puestos de Product Owner en Gran Bretaña

Reporting to the Group Strategic Sourcing Director, you'll shape and deliver category strategies that reduce cost and risk while enhancing quality, service, and sustainability. You'll manage key supplier relationships, negotiate commercial agreements, and lead cross-functional projects with stakeholders in Operations, Engineering, Finance, and Supply Chain. This role is pivotal in driving value through initiatives such as NPI engagement, design-to-cost activities, and continuous improvement.

• Develop and implement category sourcing strategies aligned with Group objectives.
• Own supplier relationships, performance management, and long-term agreements.
• Lead cost improvement projects and value engineering activities.
• Collaborate with Engineering on early supplier involvement for NPI.
• Monitor supplier KPIs and maintain the Approved Vendor List.
• Ensure compliance with sourcing policies and governance processes.

• Extensive procurement experience in technical categories, ideally Metals & Plastics.
• Strong understanding of market dynamics and supplier strategy development.
• Proven success in NPI, cost improvement, and supplier development projects.
• Excellent negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Degree educated; MCIPS preferred but not essential.

At Oxford Instruments, we enable the world's leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image, analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. With a sixty-year history, and fourteen Queen's Awards for Enterprise, our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.