Purchasing Supervisor - VR/30912

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Purchasing Supervisor to join a well-established company based in Kintore. This permanent role offers hybrid working and a 37.5-hour working week. In this role, you’ll play a key part in ensuring the cost-effective and timely procurement of direct and indirect parts, as well as repairable components, supporting stock availability, urgent demands, and scheduled maintenance needs.

Duties and Responsibilities include:

1. Coordinating the purchase, provisioning (including rental, leasing, PBH agreements, and direct purchasing), and supply of parts to maintain stock levels and meet operational requirements.
2. Minimising costs while ensuring a safe, efficient supply chain, promoting cost-awareness among staff, and supporting core returns and repairs.
3. Communicating lead time changes and part availability issues to relevant managers, ensuring smooth operations.
4. Providing daily updates to operations on the movement of critical parts and liaising with Maintenance Planning to ensure timely receipt of components.
5. Collaborating with departments to ensure accurate and timely invoice payments.
6. Supervising employees, providing performance feedback, and ensuring training and development needs are met.
7. Developing and maintaining departmental KPIs, ensuring the team is adequately resourced to fulfil operational needs efficiently.
8. Building and managing relationships with suppliers, establishing strategic partnerships to minimise financial risks and improve supply chain stability.
9. Working with Compliance to review NCRs related to part supply and monitoring supplier performance.

Applicants to this role require:

1. Experience of working in a technical purchasing environment.
2. Experience of supervising a team.
3. Strong interpersonal skills, capable of building relationships and collaborating with leadership, management, and both internal and external stakeholders.
4. Fair and consistent in assigning tasks and responsibilities, providing clear instructions and guidance to others.
5. Decisive and analytical, weighing alternatives and considering both short and long-term implications before making resolute decisions.
6. Excellent problem-solving abilities, analysing issues effectively to determine and implement appropriate solutions.
7. Highly collaborative, working closely with all stakeholders to achieve results and ensuring that others are kept informed throughout the process.