Procurement Specialist

Our client is a rapidly growing business designing some of the most innovative and interesting applications for the marine industry. If you are a meticulous individual with a passion for design and development, for a pre-production project then this could be perfect for you.

Procurement Specialist
Marine applications
Permanent


Benefits

• Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing Day - An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
• Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
• Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
• Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Pension Contribution – pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice
• Flexible Working – Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work–life balance.
• Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.

 
Responsibilities will include:

• Procure a combination of build to print and build to specification goods and services in a largely production ERP environment but must be able to work with engineering teams to support the definition of requirements ahead of formal definition in a BOM.
• Creation and management of purchase orders including order acknowledgement, expediting and where required alternate solutions/intervention to resolve supplier issues.
• Monitor and report supplier performance against contracted requirements including expediting of open Purchase Orders, updating stakeholders and the ERP system.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks to minimise project delays.
• Negotiate with suppliers to secure favourable contract solutions including negotiation on pricing, scope and terms and conditions as required.
• Sourcing suppliers/third party solutions working in conjunction with engineering teams where required/needed.
• Where required able to understand and work with engineering teams around technical artefacts (drawings, specifications, statements of work) to ensure compliance, to identify risks and issues.
• Experience working within and contributing to processes such as NPIs, concessions, deviations and change management in a technical/production environment.
• Able to build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders as well as suppliers
• Able to work collaboratively across functions and teams to achieve business objectives (e.g. technical, stores/logistics, operations, quality).
• Provide progress updates and supply chain feedback to internal stakeholders.
• Support supplier audits as and when required.
• Support the Procurement Manager in achieving departmental goals and undertake any other duties as appropriate within their competence, as required.

 
Qualifications and Experience:

• Significant experience in Procurement and Supply Chain Management.
• Demonstrable experience gained in a European production environment working with hitech engineering, ideally maritime and including R&D; supporting delivery to deadlines on projects preferable within the marine engineering industry.
• Strong commercial acumen with excellent negotiation skills.
• Experience working with an ERP system, such as Infor LN.
• Willingness to support and embrace change in a fast-paced environment.
• Team-player with key communication skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Educated to degree level or a minimum qualified by experience
• Defence sector experience would be beneficial.
• MCIPS qualification is preferred but not essential.

Note: Due to the nature of work you will be required to be able to obtain BPSS clearance