Purchasing Manager – contract
Recruiter: Jonathan Lee Recruitment
Location: Warwick
Salary: Up to £40.29 per hour
Application date: 27th Jul 2022
Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
• Experience of direct material purchasing strategy (minimum 5 years) of significant spend and complexity, ideally within automotive or similar. Alternatively equivalent experience in chemical and/or metals industry will be considered
• Experience of managing team of strategic buyers (min 2 years)
• Excellent analytical and presentation skills
• Results driven, has tenacity, drive and perseverance, leading the team to deliver strategic plans in a complex, highly demanding environment.
• Ability to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with longer term planning, to lead and create high quality Purchasing strategies
• An individual who is resilient, energetic and enthusiastic, able to deliver results under pressure, whilst responding constructively to challenging new ideas and inputs
• Able to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style
• An excellent communicator who can communicate complex ideas to key stakeholders to influence cross functional alignment
• An effective team leader, who actively develops and supports team members
• Drives compliance to standard policies and procedures
Experience Preferred:
• Experience of working in a global, multi-cultural environment
• Experience of leading a team in a matrix organisation structure
• Experience of battery technical content and battery industry would be highly advantageous
• Experience of metal commodity markets would be advantageous
Education Required:
Degree qualified or equivalent experience
Additional Information
The recruiter confirms this position is inside IR35