Sourcing Engineer (strategic)
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Job Type | Permanent |
Location | Royston |
Area | Cambridgeshire, England |
Sector | Manufacturing - Procurement |
Salary | £35000 - £48000 per annum |
Currency | GBP |
Start Date | ASAP |
Advertiser | Tom Davies |
Job Ref | ER1357TDa |
- Description
- Sourcing Engineer (strategic)
Working for an expanding hi-tech engineering organisation this position will play a vital role in ensuring supply chain is optimised to support some ambitious growth plans. The product range is low volume automated machinery so from a procurement point of view you will take responsibility for sourcing relevant suppliers using the latest manufacturing technologies on a global scale.
The right candidate will be someone with strong data analysis and commodity strategy and has worked in a manufacturing environment. Candidates with experience in fabrication, injection moulding or Die casting would be very beneficial.
Other day to day responsibilities will include:
- Taking ownership of the supplier management cycle and proposing cost analysis and models to support strategic procurement objectives.
- Work with global supply chain team members to develop negotiation strategies and deliver material cost savings.
- Drive forward cross functional team members to work on margin improvement activities.
- Provide guidance to engineering teams before design engineering decisions are made.
- Take a proactive approach in identifying opportunities for value enhancement to deliver maximum product availability and cost efficiency.
- Proven experience of purchasing and sourcing experience working in a hi-tech engineering environment.
- A strong understanding of manufacturing and lean methodologies would be highly desirable.
- An understanding of design for manufacture.
- Experience of working with suppliers on a global scale.
- SAP experience would be desirable.
- CIPs qualified