Purchasing Lead

at  Emeco

Due to some exciting business growth, we are seeking a Purchasing Lead to join our friendly team in Osborne Park.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of both centralised and remote purchasing officers and support staff to deliver timely and efficient purchasing of equipment, materials, supplies, and services across multiple business units. The position is expected to demonstrate a broad-based knowledge of all aspects of the procure to pay process, as well as optimise process efficiency using continuous improvement methodologies and tools.

• Drive performance, culture and align with the company strategy and governance standards.
• Adherence to Strategic Procurement framework, including key sourcing strategy, directing spend to preferred suppliers, quality management and performance measurements.
• Develop and improve team performance across the function to ensure optimal performance at lowest transactional cost.
• Develop and implement training on correct purchasing process for the purchasing team and wider business.
• Optimise workload distribution, and priorities of the team by monitoring workload and assignment of the appropriate tasks to the right skillsets.
• Contribute to the management of the supplier base through administration of the supplier on boarding process as well as active review of the supplier list to maintain cost targets and efficiency.
• Monitor, analyse and manage performance against agreed benchmarks utilising agreed KPI’s and reporting mechanisms. Advise management on any potential issues and recommend remedial actions or solutions.
• Develop and recommend systems, process, flow chart improvements to increase compliance, contractor efficiency and cost effectiveness across all sites.
• Ensure key meetings and work procedures are properly documented and institutionalised.
• Promote the image of Emeco Group businesses with the vendor base.
• Resolve complaints and queries.
• Foster trust relationships with internal stakeholders to ensure maximum business penetration of procurement initiatives.
• Collaborate with operations and planning regularly on demand, and bottlenecks.
• Process new contracts and monitor contract renewals to ensure adequate time for appropriate renewal action.