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Procurement Specialist
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We are seeking a highly skilled Procurement Specialist to join our team at Volution Group. As a key member of our procurement function, you will be responsible for providing support to the UK Head of Procurement and contributing to the development of our procurement strategy.
Your primary focus will be on direct procurement spend for VVUK based brands, requiring regular interaction with site and functional personnel to lead cross-functional and site sourcing initiatives. You will also be responsible for project managing multi-site, multi-discipline cost initiatives, tracking and reporting them monthly.
To succeed in this role, you will need to possess strong analytical, influencing, planning, organizing, and implementation skills. Experience within the manufacturing industry or similar is highly desirable, as is an intermediate level of Excel proficiency. You will also need to be able to effectively multi-task while working in a high-pressure/fast-paced environment, have highly developed attention to detail, and be highly organized.
Key Responsibilities- Source 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.
- Be an instrumental force for increasing the use of more sustainable materials and packaging for products made in-house and by third-party manufacturers.
- Ensure all procurement activity undertaken fits within the overall Procurement Strategy and according to the centralized Procurement Policies.
- Ability to travel to key suppliers at short notice to resolve emerging supply problems.
- Manage Purchase Price Variances maintaining accurate purchase and pricing records while ensuring effective root cause analysis is applied to mitigate the risk of recurrence.
- Preparation of contracts and tender management, ensuring implementation within appropriate timescales.
- Identify areas of continuous improvement, driving, and actively participating in departmental projects from conception to completion.
- Effectively monitor and measure supplier performance, and resolve issues and concerns by utilizing the Procurement generated Balanced Scorecard approach.
- Minimum 3 years proven work experience as a Procurement Specialist, or similar role.
- Good working knowledge of purchasing strategies.
- Sound working knowledge of purchasing systems, processes and technologies.
- Willingness to travel regularly between Southern UK sites on a regular basis.
- Procurement experience from the Ventilation/HVAC industry would be an added advantage, but not essential.
- Experience of procurement process implementation.
- Experience of e-Procurement tools.
- Salary: £35,000 - £41,500 depending on experience
- Annual leave – 25 days plus bank holidays
- Pension - auto-enrolment after 3 months of service
- Health Assured Wisdom Employee Assistance Programme
- Boost Works Online discount platform for supermarkets and retailers etc.
- Company Employee Referral Scheme - up to £500
- Quarterly Volution Values Award - £100
- Ongoing training & development
