The Company
Nigel Wright's Supply Chain and Procurement Team are working exclusively with a leading manufacturer and employer of choice to recruit a Purchasing Manager Indirect.
The role offers flexible and hybrid working (3 days on site) plus excellent opportunities for personal development and progression.
The Role
The Purchasing Manager Indirect will manage multi-territory Indirect spend Capex, MRO, Logistics and will manage a team of (Senior) Buyers.
Key responsibilities:
- Designing, implementing and driving category strategy
- Conducting complex contract negotiations, resourcing/retendering
- Project/change management
- Supplier performance management against cost, quality, delivery
- Building cross functional, collaborative partnerships internally and externally
- Reviewing opportunities to implement global contracts with other plants
About You
You will have/be:
- Proven strategic procurement track record, having devised and implemented procurement strategy within a global business
- Experienced leader and manager of teams
- Procurement category management experience across Capex, MRO, Logistics and/or FM beneficial
- Excellent international supplier performance management, contract negotiation skills
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills – confident to challenge
- Skilled communicator, adept at building relationships quickly, with ease
- Resilient and adaptable to changing priorities in a fast-paced working environment
- Confident decision maker, dynamic and commercially astute
- Efficient – able to deliver to deadline
If you are an experienced Manager with a strong background in end to end Indirect procurement/broad global, multisite supply chain experience and a commercial mindset - please get in contact for further details asap!