Procurement Specialist

2 days ago

Crawley, United Kingdom Diffusion Group Full time

Volution Ventilation UK

**Volution Ventilation UK**is a market leader in residential and commercial ventilation systems; our purpose is to provide healthy indoor air, sustainably. We are closely aligned with environmental, health, regulatory and consumer developments that are reshaping the world's expectation of how we live life indoors.

**Job Profile**:
The **Direct Procurement Specialist**is responsible for a myriad of processes including supply chain management, supplier evaluation, risk management, sourcing (domestic and international), ensuring product/material compliance to business needs, contract management and negotiation, continuous improvement, health and safety, benchmarking and industry trend management.

You will be required to provide full support, and report to, the **UK Group Direct Procurement Manager**, overseeing seven operating companies within the **Volution Ventilation UK Group (VVUK)**, which includes having responsibility for Direct Procurement spend for VVUK based brands, ensuring multi-site, multi-discipline projects are managed from conception to completion, in a timely manner, while tracking and reporting on all cost initiatives on a monthly basis.

The role would ideally suit someone with experience within the manufacturing industry, or similar, with an intermediate level of Excel, can effectively multi-task while working in a high pressure/fast paced environment, highly developed attention to detail, highly organised with the ability to effectively communicate, and influence, personnel at all levels.

The role will work within a team of six Procurement personnel, who will provide the necessary support through effective collaboration, training, and development. The team attends regular social events to harbour great working relationships within the Procurement function.

You will also be required to develop strong relationships with internal stakeholders, improving business relations, and you'll also need to establish effective relationships with external key stakeholders to ensure the needs of the business exceed expectation.

**As a Direct Procurement Specialist you will**:

- Through demonstration of good market insight, and the sourcing of goods and services required by the business within agreed project timescales, most cost effectively, meeting associated cost saving objectives and key stakeholder service levels requirements.
- In conjunction with relevant functional stakeholders, actively participate in supplier Key Process Indicator (KPIP) reviews, ensuring effective service levels and ongoing supplier management of Key Spend categories is maintained/developed.
- Perform all Procurement related activities including pre-qualification of suppliers, negotiating supplier product/service terms, conditions, quality of goods, deadlines, expectations, and pricing.
- Identify areas of continuous improvement, driving, and actively participating, in departmental projects from conception to completion, actively monitoring and measuring progress, enabling enhanced performance and business excellence.
- Effectively monitor and measure supplier performance, and resolve issues, and concerns by utilising the Procurement generated Balanced Scorecard approach.
- Analyse, manage and track the various Procurement platforms utilised in order to mitigate the commercial impact to the business, and optimise the supply chain, ensuring internal processes and procedures are developed, in conjunction with all stakeholders, where required.
- Manage Purchase Price Variances maintaining accurate purchase and pricing records while ensuring effective root cause analysis is applied to mitigate the risk of recurrence.
- Forecasting, tracking and reporting of UK cost saving activity on a monthly basis.
- Analyse industry and demand trends and support management with the development and implementation of sourcing Procurement Strategies.
- To be an instrumental force for increasing the use of more sustainable materials and packaging for products made in-house, and by third party manufacturers.

**To be successful in this role you will have**:

- Minimum 3 years proven work experience as a Direct Procurement Specialist, or similar role.
- Sound working knowledge of purchasing systems, processes and technologies.
- Approachable and flexible, able to adjust/flex to all situations and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Must be highly numerate, and possess excellent analytical, verbal and written skills.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills, ensuring appropriate admin taken care of in a timely manner.
- Already developed good Negotiation and Persuasion skills.
- Willingness to travel regularly between Southern UK sites on a regular basis.
- Proven ability to be self-motivated, and be self-sufficient in taking the lead and making proposals and/or decisions.

**Desirable (but not required)**:

- Procurement experience from the Ventilation/HVAC industry.
- Experience of procurement strategic/proc

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