Purchasing Supervisor / Manager

Job Title: Purchasing Supervisor

Location: Huntingdon

Salary: £35,000 – £40,000 per annum depending on experience

Job type: Full time, Permanent

This is an ambitious UK-based company with subsidiary operations in the USA, France, Germany and China. They supply materials which are used for research, development and specialised manufacturing applications within areas such as Healthcare, Industry, Communications, Academia and Defence.

The Role:

Your role will be to create a clear competitive advantage for the company through delivering sustainable improvements and benefits in operational excellence by:

• Developing and leading a high performing purchasing function based on delivering the Business Strategy
• Leading, communicating and driving the delivery of the purchasing Strategy
• Delivering an efficient and cost-effective operation to drive excellent customer experience
• The role is expected to have a proportion of day-to-day value adding activity (~70%) as well as supervisory requirements

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic and Operational Planning

• Organise the workload and resources of the department based on the operational needs of the business
• Regularly communicate and review the department progress against set KPIs

Financial Management

• Manage the department budget accordingly within scope
• Ensure all resources within the department are used effectively

Leading and Managing People

• Manage the conduct and behaviour of the department in line with company expectations
• Perform regular one to ones with employees within your supervision to ensure their individual objectives and goals are set, reviewed and achieved
• Develop employees’ skills, knowledge and strengths by providing day to day coaching and mentoring

Other job specific Function

• Understand all department functions and activity to be able to add value as part of the role
• Perform added value Buying functions / requirements as part of the team
• Lead the department ensuring Health & Safety and Quality are always top priority
• Lead and develop the department to ensure the timely availability of quality product through effective scheduling of resources
• Lead a culture in which the focus on ‘outstanding customer experience’ and ‘on time and in full delivery’ is at the heart of every decision made, driving ownership and urgency through the teams
• Create, maintain and improve department procedures to drive standardisation, effective training, and flexibility. Champion a structured environment, in line with ISO 9001 requirements, to ensure a transparent operation
• Work collaboratively with other departments to ensure available resource is effectively channelled to the most beneficial areas. Champion flexibility and cross training to deliver a team able to respond to business requirements expediently
• Work collaboratively with other functions, including sales and service and estimating teams, to ensure customer requirements are responded to at the earliest opportunity
• Drive root cause problem solving through the teams, and cross functionally, to ensure all issues are resolved at source and fixes are implemented to stop further occurrences
• Active involvement in the strategic development of the department, acting as facilitator of improvements both driven by the business and the department team

The Candidate:

Highly Desirable

• Experience of working with stakeholders
• A relevant professional qualification (i.e CIPS)
• A ‘people drive improvement mentality’ able to demonstrate success through development of individuals or teams

Essential

• Previous experience of managing a team
• Demonstrable planning and organising skills with the ability work to tight deadlines
• Confident in a visible environment with a high level of personal and professional credibility
• A good level of education in Maths and able to communicate effectively both verbally and in written form
• Experience gained within a production / manufacturing environment
• Demonstrable ability to analyse problems and suggest appropriate direction to resolve

As a Supervisor you must be able to demonstrate and live by the company core values:

• Continuous Improvement
• Responsibility
• One team
• Customer Centric

Benefits:

• Pension
• Enhanced holiday entitlement
• Private Health Insurance
• Income protection and critical illness
• Life Assurance

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Purchasing Manager, Procurement Manager, Supply Chain Manager, Procurement Officer, Purchasing Officer, Costs Manager, Supply Chain Analyst, Buying Manager, Buying Supervisor, Buying Team Leader, Purchasing Team Leader, Manufacturing Purchasing Manager, Materials Purchasing, Engineering, Supply Chain Supervisor may also be considered for this role.