Purchasing Manager

Contract Type: Agency Temp (potential to go perm for the right person)

Salary / Benefits: Circa 60k

Job Elements

• Leading a small team to ensure that the correct materials are purchased at the correct price to ensure that production schedules can be achieved to meet customer requirements.
• Working in cross functional teams to ensure that NPIs are introduced on time.
• Monitoring supplier performance and working with them to make improvements.
• Working with and negotiating with suppliers to ensure that cost down targets are met.
• Driving cost down projects internally and externally to ensure that long term targets are met.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Proven experience of leading a team to deliver a procurement function that reaches OTIF targets whilst delivering cost savings.
• Experience with the manufacturing sector gained around direct materials ideally within a regulated industry.
• Experience of working with a global supply chain
• Ideally degree level education in a relevant subject and/or CIPS qualification.
• MRP experience essential
• Strong negotiation skills
• Excellent communications skills both written and oral
• Computer literate with Microsoft suite

Petrie Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers.