Senior Procurement Specialist

1 week ago


Leyland, Lancashire, United Kingdom Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited Full time

Your new company, a leading automotive manufacturing company, is seeking an experienced procurement professional to join their fast-paced team as they continue to succeed and dominate their market.

Your new role, Senior Buyer / Commodity Manager, will play a pivotal role in managing procurement / sourcing activity in a high-value spend area, ensuring that optimal value for money is achieved and key stakeholder relationships are managed effectively, all the while ensuring that quality standards are maintained.

The Senior Buyer / Commodity Manager will build key commercial relationships with suppliers, and you will also work with key internal stakeholders to ensure that Six Sigma projects are defined and implemented.

As a Commodity Manager, you will devise and implement appropriate commodity strategies for the short, medium and long-term. Striving to deliver cost savings, you will lead on a number of cost-reduction projects across key areas of commodity expenditure.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage procurement / sourcing activity in a high-value spend area, ensuring optimal value for money and quality standards are maintained.
  • Build key commercial relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
  • Devise and implement commodity strategies for the short, medium and long-term.
  • Lead on cost-reduction projects across key areas of commodity expenditure.
  • Work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure Six Sigma projects are defined and implemented.

Requirements:

  • Procurement experience gained within an automotive manufacturing or engineering environment.
  • Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills.
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Confident at negotiation and influencing.
  • Ideally, CIPS qualified or partially qualified.
  • Good ICT skills and able to pick up new systems quickly.


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