Materials Manager

2 weeks ago

Chadderton, United Kingdom The Guinness Partnership Full time

**About Us**
The Guinness Partnership provides services to more than 140,000 customers in our 65,000 homes nationwide. With a turnover of £360.5m and a truly national presence, Guinness is one of the leading housing providers in the sector.

Guinness Property provide repairs and maintenance services to The Guinness Partnership. Our national teams deliver rapid-response housing repairs, maintenance, and improvement services to ensure that our customers’ homes are safe and maintained to high standard.

**About the role**
We have an exciting opportunity for a Materials Manager to join our team in Oldham on a permanent, full-time basis. This role has a Hybrid working style where you will be expected to work a minimum of 2 days in the office.

Reporting to the Head of Business Support you’ll be required to manage the process and oversee the control for material usage & costs to ensure our operational requirements are met. You will ensure that material usage is recorded to prove the value for moneyfor our repair’s services, and is fully legitimate and transparent in cost, payment, and usage.

**What we’re looking for
**We’re a customer-focussed organisation so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. You’ll not only be an experienced manager, but you’ll also have great customer service skills and a willingness to go the extra mile to getthe job done.

You’ll also be able to demonstrate the Key Responsibilities:

- Assist in scoping, managing and delivering a portfolio of materials suppliers, liaising with internal stakeholders, to ensure quality and availability. Produce detailed reports to ensure transparency in spend and visibility of goods used.
- Develop and maintain relationships with the Procurement Team and suppliers to ensure contracts meet the needs of Guinness and our customers and provide value for money.
- Be the point of contact for operations for supplier performance and the continuous improvement of supply.
- Monitor supplier compliance daily for price & quality.
- Use reports to review materials usage regularly and engage with operatives to ensure the products required (and only those required) are on their vans and suppliers are providing the right products.
- Review stock availability reports regularly to ensure suppliers always hold mandated stock available in branches for collection and van replenishment.
- Coordinate stock takes, audits and reconciliations.
- Manage price changes for existing and new products. Ensure catalogues reflect need and non-catalogue products are controlled effectively.
- Develop appropriate SLAs and KPIs in line with Guinness’s requirements. Ensure supplier financial information is accurate and transactions are visible in appropriate systems.
- Manage processes to ensure invoices on hold are mínimal and all transactions are accounted for and reportable at operative level.

**Essential Skills / Experience**
- Proven experience working in a Purchasing or Procurement environment.
- Experience of supplier and stakeholder management.
- Experience of managing a portfolio of projects, working to tight deadlines, and with a range of different customers.
- Knowledge of the Accuserv system or equivalent.
- Good attention to detail.
- Good analytical and negotiating skills.
- Positive attitude with a solution orientated approach.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Microsoft office including Word and Excel.
- Demonstrate the Guinness Behaviours.

**Essential Qualifications**
- Educated to A level or equivalent level of competence.

**Desired Membership**
- Member of Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply

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