Purchasing Manager for Strategic Role
Purchasing Manager is required by a highly successful mining company based in Osborne Park.
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.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and improve team performance across the function to ensure optimal performance at the lowest transactional cost.
- Optimise workload distribution, and priorities of the team by monitoring workload and assignment of the appropriate tasks.
- Contribute to the management of the supplier base through administration of the supplier in the 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 and reporting mechanisms.
- Develop and recommend systems, process, flow chart improvements to increase compliance, contractor efficiency and cost-effectiveness across all sites.
- Lead and manage the gathering of market intelligence and identification of new suppliers.
- Ensure key meetings and work procedures are properly documented and institutionalised.
- Conduct audits of potential and current suppliers to guarantee an optimum supplier base.
- Resolve complaints and queries.
- 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.
Skills and Experience:
- Significant experience in purchasing, procurement, or contract administration.
- Experience and knowledge of the mining equipment industry.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Strong time management skills and ability to plan and forecast.
- Can identify and facilitate effective high-level customer and stakeholder relationships.
- Concern for high standards of consistency and integrity in procurement practices.
This is a permanent role based in Osborne Park and is paying a salary between $130 - $150k + super.
**What you need to do now**
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.
2851107