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Procurement Director/Senior Procurement Manager

Status: Seeking next role
Location: Warwickshire
Desired location: United Kingdom
Basic salary: From £80,000
Exp. years: 20+
Specialisms: Indirect Procurement, Team Leadership, Procurement Transformation/Turnaround
Job Type: Permanent,Remote
Availability: Immediately Available
Overview:

We are delighted to be working with a highly experience Procurement leader who's very well versed in both Indirect and Direct categories & commodities, turning around underperforming teams and driving the profile of Procurement within major organisations - as you can see from the below, he also happens to be a cracking chap as well!

Some key facts:

  • Industries include Automotive OEM, International Service Provider and Food Manufacturing
  • Has led multi-site teams of up to 14
  • Strategic responsibility for diverse spends in excess of £300m
  • Excellent track record of delivering above target savings
  • Has turned around underperforming, disjointed functions into high performing, engaged and value adding teams
  • Indirect categories managed include the likes of recruitment/contingent labour, packaging, fleet, telecoms, office supplies, FM, Marketing, IT, Logistics, HR
  • On the direct side they reduced the BOM for one programme by 33% in 7 months with zero impact on quality or delivery

 

They are currently immediately available and seeking their next challenging procurement role, whether that be at Director, Head of or Senior Manager level.  They are currently based in Warwickshire but are happy to travel, or even relocate, for the right opportunity, something they have done a number of times already in their career.

Salary expectations starting at £80,000 + benefits depending on location, company and size/scale of challenge/opportunity.

If you'd like to learn more about this exceptional candidate then please don't hesitate to get in touch via the form on the left yes.

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