Category Specialist

At Essentra Components we are constantly growing, evolving and trying to better ourselves. This is to stay ahead of our competitors, and continue to be the best at what we do. Subsequently because of this, we are now searching for a key individual to help us design, improve, support and make our processes more agile. We are looking for an experienced Procurement Specialist who has industry experience ideally in manufacturing or components. You will be providing expertise in category management and procurement activities across the growing Essentra Components business. Whoever is sucessful in this opportunity will work closely with divisional group and business teams.

**Job Requirements**
- Implement and manage robust strategic (1-3 year) commodity plans with all relevant stakeholders
- Gather relevant market intelligence to support the business with insightful commercial information
- Work with key stakeholders to define opportunities and deliver the benefits
- Execute value for money decision making through spend leverage, cost benchmarking and through the negotiation of favourable terms and fact-based recommendations
- Ensure and mitigate business risk across the commodity portfolio
- Support the NPI process and develop strong relationships with the relevant Essentra Product Manager
- Manages and develops the commodity area with an emphasis on continuous improvement
- Ensures adherence Procurement’s standards and policy
- Monitors supplier compliance with Essentra governance requirements
- Take responsibility for tracking both cost saving and price adjustment reporting against budget
- Coordinate, monitor and report on all data and pricing changes
- Actively promotes Procurement to the wider business to ensure leading practice is adopted, delivered and recognised

**Education, Qualifications and Experience**

**Essential**
Fluent English
Industrial/ manufacturing experience
Negotiation experience
Strong presentation/ communication skills
Sound commercial understanding
Strong numeracy and analytic skills
Customer service driven
Task orientated with ability to own and complete complex tasks

**Desirable**
Goods for resale experience
Procurement experience within a category-based role
Level 4 CIPS qualification
Component purchasing experience
Commercial experience
Microsoft D365 experience
Experience of working in a multi-national business

**The position can be based in either Kidlington, UK / Istanbul, Turkey / Nettetal, Germany / Lodz, Poland / Houston, US.**
**An attractive salary is on offer along with pension and further benefits.**

We are looking for individuals who enjoy working as part of a close team, are passionate about what they do and who strive to make a difference. We are always looking to better ourselves and are keen to recruit individuals who like to innovate and improve processes.
Essentra Components is an established business with a focus on continuous improvement, sustainability and plans for further industry expansion, as such it is an exciting time to be joining the business.

As part of our recruitment process you will be required to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. Documentary evidence will be requested at interview stage.