Senior Procurement Specialist

Seeking a Defence Senior Procurement Specialist

Engineering full-time (37.5 hours per week) for 3 months+ near Milton Keynes, England.

Flexible working options, including 4-day week.

This activity is inside IR35 and candidates will be required to work via an Umbrella Company.

Job Summary:

Focussing on managing supplier delivery, primarily supporting development and production in Armoured Vehicles, Platform Integration, Special Projects and Weapons areas & domains to meet domestic and international programme and business needs. Through a worldwide supply base, although predominantly in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and the US.

Success requires experience of working in a functional organisation and a blend of proven skills including relationship building and achievement of deliveries on time and in full, through the ability to successfully negotiate and manage procurements, ranging from simple to complex subcontracts. This will be coupled with effectively working within a multi-disciplinary product team including Engineering, Operations and Quality.
The role focusses on supporting a variety of programmes and undertakes activity across multiple categories of goods and services including simple to complex build to print in commodity areas including PCB's, box-builds, cable harnesses, mechanical, COTs and MOTs.

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