Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for a Procurement Manager on an initial 6 month Contract, located in Warwickshire.

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Role Summary

We seek an experienced Procurement individual highly motivated and self-driven to:

- Lead sourcing actives and negotiations for low to high value aerospace and industrial type components to optimize cost opportunities, contract coverage, and secure supply continuity.

- Undertake contractual and price negotiations with new and existing suppliers to mitigate commercial risk and optimise commercial advantage for current and future programmes.

- Carry out in depth cost breakdowns analysis (including cost estimation) and negotiate the lowest TCA in order to contribute to the divisional cost saving targets.

- Drive cost reduction and resourcing programmes to support strategy execution ensuring impact on existing supply chains are managed.

- Develop and deliver robust and integrated Commodity and Supplier strategies to provide supply chains capable of providing business needs across all stakeholder areas.

- Ensure a close cooperation with internal customers to ensure customer care and early involvement.

- Integrates Procurement in the project management process and organizes, controls and monitors all Procurement activities in a project.

- Participates in project/sales meetings as project core team member to exert a shaping influence at an early stage and to optimize internal workflows and processes.

- Establishes proper sourcing and Procurement processes and controls all Procurement resources and activities in the project.

- Analyses customer inquiries during bid preparation / opportunity management phases and exactly understands the customer's functional needs in order to include (supplier) innovations.

- Supports project calculation with reliable material cost data.

- Analyses scope of supply and contract agreements, carries out risk analyses and introduces negotiation recommendations.

- Analyses sales and operations planning in respect of starting / new projects, assessing and controlling of material costs within the whole project business in order to ensure the involvement of Procurement.

- Drives Procurement strategies in projects and ensures their implementation.

- Heads up contractual and price negotiations and/or supports the specialist buyers responsible for particular material fields.

- Clarifies internal indicators for project controlling and compiling all relevant information to submit qualified reports.

- Forwards systematically all relevant Procurement related project information

Requirements/ Skills



- Ability to work in a complex, fast changing global organisational environment.

- 10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing/commodity management.

- Outstanding Excel skills.

- Outstanding communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

- Excellent commercial, contractual, and project management acumen.

- Familiarity with component Manufacturing processes and Quality

- Knowledge of working with a global supplier base, in a matrix environment.

- Bachelor s degree required; Masters degree and/or CIPS desired

Our Company

Rubicon Consulting is a Talent management consultancy which helps you to optimise business performance and competitive advantage by choosing the right people first time!