Assistant Purchasing Manager
Full-time: 37.5 hours per week. Salary negotiable depending on experience, plus bonus payable after qualification period.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist the Purchasing Manager in guiding the team to meet company and project goals.
- Key role in Project Management and hosting regular NPI review meetings.
- Select suppliers to meet business and project needs.
- Strive to achieve or exceed cost improvement goals sustainably.
- Manage supplier relationships.
- Set and communicate supplier performance targets.
- Establish production supply agreements with optimal commercial terms.
- Develop strategies to improve the Purchasing Team’s effectiveness.
- Mentor team members and assist in strategy creation.
- Maintain commodity strategies aligned with business goals.
- Support engineering change management for supplied components and materials.
- Participate in continuous improvement processes for supplier quality, cost, innovation, delivery, and management.
- Address quality issues with suppliers, supporting the quality engineer as needed.
- Maintain the Purchasing database, including expenditures, budgets, and supplier information.
- Coordinate stakeholder activities to achieve business improvement objectives.
- Manage and develop SAP functions related to suppliers and commodities.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- Manufacturing sector experience
- Previous experience in automotive preferred – OEM / Tier 1
- CIPS membership or relevant business qualification desirable
- Proficient in cost improvement techniques.
- Positive contributor to new product launches.
- Highly developed communication, negotiation and influencing skills.