Procurement Manager
- Employer
- Eaton
- Location
- Wimborne Minster, United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 8 Feb 2025
View more categoriesView less categories
- Specialist Area
- Procurement
- Job Level
- Manager
- Sector
- Electronics
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- CIPS Membership
- Non CIPS member
You need to sign in or create an account to save a job.
Join Eaton and be a part of our commitment to providing impactful, energy-efficient solutions that shape a sustainable future. At Eaton, we make what matters work, and we're dedicated to fostering a workplace where ethics, inclusion, diversity, and our people are at the forefront.
What you'll do:
What you'll do:
- Responsible for scoping, designing, the implementation and management of the total product supply chain throughout the product lifecycle process - from Bid stage through development and qualification/certification, to production and through life support. Meet cost and timing elements of the business case through creation and management of:
- Programme supply chain requirements e.g. schedule, technical, commercial and quality requirement flow downs
- With cross-functional stakeholders, developing the supply chain design including the supply base, Make vs Buy, condition of supply, kitting/tiering, etc
- Generating robust material cost models and NRC costs inc. timing of implementation for all elements of the product B.O.M
- Ensuring supply chains are in place that enable the products to be supported through life, particularly post serial manufacture - involving supplier transitions, product support agreements, sourcing and obsolescence management
- Supply Chain Requirements Capture & Flowdown
- Management of supply chain inputs to bids within product portfolio (cost, schedule, risk, opportunities & commercial terms)
- Supply Chain requirements capture - technical, commercial, financial, schedule & quality
- Design external supply chain to integrate into product manufacturing plan
- Supply Chain requirement flowdown from above, through well-defined work packages
- Determine whether supply chains can be developed to support product opportunities at initial Bid/No Bid decision gate
- Creates/manages procurement plans to ensure programme compliance to requirement and business case from initial bid, through delivery to through life support
- Commercial Requirements Management and Compliance
- Customer Commercial requirements capture and flowdown to the supply base
- Compliance with customer flow-downs - offset, FARs & DFARs, quality requirements, etc
- Delivery - Supply Chain Cost & Schedule Management
- Continuous improvement projects to improve processes, and product quality cost and delivery metrics
- Responsible for delivery of all established programme objectives in supply chain via work packages, to cost and schedule
- Accountable for determining cost and implementation schedule for product level supply chains
- Understand critical dependencies impacting the schedule, including internal and supplier dependencies and manage any escalations accordingly
- Embed supply chain implementation schedule into overall programme schedule.
- Establish and manages risk and opportunity plans
- Drives cost/schedule compliance for all supply chain work packages being delivered in the product B.O.M throughout the lifecycle; and any other Procurement budgets
- Ideally a graduate in a Technical, Procurement and/or Programme Management field(s)
- CIPS, IACCM and/or APM qualifications or equivalent desirable
- Experience of designing and re-designing supply chains, in conjunction with operations
- Experience of strategic supply chain/ category management
- Project/Programme management: desirable to have knowledge of development/qualification programmes, production and through life support
- Commercial and financial acumen, with experience of successfully negotiating complex contractual requirements
- Understanding of Lifecycle Management Processes / Engineering Design Gates
- Good team working skills - experience of working in a matrix organisation to deliver new products
- Supply chain design skills - e.g. setting up new suppliers/multiple supply chains, supplier transition, dual sourcing, supplier performance management
- Strategic sourcing experience - Improving QCD metrics & reducing risk through
- Programme management skill set - requirements capture, flow down, project planning
- Schedule management - hold people to account to tasks, management of dependencies
- Change management - scope change, technical/commercial change
- Commercial acumen - awareness of different types of customer and supplier contract requirements, achieving compliance, knowledge of ITAR/TINA/DFARs/FARs/offset desirable
- Influencing skills; persuasively present thoughts and ideas; gain commitment and ensure support for proposed ideas
- Inter personal skills, creates open environment for team working, problem solving and improvements
- Self starter capable of reviewing the 'current state', identifying improvement & executing initiatives
You need to sign in or create an account to save a job.
Get job alerts
Create a job alert and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.
Create alert