Purchasing Manager - VR/29477
Purchasing Manager required on a permanent basis for a provider to the offshore energy sector based. The role is full-time permanent position.
As Purchasing Manager, your responsibility is to coordinate purchasing of direct/indirect and provision of repairable parts, to satisfy stock models, urgent requirements and scheduled maintenance events.
Duties and Responsibilities include:
- Coordinating the purchase and provision of goods to maintain stock levels and satisfying requirements.
- Planning parts provisioning including rent, lease, and purchase.
- Minimising costs whilst adhering to a safe efficient supply and promoting this awareness to staff.
- Communicating changing lead times and non-availability of parts to other managers as appropriate.
- Ensuring activities are satisfactorily undertaken to support core returns, and repairs.
- Ensuring that all duties commensurate with the roles are managed effectively.
- Managing performance of all purchasing staff.
- Ensuring that all training and development needs of the staff are met.
- Ensuring that the department is resourced appropriate to fulfil the needs of the department efficiently.
- Informing the operations daily of an update on the movement of critical parts.
- Liaising with Accounts Payable to ensure correct and timely payment of invoices.
- Liaising with Fleet Management to ensure Bristow’s supply contracts are effective and cost efficient.
- Liaising with Inventory & Planning Manager to identify excess and surplus stock, and future requirements.
- Liaising with Maintenance Planning organisation to coordinate the timely receipt of components and parts.
- Developing and managing relationships with suppliers and repair and overhaul providers.
- Carrying out vendor auditing and scoring in compliance with the supply chain manual.
- Carrying out supplier visits to support audit program.
- Creating and maintaining strategic relationships with vendors to minimise financial planning risk.
- Working with Compliance to review NCRs associated with supply of parts and Monitor supplier performance.
Applicants to this role require:
- Experience of working in a purchasing environment.
- CIPS preferred.
- Experience in technical purchasing and contracts.
- Experience in managing a team.
- Ability to articulate, summarize, and present information clearly to audiences with different backgrounds and at different levels of the company.
- Ability to manage multiple projects efficiently and coordinate common resources.
- Ability to interface well with leadership, management and internal and external clients.
- Ability to assigns tasks and responsibilities to others and provide clear instruction and direction.
- Weighing alternatives, considering both short and long-term effects and then being resolute in the decisions they make.
- Problem analysis and problem-solving ability is required to ensure solutions are determined.
- Highly collaborative, works with all stakeholders to deliver results and keep others informed.
- Ability to travel as this position will require 15% travel.
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