Senior Procurement Manager (Sustainability) in Oxford

Location: Oxford

Contract duration: Hays are delighted to be working with our global client, one of the world’s most successful premium manufacturers of cars, motorcycles, and provider of premium services. Our client demonstrates a commitment to innovation, sustainability, and product responsibility all the way from development to production.

The job holder shall perform Indirect purchasing tasks within the area of responsibility, including coordinating, planning, sourcing, negotiating, and supplier steering based on business requirements seeking for best quality, innovation, flexibility, and total acquisition cost.

The job holder will lead their own commodity responsibilities and take on projects from inception to delivery across all commodities, coordinating relevant stakeholders on a local and regional level in respect of purchasing guidelines. The role shall expect select tasks or projects to be dealt with in a regional responsibility. The role could be either a leading regional function (COC) or the local contribution and participation in a regional tender.

Responsibilities include:

• Responsible for supplier nomination, acting on behalf of Purchasing and presenting at prescribed decision circles, including support and nomination recommendations for local and Group suppliers to ensure that suppliers nominated are of the highest standard and comply with all group processes, procedures, policies, and guidelines.
• Check and verify supplier offers for plausibility in commercial areas and for technical content with the support of planners, engineers, and users to ensure that negotiations are undertaken to the operational and economic benefit of the company and that all business requirements are met.
• Build and maintain relationships with supplier representatives while continually improving and monitoring supplier performance.
• Commodity supply chain strategy (CSCS): Based on the strategy, the local Buyer builds and manages the supplier portfolio in the operational and economic benefit of the group.
• Handle quotations, including developing requirements with engineers, users, and planners, the input of technical concept competitions, and confirming methods/targets for supplier performance to ensure that quotations/orders are accurate, to specification, and meet all business requirements, in line with group policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Setting up and maintaining long-term frame contracts in all relevant ordering systems, managing the purchasing process from supplier to end-user.
• Promote the purchasing cycle by working with all aspects of the business, including developing and delivering training to the business and developing training material if needed.
• Run credit reports for all new suppliers and manage ongoing financial risk with existing vendors.
• Take a leadership role in the development and maintenance of all departmental reports, including all departmental KPI reports and preparation of any ad-hoc reports required by the business or for the purpose of analysis and Purchasing due diligence.
• Responsible for all routine administration, including completing all relevant documentation, maintaining mailboxes, and maintenance of the purchasing systems, including directing all purchasing-related queries from the business to the relevant department.
• Manage contracts, purchasing records, filing systems, and databases.
• Manage contracts for external goods and services for the operational and economic benefit of the business, in line with group guidelines, policies, and procedures.
• Coordinate risk analysis, including management of supplier bankruptcies and receiverships to ensure that risks are reduced as far as possible without having a negative impact on the company’s ability to achieve its performance targets.
• Provide training/coaching within the area of expertise to ensure that Associates within the business unit can meet all business requirements.
• Foster excellent collaboration with the regional purchasing network thanks to regular and relevant communication, best practice sharing, as well as central purchasing departments.

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of Project management and Supplier management experience.
• Analytical and data-driven mindset.
• Excellent in strategic thinking and creative problem solving.
• Ability to anticipate risk and implement contract measures.
• Proactive and able to react quickly.

Key aspects of policy include supporting five dimensions of diversity: gender, age and experience, physical and mental abilities, sexual orientation and identity, and cultural background.