Group Purchasing Manager Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Group Purchasing Manager to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with management to plan forecasting models;
- Ensure high value desirable materials are in a controlled environment and only issued prior to assembly;
- Prepare and file detailed records on procurement activity, quantity and vendors;
- Record and assess all materials quality, movement and expenditure;
- Interact with Engineering/Production to ensure procured parts are at the latest revisions of BOM’s;
- Recommend and implement solutions to reduce cost as well as to simplify the existing global supply chain;
- Monitor inventory levels and access to material;
- Oversee, manage and support a small team of buyers and stores personnel;
- Identify and introduce opportunities Kanban/JIT methodologies as necessary;
- Manage the distribution of supplies internally and externally;
- Utilise the company’s MRP system to effectively plan materials;
- Deliver year on year material cost savings to agreed targets;
- Ensure dual supply of key components;
- Work within agreed authorisation levels.
Requirements:
- Ability to effectively represent the company in disputes with suppliers;
- Have a tenacity to find and develop new competitive suppliers, domestic and globally;
- Ability to develop and implement management information on purchasing and materials performance, KPI’s and improvement plans;
- Experienced in all aspects of MRP;
- Experienced in capacity planning;
- Experienced and dynamic in strategic sourcing and procurement, ideally with the aerospace sector;
- Commercially astute and be an effective negotiator and communicator;
- Ability to plan and execute effectively;
- Control and optimise inventory levels including perpetual inventory systems;
- Experienced in implementing and controlling a variety of stocking approaches (Kanban, consignment, JIT);
- Control the monitoring and assessment of suppliers in QCD that will determine ongoing supply;
- Ability to lead, develop and motivate relating department teams.