Fabrication Category Lead

1 month ago

Cookstown, United Kingdom CDE Group Full time
Job Description

About CDE

CDE exists to create our best world through bold engineering in the waste recycling and natural material processing industries. We move forward together, continuously creating to the highest global standards. We are always customer-focused, relentlessly innovating with a single purpose in mind:

 

To create our best world, a ton at a time.

CDE is the leading provider of wet processing solutions for the materials processing industry. Our equipment has applications across a wide range of materials and is delivering significant efficiencies in construction, demolition, and excavation waste recycling (CD&E), sand and aggregates, mining, industrial sands and environmental sectors. Working across five regions globally, CDE has been co-creating with customers for 30 years to deliver collaborative, imaginative and unique processing systems for over 2,000 successful projects.

We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy. And we help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible – with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before.

Our people are genuinely empowered to lead and deliver highly strategic and innovative projects. Elevating our employees is vitally important to us and we do this on both a professional and personal level through providing opportunity and challenge to all and cultivating a culture that values employee wellbeing and fun. Our Platinum status in the world-recognised Deloitte Best Managed Companies Awards, achieved for thirteen consecutive years is testament to this approach.

Our global headquarters and manufacturing centre of excellence are located in Northern Ireland, perfectly positioned to serve the UK and Ireland markets. The company also has teams based in Austria, France and Russia to serve the Europe and Russia markets; Dubai, UAE, to serve the MEA market; Ormeau, Australia to serve the Australasian market; as well as Texas, USA and Belo Horizonte, Brazil to effectively serve the vast Americas market.

Learn more about CDE www.cdegroup.com

About The Role

JOB PURPOSE:

Deliver procurement category excellence, lead, and provide procurement expertise in sourcing, contract and productivity to support a resilient supply chain strategy. Drive continuous improvement in procurement by optimise category cost saving and avoidance opportunities, consolidate tail spend, maximise value in quality and overall service level from supply base.

Responsibilities:

-        Develop and implement strategic category strategy for procurement

-        Identify strategic spend, develop long term contractual business relationship with key strategic suppliers

-        Consolidate tail spend of specific supply category, maximise value

-        Identify overall business risks from existing suppliers and develop risk mitigation plan to limit and eliminate the risks

-        Support Procurement scheduling team in escalation of matter regards overall delivery performance from suppliers

-        Support Quality in escalation of quality performance from Suppliers

-        Negotiate best value possible with own suppliers and support negotiation of the team when required

-        Escalate appropriate matters in a timely manner to procurement manager

-        Accountable for category productivity initiation and implementation, record and report result in a timely manner

-        Actively support sourcing of new product and supplier to support business success

-        Work closely with procurement project team in terms of keeping category team updated on new and priority projects, as well as feedback supply chain opportunities and constraints in a timely manner

-        Work closely with Category specialist to ensure commodity cost down is benefited and reflected in negative PPV (purchase price variance), vice versa combat cost increase by utilising commodity historical data and future trend.

-        Carry out supplier audit in conjunction with quality team

-        Carry out appropriate supplier view in formal and professional setting with results recorded on SharePoint

-        Provide appropriate demand forecast to supply base and feedback on capacity constraints

-        Continually challenge and improve upon current practices and procedures.

-        Develop strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders

-        Supervise category team personnel, including carrying out performance appraisals and objectives setting in line with the overall procurement team and company objectives and strategy

-        Help develop Category team member, elevate each other.

-        Live up to and promote CDE values and culture

-        Apply the minimum quality and environmental standards required under ISO 9001 and 14001 and the company Quality and Environmental standards

-        Day to day procurement activities as required.

-        Any other appropriate tasks that the company requires.

 

This job description is not exhaustive as other duties may be required to fulfil the requirements of the role.

Skills Needed

About The Company

WE ARE CDE. ENGINEERED FOR YOUWe empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy.We help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible – with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before. Our unparalleled speed and scale are down to our proximity to our customers and our deep understanding of their challenges. Our track record of proven solutions consistently meets our customers’ needs precisely, operating in challenging environments from the Arctic to the Equator.Wet processing is our sole focus –our experience and expertise is unmatched in this field. Every day, in everything we do, we strive to do it right. We want to be the best at what we do and deliver the maximum benefit for our customers. We pull together, as a team, in pursuit of this common cause. Our “Customer for Life” mentality fortifies each of our projects, with CDE engineers delivering continuous, limitless support.

Company Culture

We recognise that it is our people that have established CDE as market leader in developing solutions for the wet processing industry both within natural materials processing and waste recycling sectors. OUR PURPOSE IS TO CREATE OUR BEST WORLD, A TON AT A TIME.To do that, we must continue to build our global team by adding the most ambitious, driven and talented people. We will challenge you, elevate you and broaden your horizons. We will help you to be the best you can be both personally and professionally.We are renowned for our energy and can do attitude…. and at times seemingly delivering the impossible. We also know that all the will in the world won’t take us anywhere unless we work together. And we like to have fun together - life’s too short and we spend most of it at work. If we lose the power to laugh, we lose the power to think.We will continue to add the most dynamic, ambitious and talented individuals to the CDE team.

Desired Criteria

  • •Part CIPS qualified or similar
  • •Experience with IFS system
  • • Solid understanding of technical products and services, including specifications, industry standards, and quality requirements
  • •Good manufacturing processes awareness

Required Criteria

  • •Educated to degree level in engineering, supply chain management or business-related discipline.
  • •Minimum 3 years’ experience in a purchasing function in a manufacturing environment
  • •Experience of working with a modern ERP/MRP 2 system
  • •Proficient with Microsoft office software
  • •Well organised
  • •Good interpersonal skills
  • •Strong negotiation skills and the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with suppliers
  • •The ability to communicate effectively in writing, orally, and through presentations
  • •Ability to work unsupervised and plan own workload
  • •Ability to adapt changes
  • •Assertive
  • •Committed to H & S
  • •Dependable and reliable
  • •Enthusiastic, energetic self-starter able to work on own initiative.
  • •Teamwork
  • •Available to work flexible hours.
  • •Right to work in the UK

Closing DateFriday 6th December, 2024

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