Hybrid Purchasing Team Lead

at ARO Technology

• Job title: Purchasing Team Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: ERP, Oracle
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Liverpool, United Kingdom

About the role

• Purchasing Team Leader at ARO to develop processes and lead a purchasing team in Liverpool. Overseeing vendor orders and managing a team of purchasing administrators.

Responsibilities

• 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