Procurement Manager

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Procurement Manager to enhance supplier relationships and drive operational excellence. This pivotal role involves managing supplier performance, collaborating with operations teams, and ensuring strategic sourcing aligns with business goals. The ideal candidate will thrive under pressure, possess strong negotiation skills, and be adept at using Excel. A flexible approach to work hours is essential, as the role may require extra hours to meet business demands. Join a dynamic team dedicated to continuous improvement and innovation in procurement practices.

Qualifications

• Strong negotiation skills and buying experience are essential.
• Proficient in Excel with good literacy skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage supplier relationships and ensure adherence to standards.
• Drive strategy and collaborate with stakeholders for service improvements.

Skills

Negotiation Skills

Excel Skills

Commercial Awareness

Literacy Skills

Health and Safety Knowledge

Job description

Title: Procurement Manager

Reports to: Head of Procurement

Based at: Newrest UK Head Office – London Heathrow

Salary: Circa £45,000

Job Purpose

To provide support to all Newrest UK bases via the appropriate and effective sourcing of suppliers and products. You will play a crucial role in nurturing strategic relationships with global and high-value suppliers, analysing performance data, and working collaboratively with Operations teams to achieve operational and financial targets. The ideal candidate will possess excellent resilience, thrive under pressure, and effectively manage complex contractual and operational situations.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

1. Manage day to day supplier relationships, ensuring adherence to agreed standards.
2. Work with Operations teams and Newrest Head Office Procurement team to ensure suppliers achieve operational and financial targets.
3. Point of contact for Operations and Finance teams and other internal stakeholders.
4. Review and supervise RFP process.
5. Ensure robust performance auditing against contractual SLAs/KPIs, management of contracts and benchmarking of service providers.
6. Drive strategy of the category, collaborate with suppliers and internal stakeholders to drive innovation, efficiencies, business development opportunities and generating additional value to both parties.
7. Lead internal reviews with key stakeholders to identify business needs and tangible service improvements. Translating these into relationship development plans with suppliers.
8. Develop and maintain plans to prioritise and implement continuous improvement in terms of service, cost, risk and flexibility.
9. Instigate and develop action plans to remedy poor supplier performance and managing through to conclusion.
10. Ensure smooth implementation of service improvement projects and successful handover to operational business stakeholders.
11. Lead market scanning and benchmarking to monitor the direction of the supply market, whilst ensuring competitiveness of the supply base and shaping the strategy of the category.
12. Provide regular Management Information reports and updates to the business stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
13. Monitoring and driving corrective action for Invoice Price Variances (IPV), Purchase Price Variances (PPV), year on year deflation (YOY).
14. Engagement with key stakeholders, manage financial elements of materials and cost impact.
15. Work on own initiative working at pace and with a high level of accuracy.
16. Prioritise workload in a pressurised environment to ensure duties are carried out in a timely manner.
17. Adhere to inflight services security compliance.
18. Adhere to clean as you go standard.
19. Interact with colleagues, customers and clients in a professional manner at all times.
20. Drive, direct and implement unit Corporate, Social, Responsibility initiatives.
21. Any other duties as requested by your manager.

Knowledge and Skills

1. Commercially aware, with a flexible mindset.
2. Good Negotiator with buying experience.
3. Excellent Excel skills.
4. Good literacy skills, verbal written and spoken.
5. Health and Safety knowledge and proven application of.

Work Related Circumstances

Must be flexible and able and willing to work extra hours and weekends, bank holidays and evenings when required to meet seasonal or customer demands. Consider shift start and finish times and transport links to site, living within reasonable travelling distance to the site may be a consideration.

Physical/Health Requirements

Must be able to access all public areas of the property and airport, including stairwells, confined spaces, heights etc. Work may involve reasonable lifting of heavy / bulky objects within the published health & safety guidelines on manual handling.

Essential Requirements

Must wear a visible name badge at all times. Complete all relevant paperwork within specified standards and timeframes. Ensure all specified training and food safety standards are adhered to at all times. Complete any other duties as requested by management.

Competencias

Procurement Communication Skills commercial Literacy