Supplier, Contract & Procurement Manager
KAPPTURE
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Derby • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £60,000 - £75,000 per year
Job Level
Junior
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- Proven success in supplier, subcontractor & contract management at a senior level
- Procurement management success at a senior level from strategy to implementation and management
- Demonstrable experience in successfully reducing costs and increasing profit
- Sound risk management experience
- Proven governance experience, illustrating the management of compliance with legal, regulatory, and ethical procurement standards globally
- Extensive experience in developing and managing procurement strategies and supplier agreements
- Experience in sourcing and transferring manufacturing suppliers
- Experience of building and managing a preferred, multi-sourced supplier network
- Experience of building and managing subcontractor agreements and deliverables
- A drive to continuously improve, with a focus on cost, quality, value, delivery & risk management
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven negotiation skills
- The ability and mindset to operate both strategically and operationally
- Be comfortable with acting with prescribed authority while minimising risk
- Commercially savvy and finance focussed
- Have a mind set which fits with our culture of creativity, collaboration, and inclusivity
- Ability to get on with and work at all levels within and outside the Company.
Benefits
- 25 days statutory holiday plus recognised public holidays
- Pension contributions
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
supplier managementcontract managementprocurement managementrisk managementcost reductionsupplier agreementsmulti-sourcingnegotiationspend analysisprocurement governance
Soft skills
communicationnegotiationstrategic thinkingoperational mindsetcreativitycollaborationinclusivityleadershipproblem-solvingadaptability