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**What you’ll do**:

- Provide day-to-day support to site Supply Chain and Procurement activities. Work with the local and global teams to aid to identify, develop, plan and program manage Supply Chain improvement programs inclusive of sourcing, supplier reductions, cost out and operational performance. Help perform all tactical and strategic site purchasing activities. To support the team such that it is engaged and accountable for ownership of customer solutions and has a passion for exceeding customer and employee expectations.- Support of SC team of tactical and strategic site purchasing activities to drive the business wide material procurement activity
- Participate Production Meeting’s, maintain and report site wide performance to drive increased customer satisfaction through performance
- The review of product shortages and prioritization with Supply Chain - to include capability to progress overdue purchase orders when required
- Create purchase orders based on MRP requirements and expedite orders with suppliers
- Aid SC team with Inventory management ownership activities and to target suppliers to minimize site stock holding through such initiatives to include review of open order book to include (but not limited to) the cancellation or re-scheduling of orders and to target key suppliers for potential
- Take ownership of Premium Freight tool updates and maintenance of costs records associated with premium freight
- Maintain production BOMs spreadsheet to aid production planning
- Assist with site ‘Cost Out’ initiatives. Help to identify and drive material cost savings through improved negotiation or re-sourcing, supporting reporting process.
- Deliver departmental objectives to achieve site goals
- Support operational performance of Supply Chain process and procedures
- Support cover cross departmental resources in their absence or as advised
- To assist SC team to identify continuous improvement in order to achieve departmental and company wide goals

**Qualifications**:
**Skills**:

- Material management knowledge
- Strong organizational and influencing capabilities
- 1st Class communication and presentation skills
- Negotiation skills
- Highly PC literate
- MRP, JIT, KanBan, EDI
- A positive ‘solution provider’ attitude
- Considerable responsibility and therefore calls for high levels of self-motivation
- Requires high degree of ownership and flexibility with a primary goal to satisfy customer requirements
- Good communication and team skills
- High levels of drive, enthusiasm and thoroughly enjoy trouble shooting and resolving day-to-day issues

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