Senior Procurement Lead - Electronics/PCBA (High-Reliability)

Teledyne LeCroy Korea; Chelmsford; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Teledyne e2v RF Power is seeking a Procurement Lead to drive supplier delivery and readiness for two high-impact PCBA system integration projects. You will act as the interface between engineering, operations, quality, and the supply base to ensure milestones, cost targets, and regulatory requirements are met.

The role requires significant procurement and subcontract management experience in a technical setting, with strong collaboration, risk management, and contract negotiation skills.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in procurement, subcontract management, or supply chain roles within a technical or engineering environment.
• Experience supporting new product introduction (NPI) and managing supplier engagement from design through to production.
• Strong understanding of supplier readiness, qualification processes, and compliance requirements, including regulatory, environmental, and quality standards.
• Proven ability to manage supplier performance and deliver recovery in challenging delivery environments.
• Experience working within complex, low-volume, high-mix manufacturing environments.
• Strong commercial and contractual acumen, with experience managing risk and negotiating agreements.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Analytical capability with strong data handling skills, including Excel, SQL and ERP systems such as SAP.
• Professional procurement qualifications, such as MCIPS are desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree in a science or engineering discipline would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier selection activities ensuring capability, capacity, and maturity alignment to programme phase and delivery risk profile.
• Own end-to-end delivery performance of assigned subcontractors against milestones, cost targets, and quality.
• Establish and maintain robust supplier delivery plans with risk tracking and constraint management.
• Lead recovery planning and execution for underperforming suppliers to resolve delivery or quality issues.
• Engage suppliers early in design and NPI phases to ensure capability and readiness to support programme requirements.
• Conduct supplier readiness and capability assessments including industrialisation and documentation maturity.
• Ensure alignment between engineering change processes and supplier execution to minimise disruption.
• Support onboarding and qualification of suppliers with regulatory and environmental standards.

Skills

Procurement experience

Subcontract management

NPI support

Supplier readiness

Contract negotiations

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Excel

SQL

SAP ERP

Education

Bachelor's degree in science or engineering

Tools

SAP ERP

Excel

Job description

Teledyne e2v RF Power is seeking a Procurement Lead to drive supplier delivery and readiness for two high-impact PCBA system integration projects. You will act as the interface between engineering, operations, quality, and the supply base to ensure milestones, cost targets, and regulatory requirements are met.

The role requires significant procurement and subcontract management experience in a technical setting, with strong collaboration, risk management, and contract negotiation skills.