An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Procurement Engineer to work for a global defence company based in Samlesbury. This role sits within the General Systems Value team, managing a number of strategic and critical suppliers.

Key duties will include;
- Negotiating Terms and Conditions, Price Agreements and other contractual documents with suppliers, and resolve most areas of conflict.
- Maintaining strong, effective relationships with suppliers.
- Develop innovative, value for money solutions with the supplier/s to meet Customers’ current and future requirements.
- Understanding the budget requirements for the Purchase Orders as well as identify opportunities for cost reduction/avoidance through effective negotiation with the suppliers.
- Attend key meetings including on-site supplier reviews
- Interface across the Air business and with other teams and functions, e.g. PM, Engineering, Commercial, Finance.
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the product or service provision meets the governance requirements of the business and our customers.
- Manage order book reviews with internal stakeholders and the suppliers, presenting order status, supporting resolutions to order related queries as requested by the internal stakeholder:
- Maintain data in appropriate ERP systems
- Utilise business reporting/metrication capability in order to articulate and manage Order Book Management performance. Ensure trends are identified and escalated, as appropriate.
- Ensure queries are owned and managed effectively.
- Understand and comply to the Procurement processes (Supplier Management Framework).

There may be some travel to Suppliers as and when required.

Knowledge:
- A Continuous Improvement mind-set with proven examples of identifying new ideas that drive improvement, problem solving and working collaboratively with others to identify a solution ideally within a Procurement (or similar) environment
- Detailed understanding and experience of supplier risk and opportunity management

Skills:
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, fostering close & trusting relationships with a network of demanding internal and external stakeholders
- Negotiation skills – experience of price and contractual terms and conditions negotiations
- Working understanding of tool sets and IT such as ERP systems, Microsoft Office programs particularly in Excel.
- Ability to compile data, analyse and propose recommendations through reports and presentations

- CIPS qualification would be an advantage

Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.

Buyer; vendor management; supply chain; procurement; purchasing; supplier management; risk management; negotiation; supplier performance; purchase orders; ERP systems; MS Office; influencing skills; shipping; ITAR; spares and repairs; RFQ; invoicing; SAP; Order book management