Procurement Specialist

4 months ago


Skelmersdale, United Kingdom GPW Recruitment Full time

**_Job title: _**Procurement Specialist

**_ Reference:_** E112833

**_ Location: _**Skelmersdale

**_ Duration_**: Permanent

**_ Start date: _**ASAP

**_ Salary: _**£40,000 pa to £45,000 pa

Procurement Specialist required in Skelmersdale for a specialist manufacturer,

a highly successful global business.

They offer turnkey design, engineering and manufacturing solutions for non-standard client requirements throughout a range of industries.

Responsibilities as the Procurement Specialist
- Ensuring adherence to all company policies and prevailing business regulations
- Supporting Supply Chain Project Managers and any other budget holder with lead time, technical and costing inquiries
- Seeking out the most efficient source of supply in line with Supply Chain and Business requirements.
- Ensuring that the supply base is tuned in with long term vision and objectives and can provide the innovation and flexibility that customers demand

Main duties as the Procurement Specialist:

- Provide timely, costing and lead time information for goods and services to internal stakeholders within an area of individual specialisation.
- Ensure that Terms and Conditions of Purchase are used in all contracts for supply.
- Specifically maintain or improve Terms of Payment in line with ongoing business requirements.
- Establish Contracts of Supply and Pricing Agreements where applicable.
- Maintain all relevant cost and lead time information required for all major business processes.
- Source and evaluate new suppliers where required and as part of a continuous improvement philosophy
- Provide the Purchasing Supervisor and Regional Supply Chain Manager with performance reports on a when required basis
- Attending all company meetings requiring procurement input within your category specialism
- Chairing Key Supplier Meetings
- Other appropriate activities as defined by supply chain management

Knowledge, skills and abilities required by the Procurement Specialist:

- Communicate effectively at all levels of the business
- Be a champion for procurement and related processes with the organization
- Leverage group spends and achieve the lowest Total Acquisition Cost
- Develop and guide suppliers within a specific category of spend ,towards providing added value processes, products and services
- Negotiate with suppliers, on your own or as part of a team

Education required by the Procurement Specialist:

- Degree level in a business, engineering or an equivalent discipline preferred
- Certification in APICS preferred

The Procurement Specialist wil need experience of:

- Working within a Procurement environment
- Working with numbers and at times, high levels of technical detail
- .Proficiency with MS Word, and MS Excel
- Team based problem solving

Benefits as the Procurement Specialist include:

- Salary to £45,000 pa
- Auto-enrolment pension scheme
- Life insurance 4x basic annual salary
- 24 days holiday + bank holidays
- 4% Pension
- Access to lifestyle benefits website
- Access to well-being programmes
- Free parking on site
- Contractual Hours 39 hours per week
- Hybrid working available after completion of probation.

On offer as the Procurement Specialist
- Salary £40,000 to £45,000 pa based on experience
- 39 hour working per week
- Holidays 24 days per annum
- 4% Pension


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