Sourcing Specialist

Warwickshire  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Sourcing specialist

Location - Rugby

Negotiable rates of up to £35 p/h

6 month initial contract

My client is looking for an SC cleared Sourcing specialist to join their team in Rugby. The successful candidate will have current SC clearance, Sourcing/Purchasing experience and managing commodities amongst other skills.

Job Title: Sourcing Specialist - Commodity/Program focused

Location: Rugby UK

Function: Sourcing Naval

Role Summary/Purpose:

An exciting role working in a small team based on a military contract. Requiring a blend of skills based in the Sourcing organisation. Sourcing Specialist is responsible for defined commodity strategy, supplier/project management & expediting of their commodity parts.

In this role you will use your experience and expertise to develop a commodity strategy for a specific commodity and/or sub-commodities while driving commercial advantage through achievement in cost, quality and time. Solve problems, managing your suppliers to deliver against program objectives and contractual requirements. Developing and execute new supplier/commodity strategies to effect short-term and some long-term business goals.

The objective is to meet existing program milestones as well as concurrently develop new suppliers for commodities moving forward.

Essential Responsibilities (no particular order):

Expediting:

  • Collects documentation relevant to equipment to be expedited as per project and sourcing requirements as well as GE instructions
  • Organises briefing with Sourcing Manager/Project team on status and next steps
  • Confirms intervention with supplier (date & time, location, contact).
  • Performs Expediting intervention as per requirements
  • Review Action Log and confirm status/challenge suppliers to improve on their current position.
  • Verifies compliance with agreed baseline schedules including special project needs.
  • Identifies and report delays (if any) together with mitigation plan proposed by the supplier.
  • Collects information from supplier about next intervention date
  • Escalate issues internally within sourcing and project team as well as within the supplier whenever is needed
  • Review next steps
  • Support witness's inspections and customer meetings when requested.

Commodity Management:

  • Ensure lowest possible cost for goods/services, balanced against optimum quality and schedule needs while executing against set strategies.
  • Develop and execute long term, commodity strategies for a moderate group of strategic suppliers, with varying complexity and/or annual volume
  • Lead sourcing execution for assigned commodity(s) or suppliers, including full accountability for buy and meeting deflation targets.
  • Interface with and assist Global Commodities team and Global Ops Sourcing to support global commodity strategy implementation
  • Assist in identifying and driving new sources of supply and qualifying new suppliers in conjunction with Global Commodities team
  • Drive consolidation of the supply base for assigned commodities and negotiate agreements with the suppliers
  • Drive improvements in sourcing processes including escalations due to delivery/quality issues, invoicing/payables issues and database management through digitisation and simplification
  • Evaluate current and anticipated requirements, determine potential sources. Partner with key business stakeholders to ensure sourced goods and services meet the needs of the business
  • Solicit and evaluate proposals employing appropriate negotiation, cost and price analysis techniques
  • Perform market analysis and monitor supplier progress. Monitor supplier quality and delivery performance and develop improvement strategies to ensure business needs are met.

Programme Management:

  • Similar to the expediting element but focused on the key commodities assigned and specific issue to meet programme KPI's.
  • Management of costs, project change and overall effects onto the project.
  • Working with all functions to deliver the project, drive whatever necessary to ensure full project deliverables.

Desired Skills

  • Security clearance is a requirement (SC)- support will be given if required
  • Clean Driving Licence
  • Demonstrated sourcing and/or purchasing experience or transferable skills including negotiation, identifying opportunities, selecting suppliers and implementing contracts to achieve timely execution.
  • Knowledge of managing commodities - fabrications, machining, assembly, welding work.
  • Supplier management/progress against plans/working with supplier to deliver against plan.
  • Expediting/supplier relationship management
  • Project Management
  • Strong PC and Microsoft Excel skills
  • Six Sigma, Green Belt or Black Belt certification
  • Purchasing system experience is preferred
Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Experis IT
Published at
10.05.2018
Project ID:
1553053
Contract type
Freelance
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