Director of Purchasing

at  Brookwood Recruitment

Would you like to join a Global Automotive Tier 1 who have an excellent reputation and a great working culture?
The Director of Procurement has the global responsibility to provide leadership and direction for all procurement activities related to Direct Materials across all plants and Business Units.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing enterprise-wide leadership and direction for direct commodity procurement that includes plastic resin and components.
• Responsible for leading a team of procurement professionals.
• Leads the development of commodity specific strategies partnering with product engineering and program management teams specifically focused on cost, supplier and contract management.
• Establishes commodity specific KPIs and performance metrics and measures performance consistent with business needs.
• Leads supplier evaluation and procurement contract negotiations for timely execution of programs.

Experience Required:

• University Degree in Business or Engineering.
• Must have minimum of 5 years’ experience developing and managing a procurement team within OEM/Tier 1 automotive manufacturing environment.
• Solid understanding of automotive manufacturing operations is key to success in this role.
• Must have good understanding of automotive program launch process, ideally advance procurement and supporting program launches.
• Prior experience working in a multi-site operations/manufacturing setting highly desirable.

• Responsible for providing enterprise-wide leadership and direction for direct commodity procurement that includes plastic resin and components.
• Responsible for leading a team of procurement professionals.
• Leads the development of commodity specific strategies partnering with product engineering and program management teams specifically focused on cost, supplier and contract management.
• Establishes commodity specific KPIs and performance metrics and measures performance consistent with business needs.
• Leads supplier evaluation and procurement contract negotiations for timely execution of programs