.
Childcare Vouchers; Free Parking; Employee Assistance Programme; Long Service Awards, Flexi-Time, 25 Days Holiday; Weekly Office Fruit; Non-contractual Christmas Bonus etc.

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

Duties;

• To place purchase orders and action MAX data as required.
• To manage suppliers to achieve improvements in cost, quality and delivery in accordance with business KPI’s.
• To develop and maintain Life Cycle Management Plan for all products.
• To manage inventory in line with business objectives.
• To raise and process relevant documentation for returning defective parts to suppliers.
• To liaise as necessary with sub-contractors and materials control to ensure continuity of supply. Support IMT meetings and maintenance of Man Plans.
• To maintain MAX system, ensuring MRP purchasing-related data is accurate.
• To progress suppliers as required by MRP demand date
• To maintain purchase order status (by amendments)
• To report MRP data statistics to the Purchasing Manager on a weekly basis.
• To attend meetings as required.

Requirements;
• Full UK driving license.
• Experience buying electro mechanical or electronic components.
• Experience working within a sub-contract environment.
• In-depth knowledge of MRP/ERP systems
• Strong negotiation skills
• CIPS- desired but not essential
• Able to manage both internal stakeholders and external customers
• Good working knowledge on Excel and Word
• Experience within the avionics sector - not essential.

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