PROCUREMENT DIRECTOR

Location: Rochester

Salary: Up to £90k depending on experience, with an attractive monthly car allowance package

What you’ll be doing:

• Management of the site’s direct material spend of c. £80m p.a.
• Leadership and development of the Procurement and Technical Supply Chain teams on site.
• Approval of sub-contract and material spend within delegated authority limits.
• Approval of material estimates in support of the business winning process.
• Leading and developing key supplier relationships at a senior level.
• Achievement of direct material and procurement labour budgets across development, production and support programmes.
• Availability of all direct material on time, to cost and to the right quality to meet all manufacturing requirements.
• Sub-contract management of supplier non-recurring development activities to meet programme requirements.
• Development and delivery of a functional strategy to ensure ongoing team and supply chain performance improvement.
• Putting in place material strategies that support the site’s long term business objectives.
• Procedural compliance in accordance with the site’s quality management system.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• We would expect the successful candidate to be able to demonstrate procurement, operational or programme management leadership experience in an equally challenging technical environment.
• This is a functional leadership role responsible for the management of a global supply chain supporting some of the most technically challenging avionic product development and production programmes in the world.
• Ability to influence and provide business direction outside of your immediate hierarchy.
• Ability to lead and motivate a large functional team (70+ people) to deliver business needs.
• Ability to critically analyse your own and your team’s performance to identify opportunities for, and to deliver improvement.

Desirable:

• Ability to build and maintain influential and mutually beneficial relationships at all levels within the business and its global supply chain.
• Ability to create and deliver strategies that support and enable delivery of the business plan.
• Ability to operate comfortably in a dynamic, technically challenging cross functional environment effectively balancing priorities and resources to meet all business needs and requirements.

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Procurement team:

You will join us to lead a functional team in support of our international mission to ‘protect those who protect us’. This will provide you an opportunity to determine and drive procurement & supply chain management strategy in a growing business supporting some of the world’s largest defence procurement programmes. You will also lead and develop senior level business relationships, managing a global supply chain developing and producing world class, advanced technology products.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”

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