Permanent
Procurement Specialist - Indirect
Inchinnan
Company bonus + benefits

Procurement Specialist - Indirect

Ref: 61| Posted: 22nd Jan 2024

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Terumo Aortic are currently looking to recruit a Procurement Specialist to join our team on a permanent basis. During a period of high growth for the business, this is an exciting role for someone that offers career development and working with a great team.

The main responsibilities of the role are;

  • Using benchmarking techniques, identify & introduce competition into the company supply base, evaluate responses from suppliers and select most competitive suppliers for order placement.
  • Review Service Level Agreements and negotiate price and Terms and conditions of each contract. 
  • Ensure that all new suppliers are appraised through relevant quality approval & evaluation system prior to inclusion on the company’s approved suppliers list (ASL).
  • Work with existing suppliers to develop continuous improvement programs to improve quality, reduce purchase cost and rationalise supply base.
  • Converting PR’s to PO’s ensuring correct supplier and best price is negotiated.
  • Develop and improve communication and relationship with the company’s supply base to ensure service level expectations are achieved.
  • Assist goods inwards personnel with any purchase order receipts queries.
  • Assist finance with any invoice queries.
  • Assist in the compilation of supplier performance scorecards to monitor and develop incumbent suppliers and ensure supplier adherence to SLA conditions & terms and conditions of purchase.
  • Conduct regular face to face meetings with suppliers on and off site. Although this requirement can be infrequent, visiting the supplier at their premises, mainly UK/Europe (although not restricted to this) is required to ensure the supplier is sustainable, increase our company's profile, improve communication and service level options.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement & development of the procurement function by constantly challenging processes and idea generation on a regular basis.
  • Hybrid working will be offered after successful probation and will be a minimum of 2 days on site each week but flexibility will be required due to business requirements. 

 

Qualifications & Experience;

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  • Be educated to HNC or HND standard, ideally with a CIPS level 3 or above qualification
  • Effective and articulate communicator.

 

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