Procurement Manager

**Procurement Manager**

The current supply chain has grown organically is fragmented and in need of a re-design where spend is more focused on a smaller number of well-chosen suppliers who see the potential of Eggtronic and want to be instrumental in their success. The re-design will include selecting out suppliers and introducing new ones as well as introducing a contractual framework that improves commercial terms (e.g payment terms) once performance thresholds have been met. The procurement manager will work with internal stakeholders to design a supply chain that is fit for the future and will keep Eggtronic competitive as the business scales.

The procurement manager is restless and always looking for ways to improve the commercial performance of the business. With their value to the business understood both internally and externally.

**_Background:_**
- Is an experienced professional who is a procurement/purchasing manager of a small team
- Has worked in a company that supplies electronic hardware products in volume to either Consumers (B2C), Businesses (B2B), or both.
- Has a minimum of 5 years purchasing/procurement experience.
- Has experience of buying from ASIA (both procurement and manufacturing) either directly or via a local office.
- Has experience of working with the planning team to interpret and consolidate customer demand signal into supply plans that can be shared with suppliers.
- Can demonstrate their effectiveness as a negotiator
- Has worked with planning teams to produce supply planning schedules that maximise on-time delivery performance whilst minimising working capital impact and inventory.
- Understands that ‘inventory is a ‘substitute for information’ and knows how to purchase responsibly
- Has run, and/or introduced, a system based purchasing process with suitable governance and controls
- Has experience of procuring integrated circuits
- Is comfortable working with Development teams on New Product Introductions (NPI).
- Has worked directly with Finance functions and understands the importance of their priorities.
- Has a relevant professional qualification

**_Personal attributes:_**
- Treats company money as if it was their own
- Is an excellent communicator who tells compelling stories as part of their negotiating technique
- Is an accomplished practitioner with all the negotiating tactics (compromise, bargaining, logic, emotion and threat) and knows when to use them effectively.
- Is a clear and methodical thinker
- Wants to understand the numbers and the story behind the numbers
- Knows how to say ‘no’ without causing offense
- Has the appetite and ability to improve and professionalise existing systems and methodologies
- Able to work constructively with Sales and finance teams.
- Proactively changes purchasing plans in response to changing input signals and with mínimal fuss
- Feels responsible for company money (cash)
- Looks ahead, thinks ahead and plans ahead
- Wants to measure things in order to improve performance.
- Is a capable communicator and negotiator
- Is able to distinguish between the ‘urgent’ and the ‘important’
- Not afraid to take decisions, but knows when to escalate
- Listens to all the arguments and takes a considered position.
- Wants to change the world and is prepared to work hard

**Responsibilities**:

- Re-designing the supply chain to get maximum ‘bang for buck’ in relation to:

- On time delivery performance
- Cost of goods
- Service
- Quality
- Return on spend
- Introduce supplier contracts with key vendors that include performance milestones that improve the commercial terms (in particular payment terms) when contribution thresholds are met.
- In collaboration with the planning team, devise a purchasing methodology that achieves high customer on-time delivery performance whilst minimising inventory held
- Introduce a set of performance measures (KPI’s / PI’s) designed to elevate planning performance over time and that are visible to all.
- Introduce a system based purchasing methodology that responds quickly and easily to changing demand signals
- Introducing a supplier forecasting process (mix of binding and non-binding) that provides supplier with the most accurate and up to date information available for them to plan.
- Implement quarterly reviews with suppliers that provides data driven feedback on their performance and areas where they need to improve
- Introducing purchase price variance tracking (PPV’s) and a stock re-valuation process that is sufficient to satisfy auditing requirements
- Develops the ERP system to become a powerful and effective business tool
- Ensure that purchase orders are placed on the system and updated (due date etc) in response to changing conditions.
- Ensuring that purchasing decisions are made at the right levels and at the right times (governance). This includes providing the approver with sufficient qualifying information to enable them to make informed decisions.
- Introdu