Site Procurement Engineering Lead with procurement experience in an electro-mechanical / manufacturing environment required by medical devices multinational in North Dublin
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree (Level 8) in Engineering or related Science discipline
- 8+ years’ experience in a manufacturing environment
- Experience in a Procurement Engineering role within an electro-mechanical manufacturing environment
- Broad-based commodity experience – suppliers, materials, technologies, manufacturing processes – across a range of commodities
- Solid financial reporting capabilities, being able to collate and analyze large amounts of data for decision making and reporting
- Experience of operating as part of a site cross-functional team
- Experience managing stakeholder relationships
- Experience reporting up to senior management level
- Excellent oral communications, business writing and presentation skills
- Willing to travel up to 10%
- An established commercial mindset and the ability to assess and conclude business agreements with suppliers
- Strong collaboration, influencing, and project management skills, and the ability to drive supplier change projects with cross-functional partners to conclusion
- Proven negotiation and influencing skills with suppliers, with demonstrative results in securing competitive pricing and overall terms and conditions
- Record of establishing strong and influential business relationships with internal functions and suppliers to achieve business objectives
- Understanding of various supplier manufacturing technologies and processes, supplier controls and industry standards
- Experience of conducting supplier evaluation, approval, and onboarding exercises
- Driven, self-directing, goal oriented and able to prioritize workload in an agile environment
Responsibilities:
- Lead and devel the Site Productivity Program, driving achievement of key cost targets and reporting to senior management levels
- Develop an active pipeline of Productivity ideas to achieve annual objectives
- Participate in negotiations and value engineering initiatives with suppliers to reduce costs
- Work with Commodity Management to identify and implement supplier changes to reduce costs, improve performance and optimize parts/supplier allocations
- Conduct RfQ competitive exercises to identify lowest TCoO sources for the business
- Project manage major part resourcing activities in a structured and controlled manner
- Promote the use of Early Supplier Involvement through DtC (design to cost) and DfMA (design for manufacturing & assembly) approaches with suppliers and design teams
- Support NPI and engineering design change activities to optimize part/technology/supplier decisions
- Identify supplier risk situations and work with site functions and Commodity Management to implement risk mitigation strategies
- Contribute to the overall performance improvement of the supply base
emer@emtechrecruitment.ie
