Purchase Project Lead

Procurement Project Lead

SF Recruitment are working with an innovative automotive business who are engaged in some exciting manufacturing projects, to recruit a procurement project lead. High value, low volume, bespoke manufacturing environment.

Job Purpose:

To be the conduit between the Special Projects, Purchasing & Engineering teams. To represent the requirements of the business, and scope of the project, to both Engineering & Purchasing whist maintaining project costs, and evolution of deliverables, to report out to the Senior Management Team, & Board, when required.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identify Project scope, alongside Special Projects Manager.
• Compile project deliverables, from Purchasing & Engineering, alongside Special Projects Manager.
• Weekly meetings, with Engineers, to ensure Purchasing are represented during Engineering phase of project scope, thus enabling supplier selection to be from current, and future, supply base.
• Facilitate prototype sourcing to meet early build phases
• Ensures supplier nominations are on time and to budget
• Weekly meetings, with Buyers, to feed all project requirements into Purchasing & ensure correct supplier selection, for project scope.
• To represent all costs within the project team from conception, through all gateways, to final build.
• To monitor, record & maintain cost due to Engineering changes for all suppliers.
• To process all PCNs once the Buyers have approved the supplier selection & cost.
• Following supplier selection, maintain supplier relationships and review weekly project status, with team & Supplier.
• Escalate any issues to Special Projects, Purchasing & Engineering Manager to ensure swift resolution.
• Identify potential long lead time items (and other purchasing related risks) at the planning stages of a project and develop mitigation strategies accordingly.
• Maintain appropriate levels of project documentation on behalf of Purchasing and look for opportunities to improve the overall process and associated tools.
• Report out, to the business, the project status when required.

Skillset requirements:

• Strong Project/NPI procurement experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Automotive experience desirable but not essential
• Project mgmt. skillset within an engineering environment

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