Purchasing Manager

Purchasing Manager 

Birmingham 

£40,000 - £45,000

Key Responsibilities:

• Reduce Direct and Indirect costs across the business in line with monthly targets.
• Responsible for buying goods in their manufacturing process, sell or use with their own business.
• Responsible for keeping all costs within the business below target and making recommendations for ongoing efficiencies.
• Being able to provide accurate costings for every job and working closely with the Sales & Marketing Manager and Planner to ensure all associated costs are accounted for in quotes and future work schedules are understood.
• As the Purchasing Manager, keep abreast of market trends, supplier capabilities, and logistical challenges.
• Track metrics to understand usage and identify trends, anomalies, changes.
• Develop of suite of live reports to ensure the Leadership Team is kept up to date and informed.
• Understand, and carry out regular research into the best suppliers / deals for the business without compromising on quality, timeframes, service or health and safety.
• Develop good working relationships with all key suppliers and seek to develop new relationships in order to negotiate better quality, pricing, and delivery timeframes.
• Ensure the team liaise with suppliers and resolve any delivery or quality issues immediately.
• Identify ‘critical’ suppliers and appropriately manage the relationship to ensure supply security for the business.

Key Accountabilities:

• For the costs within the Purchasing areas, reducing business costs and introducing efficiency measures; this role has overall accountability for achieving the cost reduction targets.
• Full accountability for delivering the most efficient and effective consignment stock process.
• For costing every individual job.
• For seeking the appropriate authorisation from the Leadership Team before changing any suppliers.
• For effective management and leadership of staff in your area delivering all required management disciplines, health and safety, motivation, support, development, and areas as directed by the Business Support Manager.
• The accuracy and effectiveness of the purchasing teams and systems, to include purchasing, consignment stock, stores, stock control, and goods in.
• Following the purchasing processes in place and making recommendations for improvements.
• As the business reviews and updates its processes and working practices, be flexible to embrace any changes or new ways of working.
• Carrying out the role with honesty and integrity, whilst demonstrating the company values, and with the company’s best interest at heart.

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