Procurement Specialist

Sea Global; England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing firm is seeking a Procurement Specialist to drive procurement strategy through market insights. You'll play a key role in sourcing and spend analysis while ensuring cost-effectiveness. Candidates should have over five years of procurement experience and strong analytical skills. This hybrid position offers a unique opportunity to work closely with an experienced leader in the field.

Qualifications

• Five plus years experience in procurement across a range of raw materials.
• Proven expertise in gathering and interpreting procurement-related market intelligence.
• Experience developing reports, dashboards, or pricing models.

Responsibilities

• Drive procurement strategy through high-quality market insights.
• Lead and support on procurement including sourcing and spend analysis.
• Partner with the wider Procurement team to deliver cost analysis.

Skills

Procurement experience

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical ability

Job description

Title: Procurement Specialist

Sector: Manufacturing

Location: Herfordshire / Hybrid

Sea Global are proud to be partnering with one of the most well respected Maufacturing companies globally. They are currently in the midst of an exciting period, which has resulted in this brand new, Procurement Specialist vacancy.

Ideally from a Manufacturing of Heavy industry background but they are open to people from other industries if you have a good base of end-to-end procurement experience.

The role is reporting into the Head of Procurement, providing a very exciting opportunity for someone to come in and learn from an experienced leader in their field.

Please read on and get in touch if you want to discuss further:

Role & Responsibilities

• You will play a key role in driving procurement strategy through high-quality market insights.
• Lead and support on procurement including sourcing, spend analysis, spend reporting, supplier performance monitoring, procurement compliance, and vendor risk management:
• Analyse global markets, evaluate suppliers, and stay on top of competitor moves.
• Drive cost-saving initiatives by ensuring that all purchasing activities are priced fairly and appropriately.
• Partner with the wider Procurement team to deliver cost analysis and optimise competitiveness.

Experience & Requirements

• Five plus years experience in procurement, ideally across a range of raw materials but open to other categories
• Proven expertise in gathering and interpreting procurement-related market intelligence and data
• Strong stakeholder engagement and analytical ability
• Experience developing reports, dashboards, or pricing models