Procurement Section Head

About the Job

• Overall responsibility for Purchasing and cost estimating activities across the business.
• Create and implement best practice purchasing vision, strategy, policies processes and procedures to aid and improve business performance.
• Ensure that purchasing strategies and processes are in place to meet business objectives and operational needs in terms of price, quality and delivery targets.
• Take ownership of the purchasing policy, guidelines, and any associated documents.
• Negotiate contract terms with key suppliers to ensure value for money quality standards and delivery terms with technical and operational input from stakeholders if appropriate.
• Forecast price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power.
• Ensure professional and consistent supplier management is applied across the supply base in line with the purchasing policy.
• Input and hold responsibility for purchasing and cost estimating budgets.
• Prepare the annual Purchasing budget and forecast, and all the capital Expenditure proposals as well as ensuring compliance with customer and legal requirements. Manage the budget from identification to completion of projects.