Global Purchase Lead

5 days ago


UK, UK, United Kingdom GMA Technical Recruitment Ltd Full time

Global Purchase Head – Rotating equipment

Excellent salary and package (DOE)

Hybrid role, with international travel

The Company

GMA Technical are delighted to be working in partnership with one of the world’s leading rotating equipment OEM and service businesses.

With locations and subsidiaries around the world, they are looking to add to heir senior leadership team a Global Purchase Lead, which will be based from their UK head office (Hybrid)

The Role

As the Global Purchase Lead, you will be responsible for developing a global sourcing strategy, in order to achieve cost reduction and quality improvement of product performance across various categories such as electric motors, couplings, bearings, seals, engines, control panels to name a few.

Reporting to global C-Suite you will look to deliver value across the whole business supply chain across all equipment and materials with an estimated spend of between £25m - £30m a year.

The key aim for the role is to rationalise, improve and strengthen the supply chain forming partnerships with suppliers making improvement in

  • Price
  • Quality
  • Commercial terms
  • Flexibility
  • Reliability
  • On Time delivery

Given the nature of the role it will involve travel across EMEA, APAC, USA and in some instance the far east.

The Candidate

We are looking for candidates

  • That are preferably based in the South of England
  • That are from a high value rotating equipment background (manufacturing)
  • That have a number of years’ experience in a senior purchasing/procurement position
  • That are innovative, creative and entrepreneurial in approach where you can demonstrate a successful implementation of a procurement strategy.
  • That are data driven and decisive in decision making capability.

This position sits within a true market leading rotating equipment OEM, where you will have significant responsibility and autonomy in shaping their procurement and purchasing strategy.



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