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European Procurement Manager
🏢 Green Folk|📍 Taunton Somerset
Salary
£90000 - £110000/annum bottom of spec
Posted
Today
Closes
24 Nov
Applications
none
About this role
European Procurement Manager
£80,000 - £90,000 per annum (OTE £95,000 - £110,000)
50% European travel
Hybrid, office in Devon
Purpose of the role
- Monitor key performance metrics and ensure alignment with sourcing strategies, including delivery, quality, and supplier consolidation initiatives.
- Establish a process for gathering plant feedback, communicating outcomes to suppliers, and implementing performance-based rewards or corrective measures on a monthly or quarterly basis.
- Support initiatives that position the business as the customer of choice within the supplier network.
- Identify opportunities to lower costs, standardise products or services, leverage new supplier technologies, and address pricing or supplier performance challenges.
- Develop a project management framework in partnership with Supplier Quality to implement improvement plans, corrective actions, minimise risk, and maintain supplier continuity.
Background required
- Willing to undertake significant travel, comprising approximately 50% of the role, with regular visits to suppliers across multiple countries.
- Fluent in English, with an additional language such as French, German, or Hungarian considered advantageous.
- Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and presentation development skills.
- Strong verbal, written, and presentation abilities, with the capability to adapt communication styles for different audiences.
Responsibilities
- Develop and refine procurement strategies alongside International Segment and Procurement leadership teams.
- Lead category management activities across the EU region.
- Create and implement standardised checklists for each manufacturing plant.
- Ensure the Check Book process is established and consistently maintained.
- Develop recovery plans for plants that are underperforming against forecast targets.
- Monitor and report on overall material costs and spend across both direct and indirect categories.
- Set plant-level targets for payment terms based on spend and drive execution against these objectives.
- Negotiate supplier payment terms and contract conditions to enhance cash flow performance.
- Manage receipt schedules and payment terms to optimise year-end cash position.
- Negotiate extensions to payment deadlines where appropriate into the following quarter or financial year.
- Lead or provide support for cross-EU procurement and supply chain projects as required.
Benefits / Other
- Car allowance £700pm
- Bonus scheme 15%
- Pension scheme matched up to 10% matched
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays + plus 3 days bank for closure over Christmas period
- Healthcare schemes
- Onsite parking
Key skills mentioned
ExcelPowerpointManagementLeadershipCommunicationCareHrProcurementDeliveryLeadManagerProject management
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