Procurement Manager
Salary: £45,000 - £48,000 depending on experience
Stevenage
Headline Benefits: A bonus of up to £2,500, Paid Overtime, Strong pension, 25 days annual leave with the option to accrue 15 additional days flexi leave, enhanced parental leave.
We’re working with an award-winning, world-leading, technical & scientific engineering organisation, with sites across Europe, who have an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Manager who will join an Export Strategy & Industrial Participation team within a Major Equipment Procurement (MEP) department.
The Procurement Manager role:
MEP focus on the sourcing, contracting and supply of bespoke high-value / high-complexity sub-systems needed to deliver world-leading defence capabilities for our customers, and the MEP Export Strategy & Industrial Participation team focus on developing technology transfer and offset propositions between our MEP Suppliers and our Customers industrial base.
Upon joining the team, you will undertake a role with a considerable responsibility for proactively managing a diverse range of internal stakeholders, at all levels, together with external Supplier and stakeholder relationships.
This MEP role is unique, fast-paced and exciting, requiring a combination of commercial expertise and stakeholder management skills to support MEP business relationships, across a wide range of campaigns.
Industrial Cooperation and Offset
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Generate requests to the supply chain for proposals, outside of existing sector responsibilities to support objectives set by the International Industrial Cooperation team.
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Understand the MEP requirements and provide support to the generation of appropriate IIC strategy by the various IIC Regional domain leads
Export Sales
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Generate reports on export campaigns to the MEP New Business Teams and MEP Senior Leadership team through organization of Quarterly Export Reviews.
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Support the Export Win Team Leaders with industrial activities that benefit business winning, including working with strategic MEP partners to provide technical information and cost data.
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Ensure the commercial position is protected in the export environment, including working closely with Business Solutions Improvement (BS&I) and the National Compliance Officer (NCO) on ethical compliance/approvals for entities identified by IIC who may potentially form part of the industrial strategy.
Functional and Senior management support
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Organize the MEP UK Quarterly Export review, collating inputs from the various MEP Sector New Business Leads, IIC leads and SBD Win Team leaders and arrange for guest speakers on topics of interest.
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Act as the secretary for the MEP Export Approvals review, recording the approvals and noting any actions.
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Participate in the MEP New Business Community of Purpose representing ES&IP.
Procurement Manager experience required:
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A team player capable of influencing and managing multiple relationships, you should also be comfortable working and travelling autonomously when required.
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An assertive individual with a can-do attitude who continually seeks way to maximise on opportunities
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Degree-level academic qualifications (Law, Business, Economics, Commercial) or relative experience
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Experience in Contracting, Intellectual Property identification, etc
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An understanding of commercial constructs including contracts (prime and sub), requests for quotation, Statement of Works, Technical Requirement Specifications, Intellectual property valuation and Licensing (Royalties and Fees) etc.
The business are firm believers in offering all staff the best possible platform to succeed, providing support for career development as well as personal assistance. They hold numerous awards on the back of this work and have a range of employee networks and internal communities that include Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Gender Equality, Neurodiversity, Pride, Ethnic Diversity and many more. They really care about their staff and are passionate about what they do and why they do it.
Their order book stretches for many years, and they have healthy profits and a range of new projects in place. They’re stable with steady controlled growth, offer dynamic working, and fantastic opportunities to grow and develop your career further.
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