Purchasing Team Lead
ARO Technology
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Liverpool • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £35,000 - £40,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
ERPOracle
About the role
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
purchase managementbusiness process improvementpurchasing workflowsKPI performance improvementdata accuracyorder managementrequisition verificationsupplier managementpurchase order processingfulfillment procedures
Soft skills
leadershipmotivationteam developmentcommunicationcollaborationattention to detailprioritizationtask managementrelationship buildingproblem-solving
Certifications
CPSMProcurement certificationSupply Management certification