Procurement Manager (Manufacturing)

Autosmart International Ltd; Chasetown; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company in the UK is seeking a Procurement Manager to lead their procurement team and ensure effective supply chain management. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in procurement within a manufacturing environment, strong leadership skills, and the ability to manage procurement projects effectively. This permanent role offers a competitive salary of GBP60k-GBP65k, along with various benefits including private health care and a generous pension scheme.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Non-contributory private health care

Generous contributory pension scheme

Life insurance at three times salary

Employee assistance programme

Staff purchase scheme

Qualifications

• 5 years procurement experience within a manufacturing production environment.
• Proven ability to lead, inspire, coach, and manage teams.
• Experience managing and delivering procurement projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage and motivate procurement team to achieve performance.
• Lead procurement projects and supply chain management.
• Monitor supplier performance against service level agreements.

Skills

Procurement experience

Coaching and developing teams

Negotiating techniques

Creative problem solving

ERP experience

Tools

IFS ERP

Job description

Are you looking for your next opportunity within Procurement? Keen to progress and further your career within a stable, market leading manufacturing business?

Autosmart International is a manufacturing success story. Leading the field in vehicle cleaning products, we are the No.1 choice of automotive trade customers across the UK. We have doubled in size in the last 10 years with a strategic plan to grow by 50% in the next 5 years. To sustain and underpin our growth, we have invested over GBP35 million in a brand new, 5-acre warehouse and state of the art manufacturing site in Burntwood, Staffordshire.

We are looking for an ambitious and motivational leader to become our Procurement Manager where you will lead, coach and manage your direct procurement team, maintain supply of direct purchases, along with monitoring and measuring supplier performance against agreed service level agreements.

Our Procurement Manager will:

• Manage, lead and motivate your team to achieve department performance against agreed key performance indicators, recognising success, and encouraging collaborative cross team working.
• Lead from the front, setting individual and team SMART objectives, carrying out regular one to one meetings, and maintain a positive and open culture across the team.
• Manage, lead and deliver a diverse range of procurement projects.
• Implement consistent reporting to facilitate decision making.
• Develop our direct procurement team to identify suppliers and manufacturers for a range of raw materials, packaging and products from across the world.
• Monitor, plan and react quickly to changes in supply, to minimise and eliminate disruption, and maintain stock items in line with our stock holding guidelines.
• Proactively monitor and communicate price increases, assess margin impact and notify relevant department(s).
• Use a range of negotiating techniques to reduce the cost of purchases across selected areas and achieve value for money, whilst maintaining good supplier relationships.

Our Procurement Manager will bring:

• 5 years procurement experience within a manufacturing production environment.
• Experience in successfully coaching and developing, with the proven ability to lead, inspire, coach, and manage teams to deliver results, ideally in a procurement environment.
• A positive mindset, high level of personal drive, independence and openness to learning.
• Experience of providing creative solutions to supply chain issues and managing suppliers commercially against SLAs.
• Experience of managing and delivering procurement projects.
• ERP experience Autosmart uses IFS, experience of this application would be beneficial.

What we can offer our Procurement Manager:

• Salary circa GBP60k GBP65k depending on experience
• Permanent contract of employment
• A varied and autonomous role with a financially stable market leader
• Company-wide training programme to develop key skills
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Non-contributory; private health care
• Generous contributory pension scheme
• Life insurance at three times salary
• Employee assistance programme
• Staff purchase scheme take home products for FREE

Please note this is an onsite role based at our warehousing and manufacturing facility in Burntwood

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