Procurement Manager - Directs

Procurement Manager, Directs - Can be based in Central London OR South East England

£50,000 - £60,000 +15% target bonus

Current employee benefits include:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan
• Group Personal Pension Scheme (via salary exchange)
• Life Assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Interest-free Season Ticket Loans

About the Role:

The Procurement Manager will be responsible for supporting the Directs Categories.

You will be responsible for purchasing goods and/or services for the business to use, ensuring company obtains quality products for competitive prices in a timely fashion and plays an integral role in ensuring a company sticks to budgets and operates profitably.

The Procurement Manager will assist in delivering the Company procurement strategy and policies for purchases in support of the Company’s strategic objectives, including developing and implementing a companywide purchasing strategy, building and maintaining strong working relationships to gain buy- in and engagement with the key stakeholders, challenge, enhance and standardize existing procurement practices across all business units to ensure conformity of approach, generate economies of scale and deliver better value for money, utilizing the following principles:

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

• Liaises with key company employees to determine their product and service needs
• Monitors business trends and product availability to pay the best price for company Material / Product or Service without sacrificing quality or performance
• Nurtures relationships with suppliers to negotiate the best prices for company
• Identifies and researches potential new suppliers
• Researches new products and services to meet company's goals
• Assesses total costs of company purchases
• Develops and implements strategies for procuring, storing, and distributing goods or services and maintaining stock levels
• Create & roll out new corporate procurement policies and standard methodology and training

Category Strategies:

• Lead the business in agreeing and then delivering clear and compelling Category strategies for the named Material / Product or Service Categories which underpin the wider business strategy and 5 Year Plan (refresh and update these strategies as required)
• Understand the Value Chain and challenge materials, specifications, origins etc to deliver value improvements
• Leverage the growing business volumes and strong market share to deliver competitive advantage in our Inbound Supply Chain

Supplier Performance Management:

• Take overall responsibility for the performance of Suppliers within specified Material / Product or Service Categories
• Work with other Functions (Supply Chain, Technical, Manufacturing, Quality, IS, Legal) to ensure that targets (currently OTIF and Non-Compliances) are met

Capacity and Contingency Planning:

• Ensure that Suppliers have necessary capacity and stock arrangements to support the Business requirements (NB. Scheduling is carried out by the Supply Chain function)
• Ensure that robust contingencies are in place for critical items (alternate suppliers/factories/items, risk mitigation plans etc)
• Support the Supply Chain function when Inbound Supply issues occur by escalating issues with Supplier and identifying alternatives

Reporting/Forecasting/Budgeting:

• Interrogate PPV reporting weekly and explain variances to Forecast
• Work with Finance to produce an annual Budget and regular re-Forecasts justifying differences based on commodity moves, exchange rates, negotiated contracts and future projects

Projects:

• Challenge Suppliers and internal Stakeholders to identify and deliver Value Engineering projects which remove cost from our Material / Product or Service that are not-valued by our Consumers
• Support the NPD/EPD team in identifying new suppliers and new formats which support new Activities and Products
• Lead on specific Improvement projects (for instance these may relate to New systems, New Capacity, New Products or other Company initiatives)
• Plan and execute negotiations for both formal tenders and ad-hoc activities ensuring that the Business obtains best value on all its spend

Essential Key Attributes:

• Professionally qualified or working towards MCIPS
• Experienced Procurement & Supply Chain operational leader
• Commercially astute
• Excellent computer literacy coupled with strong knowledge of Working experience of vendor management software IVRS, MRP/ERP and WM systems
• Excellent communication skills both oral, written & presentational
• Experienced sourcing and vendor manager
• Pharma experience
• Excellent negotiation and networking skills
• Proven track record of driving change
• Strong leadership capabilities
• Proven track record of significant cost reduction
• Managing and setting budgets

Desirable Key Attributes:

• Experience in Operational excellence and lean tools
• Good understanding of the pharmaceutical product lifecycle from development through launch to steady state supply