Procurement Planning Control Representative sourcing, purchasing, and scheduling materials for shipbuilding. Collaborating with production teams to ensure material availability and quality standards.
About the role
- Lead, motivate and develop the purchasing team to achieve their goals.
- Following people processes including setting clear objectives, conducting performance reviews, and fostering a high-performance team ethic.
- Structure the team to ensure they are best aligned to the business and workloads.
- Participate in the rollout of a new Finance platform, including purchasing workflows.
- Help define purchase and fulfillment procedures, ensuring documentation is up to date.
- Ensure the team follow specific supplier work instructions, as defined by vendor managers, to maximise margin.
- Identify and deliver ways to improve KPI performance, refining and updating processes.
- Verifying requisition requests meet business rules.
- Raise purchase orders ensuring approval matrix has been followed.
- Place orders with preferred suppliers, including any supplier specific procedures defined by vendor managers to ensure we buy in the most efficient way possible.
- Build relationships with your peers in key suppliers, and establish any reviews needed to facilitate the purchasing process and escalations.
- Own and manage critical purchasing escalations within ARO and our supplies.
- Maintain accurate purchase, fulfillment and supplier records in appropriate systems.
- Track order progress, updating requestor with progress.
- Identify mitigations or alternatives where there are material fulfillment delays.
- Record order information accurately in systems.
- Meet overall team targets, and ensure team members meet personal targets for; Purchase cycle time, on-time fulfillment, cost per purchase order, purchase updates per order.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in purchase management, or a related role.
- Demonstrable experience of implementing change i.e. setting up a new team, business process, or material improvement.
- Good understanding of the end to end purchasing process from requisition to fulfilment.
- Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system tools for purchasing administration e.g. MS Dynamics Finance and Operations, SAP, Oracle.
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
- High attention to detail to ensure data accuracy and right first time purchasing.
- Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, IT, or a related field. Equivalent practical experience may be considered.
- Familiarity with vendor management and procurement software.
- Certification in Procurement or Supply Management (e.g., CPSM).
Benefits
- Company Pension Scheme and matching contributions
- Company Perks portal
- Private Medical insurance
- Life assurance
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus holiday trading
- Your Birthday off, on us!
- Health Club and Wellbeing Scheme
- Aro Shares after 12 months employment
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Technical Training Academy and E-learning
- Hybrid working
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