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Peterlee, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Facility Procurement Professional role in Peterlee, UK, focuses on supporting supply-related activities to enhance procurement integration within the facility. The position involves managing material and service flows, identifying cost reduction opportunities, and collaborating with suppliers to resolve issues. Candidates should possess direct material procurement experience and familiarity with SAP procurement systems. The role emphasizes data-driven decision-making and analytical thinking to optimize facility operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support delivery of a lean, responsive, and resilient material and services flow for the facility.
- Identify cost and inventory reduction opportunities and assess business proposals and risks.
- Operate and monitor supply network procurement functions to meet response time, cost, quality, and lean targets.
- Collaborate with business partners and suppliers to resolve facility-specific supplier issues.
Key Skills:
- Direct material procurement experience.
- SAP procurement experience.
- Data-driven decision-making skills.
- Analytical thinking capabilities.
- Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP) knowledge.
- Supplier management experience.
- Supply chain management understanding.
- SAP/MACH1 experience (preferred).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Peterlee
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job Title: Facility Procurement Professional
Location: Peterlee, UK
Hours: 36.5
Travel: Up to 5%
Must have: Direct material procurement experience SAP Procurement experience in a similar environment
Job Purpose: As a Facility Procurement Professional, you will support supply related activities for a facility to deliver excellence and integration between procurement and the team supporting facility.
Job duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
- Supporting delivery of a lean, responsive, and resilient material and services flow for the facility from source to dock and additional required points.
- Recognizing the potential for cost and inventory reductions, and quality improvement, as well as responsibility for soundness of business proposals and risk assessment and then work with the correct internal teams to deliver.
- Operating and monitoring the supply network procurement functions to meet the defined response time, cost, quality, and lean targets enabling optimal and efficient facility operations.
- Collaborating with business partners and suppliers and resolving facility specific supplier issues.
What Skills You Will Have:
- Data-driven Decision Making: Applies an assigned technique for data-driven thinking in a Decision-Making process.
- Discerns between "signal" and "noise" when interpreting data.
- Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
- Participates in the process of choosing KPIs and metrics to influence decisions.
- Utilizes the basic data collection and evaluation tools and techniques.
- Analytical Thinking: Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
- Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
- Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
- Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP): Participates in developing materials requirements and costs for custom requests.
- Uses job schedule, plant and machine schedule and inventory systems to initiate and oversee Uses available tools to analyse order and develop quotes and realistic delivery dates.
- Supplier Management - MFG: Follows procedures in carrying out routine supplier management tasks.
- Uses electronic systems or tools to record/retrieve supplier information and carry out transactions with suppliers.
- Resolves routine supplier issues; escalates non-routine issues up chain of command.
- Works with suppliers to ensure that purchases meet delivery date and quality specifications.
- Supply Chain Management: Participates in supply chain analysis and uses it to spot trends and improvement opportunities.
- Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions.
- Works with a specific part of supply chain management process.
Top candidates will also have: SAP/MACH1 experience