Group Strategic Sourcing Category Manager Electronics

Are you an experienced procurement professional looking for a new challenge Oxford Instruments is currently seeking a Group Strategic Sourcing Category Manager to join our dynamic this role you will have the opportunity to develop and lead business relationships both externally with suppliers and internally across our Group Business Units.

Reporting to the Group Senior Category Manager you will build strong working relationships with various stakeholders including Managing Directors Operations Directors Engineering & NPD Directors Financial Directors supply chain managers business unit buyers and engineering managers.

As the GSS Category Manager your main responsibility will be to provide strategic sourcing leadership to the Oxford Instruments Group businesses. You will drive projects across assigned categories to minimize cost and risk while maximizing quality service and sustainability. Collaborating with business unit leaders and managing cross-functional teams you will develop value-adding projects for the allocated categories and ensure their execution aligns with OIs strategies. Additionally you will work with Engineering leaders to design develop and implement a Group-wide Category Strategy. It is crucial that all activities are in line with Group Strategic Sourcing policies and procedures and you will be responsible for completing Business Approval Forms to ensure project governance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Group Senior Category Manager in achieving business goals through best practice sourcing and supply chain processes.
• Drive cost improvement and special projects related to the appropriate categories.
• Take ownership of key supplier relationships performance commercial agreements and LTAs.
• Manage Electronic & other associated categories.
• Plan category sourcing strategies and implementation activities in alignment to the higher-level group sourcing strategy.
• Lead cross-functional activities with suppliers including value engineering design to cost activities and NPI early engagement/development.
• Drive continuous improvement of sourcing practices and efficiencies within the assigned category.
• Coordinate with Business Leaders managers and functional teams to implement strategies consistently.
• Collaborate with all functions within the business to ensure suppliers provide maximum value utilizing a cross-functional team approach.
• Develop maintain and report on supplier/spend financial performance and projections.
• Monitor supplier KPIs ensuring consistent delivery to prescribed levels of service within the LTA.
• Manage the Group Approved Vendor List.
• Be accountable for category management including supplier selection and strategy setting for assigned categories.
• Provide leadership and governance of cross-functional team meetings and communication.
• Implement procurement processes within the business including supplier quality service relationships and performance.
• Manage materials and/or services spend within the business.
• Handle contracting contract management and risk assessment/mitigation.

Person Specification: To be successful in this role you should have the following essential requirements:

• Experience within Electronics procurement with a strong technical and market understanding.
• Experience within procurement functions preferably in handling highly technical categories.
• Experience with complex outsourcing projects up to and including system level.
• Experience in developing supplier strategies in complex and technical categories.
• Proven success in delivering NPI Design for Value and cost improvement projects with new supplier development activities.
• Understanding of sourcing policies and procedures.
• Strategic and analytical mindset with good researching skills.
• Understanding of commercial and financial aspects of direct/indirect procurement.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Ability to influence diverse groups of people and resolve conflicts tactfully.
• Knowledge of business environment and requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to work and build supplier relationships.
• Results-oriented proactive and dynamic with a sense of urgency.
• Knowledge of Compliance requirements within Electronics category.
• Understanding of business Sustainability and how that need to be applied within the supply chain.
• Strong analytical skills for understanding complex BOM structures & quote review etc
• Business process standardisation and ability to follow & develop processes internally and externally.

Education/Qualifications:

• Ideally degree educated in a related field.
• MCIPs preferred but not essential.

Professional Skills/Abilities:

• Greater than 5 years experience within sourcing and procurement.
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
• Highly commercial with a proven ability to use Procurement skills to unlock value for the business.
• Ability to work within technical teams and topics.
• Delivery-focused with a pragmatic hands-on approach that enables strategies to be fully executed.
• Strong commercial and business acumen with strong negotiation skills.

Excellent project management people and negotiation skills. At Oxford Instruments we enable the worlds leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. With a sixty-year history and fourteen Queens Awards for Enterprise our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race colour religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or disability.

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