Procurement Specialist

1 week ago

Warwickshire UK, West Midlands, United Kingdom Randstad Enterprise Full time

Job Title: Procurement Specialist

Location: Warwick, Hybrid



About us


Consultants on Demand: a consultancy start-up with global backing.


Imagine Consultants on Demand: a consultancy service offered by Randstad Sourceright across all our clients in the UK and Ireland. Imagine enjoying the dynamic culture of being a consultant across many industries and markets whilst being part of a global company in a permanent job. It’s a start-up-like environment backed by global security and continuous development.

You can shape your career with us - and grow - by getting the opportunity to work with a number of our clients as well as having access to the continuous learning and development opportunities that RSR has to offer. We encourage our consultants to become pioneers in this space, helping us to evolve the offering for both our clients and our talent.


Imagine doing this together with a community of professionals from different backgrounds and expertise within the consultancy and across the overall RSR global community. Imagine Consultants on Demand.


Consultants on Demand sits within Randstad Sourceright: the global talent strategic partner specialising in talent management solutions including Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Managed Service Programs (MSP), Integrated Talent Solutions including this brand-new consultancy offering.




Overview


We seek an experienced Procurement individual highly motivated and self-driven to:


  • Lead sourcing activities and negotiations for low to high value aerospace and industrial type components to optimise cost opportunities, contract coverage, and secure supply continuity.
  • Undertake contractual and price negotiations with new and existing suppliers to mitigate commercial risk and optimise commercial advantage for current and future programmes.
  • Carry out in depth cost breakdowns analysis (including cost estimation) and negotiate the lowest TCA in order to contribute to the divisional cost saving targets
  • Drive cost reduction and resourcing programmes to support strategy execution ensuring impact on existing supply chains are managed.
  • Develop and deliver robust and integrated Commodity and Supplier strategies to provide supply chains capable of providing business needs across all stakeholder areas.
  • Ensure a close cooperation with internal customers to ensure customer care and early involvement.




Responsibilities


  • Participates in project/sales meetings as project core team member to exert a shaping influence at an early stage and to optimise internal workflows and processes.
  • Establishes proper sourcing and Procurement processes and controls all Procurement resources and activities in the project.
  • Analyses customer inquiries during bid preparation / opportunity management phases and exactly understands the customer's functional needs in order to include (supplier) innovations.
  • Supports project calculation with reliable material cost data.
  • Analyses scope of supply and contract agreements, carries out risk analyses and introduces negotiation recommendations.
  • Analyses sales and operations planning in respect of starting / new projects, assessing and controlling material costs within the whole project business in order to ensure the involvement of Procurement.
  • Drives Procurement strategies in projects and ensures their implementation.
  • Heads up contractual and price negotiations and/or supports the specialist buyers responsible for particular material fields.
  • Clarifies internal indicators for project controlling and compiling all relevant information to submit qualified reports.
  • Forwards systematically all relevant Procurement related project information.




Essential Skills & Experience Required:


  • Ability to work in a complex, fast changing global organisational environment.
  • 10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing/commodity management.
  • Outstanding Excel skills.
  • Outstanding communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Excellent commercial, contractual, and project management acumen.
  • Familiarity with component Manufacturing processes and Quality
  • Knowledge of working with a global supplier base, in a matrix environment.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; Masters degree and/or CIPS desired



What we offer:


We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools that are personalised to meet the needs of your reality—to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.

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