KAPPTURE

Procurement

• Own the complete supplier lifecycle — from identification and onboarding through to renewal or exit — with a relentless focus on performance, cost efficiency, quality, and risk transfer.
• Negotiate robust contracts that push liability, warranty obligations, delivery risk, and demand fluctuation responsibility onto suppliers wherever commercially feasible.
• Enforce service level agreements and performance KPIs, holding suppliers to account through regular review meetings and corrective action plans.
• Reduce dependency on single suppliers through planned multi-sourcing, ensuring resilience and competitive tension in all key categories, including hardware manufacturing.
• Eliminate underperforming or high-cost suppliers, replacing them with proven high-quality alternatives.
• Maintain a live, centralised contract register with critical dates, commercial terms, and renewal triggers to avoid missed opportunities.
• Lead competitive tenders and RFP processes, ensuring maximum value for money and alignment with business requirements.
• Continuously scan the market for emerging suppliers, technologies, and cost-saving opportunities.
• Lead procurement strategy for Kappture-specific hardware, transitioning manufacturing from current China-based suppliers to one or more UK-based third parties under multi-sourced agreements to ensure resilience, quality, and cost competitiveness.
• Ensure complete transfer of manufacturing, warranty, delivery, and demand-variability risk to contracted suppliers.
• Manage global procurement of goods, services, software, and hardware to secure best value without compromising quality or delivery.
• Implement rigorous procurement governance, spend controls, and multi-sourcing approaches to prevent supply chain disruption.
• Negotiate volume discounts, preferential pricing, and extended payment terms to improve cash flow and profitability.
• Maintain category strategies that balance cost savings with supply resilience, quality assurance, and supplier diversity.
• Structure supplier agreements to absorb peaks and troughs in demand, avoiding cost exposure to Kappture during low-activity periods.
• Optimise freight, logistics, and import/export processes to minimise landed cost and lead times.
• Deliver clear spend analysis, savings tracking, and procurement dashboards to the CCO.
• Source, pre-qualify, and manage subcontractors for installation projects, ensuring technical competence, cost-effectiveness, and quality of work.
• Negotiate and enforce subcontractor agreements with clear deliverables, penalties for non-performance, and strict adherence to timelines.
• Maintain a high-performing pool of approved subcontractors for rapid mobilisation on new projects.
• Audit subcontractor work on-site to confirm it meets quality, specification, and safety requirements.
• Ensure subcontractor agreements transfer delivery scheduling risk and any cost impact of demand variability away from Kappture.
• Enforce compliance with legal, regulatory, and ethical procurement standards globally.
• Develop and maintain a supplier risk register, tracking potential disruptions, financial stability, geopolitical issues, and compliance gaps.
• Drive supplier-led innovation to enhance quality, reduce cost, and shorten delivery timelines.
• Benchmark procurement practices against industry leaders and adopt best-in-class methods.

Supplier, Contract & Procurement Manager