Role: Purchasing Manager

Location: Worcestershire

Salary: £50-55k + Benefits

We're looking for a talented and ambitious Purchasing Manager to work for our client.

They want to recruit someone with demonstrable experience of reducing purchasing costs, lead times and stock levels, gained within a manufacturing, engineering or related enviorment.

If that's you then you could be exactly what they're looking for.

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The Role:
Reporting to the Operations Manager and based at the company's Worcestershire site, as the Purchasing Manager you will be primarily responsible for taking a key role in the organisations leadership team, driving purchasing and supplier performance and building a medium to long-term strategic purchasing strategy for a growing engineering/manufacturing organisation.

In the job you'll be tasked with the following:

• Driving supplier performance
• Building strong relationships with key vendors
• Building a pipeline of suppliers to support ongoing production activities

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The Candidate:
The ideal candidate for this Purchasing Manager role will have relevant experience of reducing purchasing costs, lead times and stock levels.

You'll also need experience of seeing out new suppliers to re-source materials when required.

Plus, it's vital that you've got experience of undertaking quality audits, working in collaboration with quality colleagues insite the business.

In addition, you'll need the following:

• Strong communication, organisation, research and analytical skills
• Supervisory experience, leading a small but busy team
• Strong negotiation skills, able to drive prices with suppliers

The ideal person for the role will be the following:

• A hands-on purchasing professional, happiest working collaboratively with colleagues across the business
• Able to develop a medium to long term strategic buying plan and develop a robust purchasing strategy
• An individual who knows the importance of building strong relationships with key suppliers

Does that sound like you? If so, we'd love to see your CV.

This position could be right for you if you want to work as any of the following: Procurement Manager, Materials Manager or as a Supplier Manager or similar.

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The Package:
Basic salary: up to c.£55,000 per annum + benefits package

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The Company:
The business you'll be working for is a well established and growing manufacturing / niche engineering business, showing impressive growth and forecasting further medium-term growth, their products are on the cutting edge of technological development.

They're a great company to work for. People join them for many reasons, such as they:

• Offer excellent professional development so ideal for career focussed individuals
• Have a clearly supportive and high performance culture
• Have strong employee loyalty, leading to low staff turnover

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Interested? If you think you're right for this Purchasing Manager role, then click the 'Apply Now' button, send us your CV and we'll get intouch around next steps.