Procurement Manager

6 days ago


Boston, Massachusetts, United States Orbia Full time

About Orbia

Orbia is a global company that advances life around the world by creating innovative solutions for the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Our purpose is to advance life by creating solutions that deliver clean water, secure food supplies, and reliable information, while also steering material advances that power the future of green and smart cities, transportation, and healthcare.

Main Responsibilities

  • To deliver the procurement requirements across the company's operations in the UK and EU, providing a value-adding, effective and efficient service to internal customers across various sites and offices.
  • To support the delivery of business strategy and objectives through cost-effective procurement of raw materials, goods, spares, and services while complying with all applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.
  • To line manage a Procurement Officer to ensure their day-to-day activities are fully developed, allowing them to maximize their contribution to the business.
  • To develop relationships with key stakeholders to understand and deliver their requirements, acting as a partner to deliver business objectives while minimizing costs and maximizing value.
  • To work closely with the EMEAI Procurement Manager to develop the UK & EU engineering and non-engineering goods and services procurement strategies, identifying opportunities for improvement in the area of responsibility.
  • To provide support to the EMEAI Procurement Manager to develop and implement the engineering purchasing processes, procedures, contractual standards, and commercial relationships, ensuring end-user requirements are delivered and supplier relationships are established, maintained, monitored, developed, and improved.
  • To manage the appraisal, selection, and negotiation with appropriate suppliers for the procurement of engineering materials and services of medium complexity to meet the business's commercial and technical needs, ensuring they are purchased upon optimal terms and conditions.
  • To develop supplier relationships and ensure suppliers are managed and their performance monitored and improved.

Qualifications

Minimum:

CIPS qualified or demonstrable experience.

Knowledge/Experience Required:

  • In-depth experience of delivering in a Senior Procurement Officer or equivalent role.
  • Experience of mentoring and managing people.
  • In-depth understanding of commercial and purchasing systems and procedures.
  • A working knowledge of Supplier and Contractor Management.
  • Strong negotiation skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to develop relationships across a range of stakeholders.
  • Strong IT skills, experience of purchasing systems, including SAP, and Microsoft office packages, with expertise using Excel.

Behaviors that can help you succeed at Orbia:

  • Develop yourself & Others
  • Foster Collaboration & Inclusion
  • Drive Results
  • Provide Vision & Direction


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