Morson is delighted to be working in partnership with a market leading Aerospace organisation to recruit a Procurement Professional for an initial 12 month duration. There is a rate of 22 PAYE Per hour or 29.47 Umbrella Per Hour on offer for the successful candidate.  The role would offer hybrid working with 3-4 days a week spent onsite in Glasgow and 1-2 days working from home.

Please find the job spec. below:

The role holder will:

- Provide Procurement expertise and deliver a range of activities from shipbuild systems, equipment, parts, raw material and subcontract onsite services.
- Managing Supplier performance and improvement activities, including proactive risk and opportunity management and developing, maintaining and managing stakeholders
- Execution of the end-to-end Procurement process e.g. delivery of information, products and services to quality, cost and schedule requirements. -
- The role will likely report into the Supply Chain Manager or Principal Procurement Professional

Duties & Responsibilities:

- Through LCM, plan, control, execute and monitor all in-scope transactional procurement and contracting activity with minimal supervision
- Undertake and support the team in Supplier assessment and due diligence activity to ensure the effective selection of suppliers to meet business needs in line with quality, cost and delivery KPI’s
- Adapt approach to ensure that negotiations are concluded for an optimised business outcome
- Develop, agree and implement the Procurement strategies and promote cross functional collaboration to ensure full, thorough engagement and buy-in to contracting strategies
- Lead the timely identification, analysis and resolution of internal and external issues which may potentially affect the supply of material for Programme requirements – escalating when appropriate
- Manage Supplier risk, seek out, identify and deliver opportunities for continuous improvement and cost savings
- Record and report cost savings / cost avoidance and deliver ongoing cost analysis including EAC work and robust contract management feeding into the Control Account Management structure
- Undertake the continuous review of Supplier performance and development activities using business Key Performance Indicator’s to ensure requirements are met to secure improvements and inform future Procurement strategy
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to optimise engagement at all times
- Maintain Procurement systems with quality, accurate information relating to the procurement activity and in accordance with the Document Management Policy and process
- Be an advocate of the Procurement function
- Support less experienced members of the team to manage their workload and identify development needs Budget Responsibilities
- Professional knowledge/understanding of Procurement principles, techniques and practices
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Contract Management in a Supply Chain environment in defence or similar industry e.g. automotive, aerospace
- Awareness of legal environment related to purchasing contracts and framework agreement

Skills:
- Good negotiation and influencing skills -internal colleagues, Engineering, PM, Operations, Quality functions, Suppliers and 3rd Party Providers
- Good supplier and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
- Able to identify and manage Risk & Opportunities
- Financial spend management
- Ability to work under own initiative and prioritise as appropriate
- Proficient in the use of standard Microsoft packages and business systems

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