Assistant Purchasing Manager

Assistant Purchasing Manager

Full-time: 37.5 hours per week. Salary negotiable depending on experience, plus bonus payable after qualification period.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist the Purchasing Manager in guiding the team to meet company and project goals.
• Key role in Project Management and hosting regular NPI review meetings.
• Select suppliers to meet business and project needs.
• Strive to achieve or exceed cost improvement goals sustainably.
• Manage supplier relationships.
• Set and communicate supplier performance targets.
• Establish production supply agreements with optimal commercial terms.
• Develop strategies to improve the Purchasing Team’s effectiveness.
• Mentor team members and assist in strategy creation.
• Maintain commodity strategies aligned with business goals.
• Support engineering change management for supplied components and materials.
• Participate in continuous improvement processes for supplier quality, cost, innovation, delivery, and management.
• Address quality issues with suppliers, supporting the quality engineer as needed.
• Maintain the Purchasing database, including expenditures, budgets, and supplier information.
• Coordinate stakeholder activities to achieve business improvement objectives.
• Manage and develop SAP functions related to suppliers and commodities.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Manufacturing sector experience
• Previous experience in automotive preferred – OEM / Tier 1
• CIPS membership or relevant business qualification desirable
• Proficient in cost improvement techniques.
• Positive contributor to new product launches.
• Highly developed communication, negotiation and influencing skills.