Procurement Specialist

Our client is a rapidly growing business designing some of the most innovative and interesting applications for the marine industry. If you are a meticulous individual with a passion for design and development, for a pre-production project then this could be perfect for you.

Procurement Specialist
Marine applications
Permanent

Benefits

Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
Wellbeing Day - An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to Linked In Learning.
Pension Contribution – pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice
Flexible Working – Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work–life balance.
Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.
Responsibilities will include:

Procure a combination of build to print and build to specification goods and services in a largely production ERP environment but must be able to work with engineering teams to support the definition of requirements ahead of formal definition in a BOM.
Creation and management of purchase orders including order acknowledgement, expediting and where required alternate solutions/intervention to resolve supplier issues.
Monitor and report supplier performance against contracted requirements including expediting of open Purchase Orders, updating stakeholders and the ERP system.
Proactively identify and mitigate risks to minimise project delays.
Negotiate with suppliers to secure favourable contract solutions including negotiation on pricing, scope and terms and conditions as required.
Sourcing suppliers/third party solutions working in conjunction with engineering teams where required/needed.
Where required able to understand and work with engineering teams around technical artefacts (drawings, specifications, statements of work) to ensure compliance, to identify risks and issues.
Experience working within and contributing to processes such as NPIs, concessions, deviations and change management in a technical/production environment.
Able to build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders as well as suppliers
Able to work collaboratively across functions and teams to achieve business objectives (e.g. technical, stores/logistics, operations, quality).
Provide progress updates and supply chain feedback to internal stakeholders.
Support supplier audits as and when required.
Support the Procurement Manager in achieving departmental goals and undertake any other duties as appropriate within their competence, as required.
Qualifications and

Experience:

Significant experience in Procurement and Supply Chain Management.
Demonstrable experience gained in a European production environment working with hitech engineering, ideally maritime and including R&D; supporting delivery to deadlines on projects preferable within the marine engineering industry.
Strong commercial acumen with excellent negotiation skills.
Experience working with an ERP system, such as Infor LN.
Willingness to support and embrace change in a fast-paced environment.
Team-player with key communication skills.
Analytical and problem-solving skills.
Educated to degree level or a minimum qualified by experience
Defence sector experience would be beneficial.
MCIPS qualification is preferred but not essential.

Note:

Due to the nature of work you will be required to be able to obtain BPSS clearance