Our client is greatly experienced in manufacturing and developing Fast Moving Consumer Goods on behalf of brand owners. Operating across several highly regulated sectors they have a great reputation with in-house specialist and accredited facilities available for meeting their customers’ needs. They currently have a vacancy for a Procurement Manager based at their site in the Northwest of England. The role will have overall responsibility for managing a small team of 6 personnel in buying all the site’s material requirements, totalling over £30Million from over 200 suppliers, to maintain high levels of customer service to the operations teams and thus ensuring long term profitability for the business. As part of the Site Leadership Team managing the supplier facing resource, the role works closely with their team to manage the day-to-day business interactions and to co-ordinate the resource to provide high levels of service in the most cost effective and efficient manner.

Responsibilities include:

• Channel new market intelligence and information about new materials and applications to the Sales team.
• Develop relationships throughout existing and potential suppliers to ensure we are their preferred customer of choice.
• Support the business commercially and negotiate the best commercial price to enable us to win business and develop it in the future.
• Continually examine our material costs and explore opportunities to maintain or ideally improve upon our margin.
• Understand and react to market pressures in terms of material availability.
• Ensure that all materials purchased conform to customer specifications and comply with all legislative and regulatory controls.
• Minimise working capital by working with suppliers and logistics to reduce working capital without compromising customer service.
• Work with suppliers to improve their OTIF delivery performance.
• Support the business in its ongoing product development by sourcing new materials / suppliers.

The successful candidate must have:

Significant (5+ years) post CIPS qualification experience along with demonstrable success of strategic purchasing in a manufacturing environment, preferably in the chemical, healthcare or food sectors and ideally be educated to degree level, (preferably science based) This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career in a fast-paced subsidiary of a FTSE 100 Plc. Ideally, they will have the following personal attributes too:

• Tenacious, self-starter, committed and hardworking with honesty and integrity.

• Charismatic with excellent written and oral communication skills.