Purchasing Manager - Rayfast
Job Description:
Rayfast is excited to announce the new strategic role of Purchasing Manager – Rayfast
Summary
Part of the leadership team for our £42m turnover UK business. Manage our supply chain to deliver top class customer service, diversify our supply chain and achieve cost savings.
Location: Swindon, UK
Main Duties
- Coach, mentor and develop team to exceed department KPIs.
- Ensure optimum stock holding to exceed KPI goals.
- Responsible for margin enhancement through strategic purchasing and supplier relationship management.
- Develop the front end of purchasing to be agile, tactical and deliver cost savings through supply chain diversification.
- Develop and implement supply chain risk assessment and management.
- Dynamically negotiate supplier costs and enable more competitive pricing.
- Ensure new suppliers are introduced and approved effectively.
- Ensure orders to suppliers enable shipments to us on time and in full.
- Enhance S&OP process, measure effectiveness and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Ensure freight partners deliver a cost effective and timely service.
- Analysis of data to ensure efficient stocking policies deliver commercial benefits
- Analysis of reporting metrics to manage the external supply base.
- Support the introduction of new products from existing and new suppliers.
- Develop and leverage lean principles and digital solutions to continuously improve departmental efficiencies.
- As an advocate of change, to perform other reasonable duties that may be required by the company.
Key Skills:
- Hands on with managing strategic suppliers
- Strong analytical skills; able to draw conclusions and manage actions
- Good communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally
- Astute commercial acumen and strong negotiating skills
Education and Experience:
- 3 years + management experience
- 5 years of supply chain and supplier management
- Delivering cost savings and supply chain diversification
- Demonstrated success in change leadership with empathy
- Comfortable and competent with ERP platforms
- Lean Management Tools, including Value Stream Mapping and Kaizen events. Six Sigma Proficient, Green or Black Belt is a plus
Interested? We’d love to hear from you. Please send us a 60 sec video demonstrating why you think you’d be suitable for the role, together with your CV to hr@rayfast.com.
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