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Procurement Manager

February 15, 2019 | Comments Off on Procurement Manager

Position: Procurement Manager

Location: Dublin

Salary: Neg Doe

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Manage the Purchase Order process across the company portfolio
  • Manage the search process for local suppliers of services, utilities, machinery and equipment
  • Negotiate and agree best price on all products purchased
  • Develop creative solutions for cost reduction and continuous improvement of purchasing processes and procedures
  • Maintaining supplier records; sending supplier set-up forms and analysing the documents returned for full completion. Implementing checks to current records for passing to finance for payment.
  • Liaising with suppliers from around the world to source and purchase the necessary components always ensuring quality and delivery date are achieved.
  • Placing purchase orders according to established policies and procedures.
  • Following up on supplier purchase orders, and regular generation of supplier forecasts.
  • Managing the critical path and ensuring key dates are met, highlighting any issues to the contracts manager.
  • Supporting finance and all other internal departments with any queries.
  • Preparing documentation for reporting at regular supply chain meetings; evaluating supplier performance and reliability through formal reporting with defined metrics of quality, delivery and performance.
  • Tracking and coordinating with logistics for inbound shipments.

The Successful Candidate:

  • You have 2+ years' previous experience in construction purchasing.
  • You have Leaving cert/or equivalent Third Level Certification.
  • You have excellent communication skills and attention to detail.
  • You are a highly organised, smart, energetic, enthusiastic person with attention to detail when performing tasks.
  • You have the ability to anticipate and manage problems with a capability to prioritise and escalate where necessary.
  • You are proficient in MS Office and have strong IT Skills.

Qualifications:

  • Previous Purchasing experience in the Construction (or related) industry essential
  • 3-5 years' experience in a similar role
  • Extensive knowledge of SAGE packages and Microsoft Office
  • Position:
  • Immediate Start
  • Salary Negotiable
  • Deal with any adhoc request as requested

Personal Skills

  • High degree of personal motivation
  • Commercial acumen
  • Ability to work as part of a close-knit management team and manage numerous activities / projects simultaneously - both short and long term.
  • Ability to work on own initiative and with the minimum of supervision
  • Good negotiator
  • Flexibility with regard to working across all areas of the business, and hours to meet the requirements of this challenging position.

Preferred Skills

  • Good working knowledge of materials and products used within the different functions of construction industry
  • Driving licence
  • Good IT skills - particularly Word and Excel
  • Excellent communication skills

KPI's that are to be evaluated for this role

  • Tendering & Estimating
  • Client Satisfaction
  • Work Process
  • Environmental
  • Financial Awareness

If the position above is of interest to you and you would like to know more, send your cv today and one of our consultants will contact you in complete confidence.

INDHIGH

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