Description
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, implement and drive the overarching Category team delivery plan and Supplier Engagement schedule.
- Define measures, key performance indicators and internal service delivery agreements to enable delivery.
- Work with key stakeholders to identify and develop sub-contract requirements
- Lead cross functional engagement to facilitate the delivery of robust business inputs to RfP/RfT preparation, acting as the point of escalation for issue resolution
- Drive sub-contract development activity to point where programmes can secure Customer approval
- Lead supplier engagement, drawing in strategy and negotiation expertise
- Drive Suppliers to meet their contractual obligations, ensuring supply chain enables design maturity and production outputs
- Capture active and historical LFE from other programmes and ensure learning is Embedded
- Category Cost Account Management and reporting
Key Technical Skills:
- Category strategy development,
- Facilitation and ownership of procurement life cycle activities for category
Company/Industry Knowledge:
- Extensive experience leading sourcing activity
- Extensive experience managing high value procurement category contracts
- Contract Management best practice
- Working knowledge of the legal environment related to purchasing contracts and framework agreements within the defence sector
- Understanding of Market Trends
- Value Engineering/Cost Reduction
Experience of Direct Procurement in a defence or similar industry eg automotive, aerospace preferred.
What we're looking for in you
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Well-developed analytical/problem solving/decision making skills.
Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment.
Stakeholder management skills.
Location: Govan/Glasgow
Rate: £33.62 per hour
Inside IR35
AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.