Purchase Project Lead

Procurement Project Lead  

SF Recruitment are working with an innovative automotive business who are engaged in some exciting manufacturing projects, to recruit a procurement project lead. High value, low volume, bespoke manufacturing environment.

Job Purpose: 

To be the conduit between the Special Projects, Purchasing & Engineering teams. To represent the requirements of the business, and scope of the project, to both Engineering & Purchasing whist maintaining project costs, and evolution of deliverables, to report out to the Senior Management Team, & Board, when required. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Identify Project scope, alongside Special Projects Manager. 
• Compile project deliverables, from Purchasing & Engineering, alongside Special Projects Manager. 
• Weekly meetings, with Engineers, to ensure Purchasing are represented during Engineering phase of project scope, thus enabling supplier selection to be from current, and future, supply base.  
• Facilitate prototype sourcing to meet early build phases 
• Ensures supplier nominations are on time and to budget 
• Weekly meetings, with Buyers, to feed all project requirements into Purchasing & ensure correct supplier selection, for project scope.  
• To represent all costs within the project team from conception, through all gateways, to final build. 
• To monitor, record & maintain cost due to Engineering changes for all suppliers.  
• To process all PCNs once the Buyers have approved the supplier selection & cost.  
• Following supplier selection, maintain supplier relationships and review weekly project status, with team & Supplier.  
• Escalate any issues to Special Projects, Purchasing & Engineering Manager to ensure swift resolution.  
• Identify potential long lead time items (and other purchasing related risks) at the planning stages of a project and develop mitigation strategies accordingly. 
• Maintain appropriate levels of project documentation on behalf of Purchasing and look for opportunities to improve the overall process and associated tools. 
• Report out, to the business, the project status when required. 

Skillset requirements:

• Strong Project/NPI procurement experience within a manufacturing environment.  
• Automotive experience desirable but not essential  
• Project mgmt. skillset within an engineering environment