Procurement Manager

In this role of Procurement Manager you will be the lead for all components and material related matters within the Avionics business streams. You will be responsible for the management of procurement teams to ensure the skills, capability and processes needed to support the business unit’s financial and strategic goals. You will work closely with Head of Supply Chain and other senior stakeholders for long term people development, process & technology deployment, and to ensure all materials are negotiated and available for production and customer programme delivery.

Typical responsibilities include:

• Leading and coordinating procurement team activities necessary to successfully support commodity and service procurement requirements of internal customers, primarily manufacturing and development/IRAD
• Managing all indirect and direct commodity procurement
• Reviewing and negotiate terms and conditions to ensure the business is legally covered, de-risked and profitable
• Focusing on cost savings/avoidance through supplier cost negotiation, process improvements/enhancements, utilising the AWAR and design to cost processes
• Managing supplier performance with regard to Quality, Delivery and Cost
• Managing SCM risk and opportunity management process to provide analytical approach to identifying risk, assess impact, develop mitigation strategies and understand trends to predict future risk and opportunities

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Requirements

To be successful in this role you will be able to demonstrate experience in:

• Strategic procurement and subcontract management experience ideally in the aerospace, defence, government or project driven manufacturing environment
• Working in the tactical environments (what needs to be done now to achieve the current business objectives) and the strategic environment (establishing and aligning the team around strategic business objectives)
• Challenging the norm, identifying, influencing and managing ‘best practice’ change implementation of processes and procedures
• Clearly articulating issues and possible solutions.
• Strong negotiation skills to clearly demonstrate cost savings and margin improvement
• Leadership through influence and effective conflict resolution
• Strong financial experience
• Strong communication skills from the front end to the boardroom
• Developing effective metrics
• Preferably holding CIPS, APM or equivalent qualifications